Professional Service With A Personal Touch
Office of Drendel & Jansons Law Group
Gilbert X. Drendel Jr.
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Practice Areas:
- Family Law
- Adoption
- Pre-Marital Agreements
- Municipal Law
- Real Estate Law
- School Law
Education
- Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1961
- Cornell College
- 1958
- Honors: summa cum laude
- Honors: Member of Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
- Illinois, 1961
- U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois, 1965
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1965
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois, 1965
Current Employment Position
- Member
Professional Associations
- Board of Trustees of Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa since 1993
- President of the Board of Trustees, Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, 2002 to 2005
- Village Attorney for the Village of North Aurora, 1967 to 2001
- Batavia School Board, 1974 to 1980
- Kane County Bar Association, Member
- Illinois State Bar Association, Member
- President of the Kane County Bar Association, 1976 to 1977
- Chairperson of that Bar Association's Family Law Committee
- First Chairperson of the Kane County Judicial Evaluation Committee, 1995 to 1999
Past Positions
- Founding Director of the Old Second Bank of North Aurora
- Old Second National Bank, Director, 1970 to 1997
Honors
- Awarded the Community Service Award by the Kane County Bar Association
- Awarded the Community Service Award by the Illinois State Bar Association
Classes & Seminars
- Lecturer, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education