Richard J. Dvorak
Criminal, Police Misconduct, Civil Rights, Personal Injury, General Practice, Sexual Harassment
Language(s):
Spanish
Richard J. Dvorak | Willowbrook Criminal Lawyer
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About Richard
Richard Dvorak graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in journalism and history. In 1996, after a brief career in journalism, Mr. Dvorak began attending De Paul University College of Law. During law school, he took a year off to teach English in South Korea and Spain. After returning to De Paul in 1998, Mr. Dvorak was chosen to be a summer intern in Mexico City with an independent Mexican human rights organization. Having lived and worked in Spain and Mexico, Mr. Dvorak is fluent in Spanish.
After graduating from De Paul law school in 1999, Mr. Dvorak worked as an attorney with the Cook County Public Defender's Office in Chicago. While working for the Public Defender's Office, Mr. Dvorak successfully tried numerous bench and jury trials. Mr. Dvorak then went into private practice, concentrating his work in criminal defense, civil rights and personal-injury litigation. In the Fall of 2004, Mr. Dvorak and Neil Toppel formed the partnership of Dvorak & Toppel.
Mr. Dvorak is the author of the "Confessions" and "Representing Clients in the Early Stages of a Criminal Action" Chapters of Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education's authoritative practitioner's guide, "Defending Illinois Criminal Cases." Mr. Dvorak is also the author of a law review article published in the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, 5 Mich. J. Race & L. 611 (2000), titled, Cracking the Code: "'De-Coding' Colorblind Slurs During the Congressional Crack Cocaine Debates." This article, which traces the racist history behind the passage of every major federal drug law, argues why the federal crack cocaine sentencing scheme violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution. This article has been cited in dozens of published law review articles; by the American Civil Liberties Union in a March 19, 2002 speech before the United States Sentencing Commission; and was cited by a federal judge in New York in support of his published decision that reduced the sentence for an African-American man convicted of possessing crack cocaine. See Simon v. United States, 361 F.Supp.2d 35, 43, n.9 (E.D. N.Y. 2005).
Mr. Dvorak is a member of the Legal Advisory Board of First Defense Legal Aid (FDLA), a Chicago-based, non-profit legal organization dedicated to protecting the civil rights of individuals in Chicago Police Department police custody. Mr. Dvorak is a member of the Illinois Bar, the general and trial bars for the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, as well as a member of the bar for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
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Experience
Owner
Dvorak Law Offices, LLC
September 2010 - Present
Willowbrook, IL
Owner/Partner
Dvorak, Toppel & Barrido, LLC
March 2003 – September 2010 (7 years 7 months)
Chicago, IL
Lawyer
DiFranco & Associates, PC
March 2002 – March 2003 (1 year 1 month)
Assistant Public Defender
Cook County Public Defender's Office
March 2000 – March 2002 (2 years 1 month)
Admission
U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
2007
U.S. Supreme Court
2004
Illinois
1999
U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
1999
Education
University of Wisconsin
Bachelors of Arts (Journalism and History)
1993
Recognitions & Achievements
Associations
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National Police Accountability Project, Member
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National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Member
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First Defense Legal Aid, Advisory Board Member
Honors / Awards
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Nation's Top One Percent, National Association of Distinguished Counsel2015
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Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers Magazine2014
Notable Work
Publications
"Confessions" and "Reing Clients in the Early Stages of a Criminal Action", Chapters of Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education's Authoritative Practitioner's Guide,
present / 2009
Cracking the Code: "De-Coding' Colorblind Slurs During the Congressional Crack Cocaine Debates", Michigan Journal of Race & Law, 5 Mich. J. Race & L. 611 (),
2000 / 2000
Additional Info
Dvorak Law Offices, LLC Highlights
Civil Rights, Criminal, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Police Misconduct, Appeals
Firm Size:
1
Firm Locations:
1
Languages:
English, Spanish