David R. Del Re - Waukegan, IL

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • University of Tulsa College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1998
    J.D.
    Law Journal: Tulsa Law Journal, Staff Member

• Non Legal Education

  • University of Illinois-Chicago
    B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

• Principal

• Founder

Past Positions

• Lake County State’s Attorneys Office, Assistant State’s Attorney, Chief of the Domestic Violence Courtroom
• Lake County State’s Attorneys Office, Intern and Supreme Court Rule 711 Intern

Classes and Seminars

• April 2025 – Speaker/Presenter, LCBA Family Law Seminar 2025, The Admissibility of Children’s Hearsay Statements, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  
• April 2019-Speaker/Presenter, LCBA Family Law Seminar 2019, Direct Examination, Cross Examination and Closing Arguments in a Relocation Case. Scottsdale, Arizona.
  
• Presenter, How To (and How Not To) Cross Examine 604.10 (b) and (c) Evaluators, LCBA Family Law Seminar, Charleston, South Carolina, April, 2018
  
• Presenter, New Local Rules of the 19th Judicial Circuit, LCBA Family Law Seminar, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April, 2017
  
• Panelist/Presenter, Testifying as a Guardian Ad Litem, 19th Judicial Circuit Child Representative Training, September, 2016
  
• Panelist/Presenter, Important Changes to ILCS 5/600-5/610.5 Involving All Aspects of Children, November, 2015
  
• Panelist, Lake County’s Family Law Committee Seminar, Domestic Violence, Orders of Protection and Social media, 2014
  
• Lecturer, Substitution of Judge for Cause regarding the Illinois Supreme Court case of In Re: The Marriage of O’Brien which tried at the Circuit level by David R. Del Re and briefed and argued with co-counsel, Mark Vogg, before the Illinois Supreme Court in January of 2010, Lake County’s Family Law Committee Seminar, Memphis TN, April, 2010
  
• Presenter, Orders of protections and custody cases with simultaneous criminal prosecutions, Lake County Criminal Committee Seminar, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November, 2009

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1998

Specialties and Certifications

• Certified Guardian ad litem, Child’s Representative through 2020
• Certified Guardian ad litem for Probate Cases through 2020

Other Affiliations

• Lake County Bar Association, 2018 - 2021 (Board Member)
• Lake County Bar Association, January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2021 (Judicial Selection and Retention Committee, Chair)
• Lake County Bar Association, January 1, 2014 - Present (Judicial Section and Retention Committee, Member)
• Lake County Justinian Society, 2010 - 2011 (Past President)
• Illinois State Bar Association (Member)
• Association of Woman Attorneys of Lake County (Member)
• Leading Lawyers Network (Member)
• American Inns of Court/Lake County, 1997 - Present (Member)
• Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Sustaining Member
• Ducks Unlimited