LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Law Offices of Bradley R. Trowbridge, Chicago, IL

  • Specialize in serving clients with family law matters, including divorce, child support, child  custody, paternity, visitation, guardianship, adoption, and orders of protection.  
  • Represented over 500 victims of domestic violence.
  • Authored “Alternate Family Relations and Civil Unions in Illinois” book chapter for Illinois State Bar Association Family Law Handbook.

Domestic Violence Legal Clinic, Chicago, IL

  • Represented low-income victims of domestic violence in order of protection, dissolution of marriage and child custody cases.

Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, Chicago, IL

  • Represented indigent and disadvantaged clients in civil matters, including housing, public benefits, domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, bankruptcy and employment matters.

AIDS Legal Council, Chicago, IL 

  • Provided legal assistance to HIV positive individuals with discrimination cases, wills, powers of attorney and guardianship matters.

Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, Chicago, IL

  • Trained State’s Attorneys about Violence Against Women Act and Victims of Crime Act.

COUNSELING/SOCIAL SERVICE EXPERIENCE

Northwestern University Counseling Center, Evanston, IL

Horizons Community Services, Chicago, IL 

Counseling Center of Lakeview, Chicago, IL 

Parents Too Soon, IL Dept. of Public Health, Springfield, IL

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Board Memberships:

  • Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network
  • A New Direction

Volunteer Activities: 

  • Equality Illinois
  • Lakeview Neighbor Democrats
  • Democracy for America
  • AIDS Legal Council
  • The Humane Society
  • ALS Walk
  • Alzheimer’s Memory Walk
  • Center on Halsted
  • Planned Parenthood
  • Illinois Fatherhood Initiative
  • Illinois State Bar Association
  • Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association
  • Sierra Club
  • Illinois Safe Schools Alliance
  • Family Defense Center

EDUCATION

  • Illinois College of Law, Urbana, IL, J.D.
  • University of Illinois, Springfield, IL, M.A., Human Development Counseling
  • MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL, B.A., Psychology