The MacNeil Firm is a family of three lawyers, a father and two sons. As cook county criminal defense and DUI defense attorneys, we are dedicated to providing superior service to our clients in Illinois and Indiana. What sets us apart from many other criminal defense lawyers and DUI defense attorneys is our passion for the law, the Constitution, and our dedication to producing a winning result in your case. Said another way, we hate to lose. Nothing is more rewarding to us than securing a Courtroom Victory for our clients.
No Case Is Too Small Or Too Large!
Whether you are a first offender or have multiple arrests, our Cook County criminal defense attorneys and DUI defense lawyers take a personal interest in each case, and our commitment to you and your case is unmatched. While there are many good DUI and criminal defense lawyers, The MacNeil Firm is distinguished by our personal service. We make every effort to exceed our client’s expectations during this stressful time after an arrest. We handle DUI and Criminal Defense cases in Oak Lawn, IL, Orland Park, IL, Palos Heights, IL and Chicago Heights, IL.
Cook County is a county in the U.S. State of Illinois. Its county seat is Chicago, the largest city in Illinois and third-most populous city in the United States. More than 40% of all residents of Illinois live in Cook County. Cook County’s population is larger than that of 29 individual U.S. states, and the combined populations of the seven smallest states. There are 135 incorporated municipalities partially or wholly within Cook County, the largest of which is Chicago, which is home to approximately 54% of the population of the county.
That part of the county which lies outside of the Chicago city limits is divided into 29 townships; these often divide or share governmental services with local municipalities. Geographically, the county is the sixth-largest in Illinois by land area. It shares the state’s Lake Michigan shoreline with Lake County.
Including its lake area, the county has a total area of 1,635 square miles (4,234.6 km2), the largest county in Illinois, of which 945 square miles (2,447.5 km2) is land and 690 square miles (1,787.1 km2) (42.16%) is water. Land-use in Cook County is mainly urban and densely populated. Cook County is included in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is surrounded by what are known as the five collar counties.
Experienced and Passionate Cook County Criminal Defense Attorneys
Making a mistake in good faith doesn’t make you a bad person and doesn’t mean you deserve to live with a stigma for the rest of your life. Don’t give up. Also, don’t attempt to negotiate with the prosecuting attorney by yourself. You will never regret time spent finding an experienced Cook County criminal defense attorney to represent you. Your rights will be protected and your professional and personal reputation will be preserved. Don’t accept whatever plea agreement is offered to you by the state. Get to a qualified attorney in order to look out for your interests and your future.
At The MacNeil Firm, you can expect truly personalized representation for you and your DUI case: immediate responses, open and prompt communication, sensitivity and compassion, and complete respect during this very difficult time. Whether you are in need of a Chicago DUI attorney, an Orland Park defense attorney, or a Cook County criminal attorney, we’ll fight for you.
Even if you have been convicted in the past, you still have important rights. The MacNeil Firm will fight to make sure they’re protected. Contact the dedicated Cook County criminal defense attorneys at The MacNeil Firm for a free case evaluation today to find out how we can help you make sure that your legal rights are honored and save your future reputation. If you have a pending DUI or criminal case in Illinois or Indiana, don’t wait until it is too late. Contact us immediately to start mitigating the damage and helping you put this situation behind you.
We fight hard to ensure our clients have the best possible results
Success in court is 90% preparation and 85% presentation. Yes, we’ve done the math, and that is certainly more than 100%, but the point is, you don’t win cases in court by merely giving 100%; you have to give more. When you work with The MacNeil Firm Ltd. as your DUI defense attorney or Cook County criminal defense attorney for another charge in Cook County, IL, you’re working with a firm that has a track record that speaks for itself.
We have the experience, the skill, and the courtroom savvy to take prosecutors down, and we do. The prosecution will not be getting any prizes or gifts from us in the form of witnesses or evidence because we will fight every element of their case from the get-go.
During the discovery period, we will challenge everything. We will scrutinize every piece of ‘evidence’ the prosecution presents before we ever set foot in court, and we’ll look for obvious, and not so obvious, reasons to disqualify that evidence and petition the court to make it inadmissible. If there’s a problem, chances are we’ll find it, and get it removed from the case long before the trial begins. Evidence that isn’t presented cannot hurt your chances of an acquittal, so we will work tirelessly to take the upper hand over prosecution in regard to their ‘evidence.’
Additionally, we’ll bring in some of the Chicago area’s top investigators if need be, to dig into your case and find evidence that supports the case and strategy we’re building to defend you. When it comes to investigations, we only work with the best people who get results, so rest assured, if there is something to be found that will help us win your case, our investigators will find it.
And in regard to the prosecution’s witnesses, if there are any, we’ll interview them and get a sense of how we will refute their claims. Remember, this isn’t our first rodeo, and we know exactly what to look for in weak witnesses, and we know how to break them in court. Our Cook County criminal defense attorneys also help to expose that they are lying, if they are. If their recollections of events are incorrect, which they often are, we will find out. If they have something to gain personally from their testimony, we will bring that out as well.
In short, if they are a weak witness, or a disreputable one, we’ll do what it takes to ensure that what they say in court will carry little if any water at all. And in regard to arresting officers, police personnel and so forth, we’ll interview everyone and look for holes in their stories, and/or evidence of improper procedures, either with the handling of evidence or the treatment of the defendant while in their custody, etc. to find ways to either get the case dismissed, or get an acquittal.
Contact Cook County criminal defense attorneys at The MacNeil Firm today for a free consultation.