Lucille Zielinski
Founding partner
Lucille builds every police and jail case from the record out: the report, the video, the radio traffic, the medical chart.
Lucille Zielinski started the firm to try civil rights cases, and she still tries them. Her cases begin the same way: she asks for everything the department wrote down, everything it recorded and everything it would rather not produce, and she reads it before she writes a word of the complaint.
Takes cases about
- Force and false arrest
- Searches and seizures
- Civil rights jury trials
Where each lawyer is admitted and trained
Admitted to practice
Illinois
Admitted 2002
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Admitted 2003
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
Admitted 2006
Courts
Federal and state trial courts
Jury trials as lead counsel
Seventh Circuit
Appeals from civil rights judgments
Education
J.D., University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
B.A., history, Loyola University Chicago
Languages
English
Polish
Conversational
Memberships
Chicago Bar Association
Federal Bar Association
How Lucille works
She represents people hurt by police, people arrested without cause and people whose homes or cars were searched with no warrant and no reason. She will tell you plainly, at the first meeting, whether the record supports a claim.
Away from the office she teaches an evening class on civil procedure for paralegals.
Write to Lucille.
Tell us what happened. If your matter belongs with another lawyer here, we will say so.