JAMES G DIMEAS

James G. Dimeas is a Chicago and Schaumburg-based criminal defense lawyer who has spent the past 26 years concentrating his efforts in the practice of criminal law. James Dimeas concentrates his practice on handling criminal cases in Chicago, Cook County, DuPage County, Kane County, and Lake County, Illinois. James Dimeas is a life-long resident of the Chicago-area. James Dimeas is a 1985 graduate of Gordon Tech High School and a 1989 graduate of Loyola University of Chicago, having earned a Bachelor of Science degree. James Dimeas attended the Western Michigan University, Thomas Cooley Law School graduating in 1992 with a law degree. While attending Law School, James Dimeas helped teach Law classes at Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. Upon graduating from law school, James Dimeas took, and passed, the Illinois Bar Exam the same year and was sworn in as an Illinois lawyer in 1992. James Dimeas became a member of the General Bar for the Federal District Court the same year. In addition to the General Bar for the Federal Court in Chicago, James Dimeas is also a member of the Trial Bar for The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Admission to the Trial Bar for the Northern District Federal Court is reserved for those lawyers that have sufficient trial experience to be allowed to do a trial in Federal Court in Chicago. Application for admission to the Trial Bar is required and will only be approved after it is thoroughly reviewed by a panel of Federal Judges in Chicago. James Dimeas has appeared in Federal Court as far away as Las Vegas Nevada for a Mortgage Fraud Federal criminal case and has appeared in Chicago and Rockford Federal drug cases and in cases involving the Illinois Secretary of State driver’s license scandal, which ultimately ended with the conviction, and the imprisonment of the sitting Governor of Illinois.