Nowak, Dale A.

Adele D. Nicholas has practiced extensively in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, as well as in the civil and criminal courts of Cook County, and the Illinois Court of Appeals. She is licensed to practice in the State of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She has also represented individuals before state and local administrative agencies.

Ms. Nicholas received her B.S. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and her law degree cum laude from the John Marshall Law School, where she was a member of the law review and active in moot court. In law school, she externed for Judge Alan J. Grieman of the Illinois Court of Appeals.

Previously, Ms. Nicholas was the managing editor of InsideCounsel magazine and a freelance legal journalist. She has authored more than 300 articles on important legal trends and significant cases. Ms. Nicholas is a member of the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association.