Weber, Glen R.

Glen R. Weber is an award-winning trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience as a prosecutor. He is a talented lawyer who now concentrates his practice on civil litigation and personal injury. He is a respected member of the Capital Litigation Trial bar and is qualified as a First Chair. He is also a member of the Knights of Columbus.

Glen graduated with Departmental Honors in Philosophy from Loyola University of Chicago in 1984. He graduated from Loyola University School of Law in 1987. He is admitted to practice in Illinois, and before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, where he is admitted to the trial bar.

In 2000, Glen was elected State's Attorney of Jo Daviess County, where he served as the top prosecutor until 2004. Glen tried 20 jury trials in Jo Daviess County, obtaining guilty verdicts in every trial. While State's Attorney, no taxpayer dollars were expended for judgments for acts that occurred while he was in office. As State's Attorney, Glen created, founded and was President of Tyler's Justice Center For Children, a Child Advocacy Center for the investigation of abused children. The Center was the First Advocacy Center serving Jo Daviess, Carroll and Stephenson counties.

In 2001, Glen was named State's Attorney of the year by the Illinois State Crime Commission. He has tried 131 jury trials, including Forty-Four First Degree Murder jury trials. Glen was an Assistant State's Attorney in Winnebago County and First Assistant State's Attorney in Boone County.

In 2001 and 2003, Glen was an instructor at the Capital Litigation seminar in Springfield, Illinois. He has also instructed prosecutors at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina.