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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