Frank Venis, Partner

Frank Venis is a native of New York City and a former naval officer.  After serving on a destroyer and a minesweeper, he first moved to the Chicago area when assigned to Naval Station Great Lakes from 2001 to 2003.  After graduating from the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign-Urbana, he returned to Chicago to practice law.  He worked for a toxic tort defense firm and now concentrates his practice in bankruptcy, civil litigation, education law and criminal defense.  

EDUCATION

• University of Illinois College of Law, Cum Laude, 2009
• University of Delaware, Bachelor of Arts in History, Cum Laude, 1995 

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Illinois (2009)
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of  Illinois (2010)

AWARDS

• Two Navy Commendation Medals for Meritorious Service
• CALI award for highest grade in bailouts seminar 

ASSOCIATIONS

• American Legion
• Illinois State Bar Assocation (Former chair of the council for Small Law Firms and Solo Practioners Council) 
• Veterans of Foreign Wars