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Keith Grant
Keith Grant
Keith Grant is Senior Supervising Attorney at the Lake County Public Defender’s Office, in Waukegan, where he focuses on criminal defense. He is the President of the Illinois Public Defender Association, was Past President of the Lake County Bar Association, and sits on the Board of Directors of both the Lake County Bar Foundation and the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. Grant received his B.A. from Ripon College and his J.D. from Northern Illinois University College of Law.
Joshua B. Kutnick
Joshua B. Kutnick
Joshua B. Kutnick is senior trial counsel at Joshua B. Kutnick Attorney at Law, in Chicago, where he focuses on criminal defense. Kutnick authored the 2013 Illinois Constitutional Update “Defeating the Illinois Eavesdropping Act,” and, in 2020, he presented on the topic of Defending Sex Crimes at the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ annual continuing legal education conference. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Ashleigh M. McKeigue
Ashleigh M. McKeigue
Ashleigh M. McKeigue is an assistant public defender at the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender, in Markham. She has been with the office for approximately 15 years in various positions and frequently presents to her colleagues on issues involving search and seizure. McKeigue received her B.S. cum laude from Illinois State University and her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law, where she was a Georgetown National White Collar Crime Mock Trial Competition championship team member.
Kathleen M. Pantle
Kathleen M. Pantle
Hon. Kathleen M. Pantle is a retired Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. She was an Acting/Alternate Chair of the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission and a member of the Illinois Pattern Jury Instructions (Criminal) Committee for nine years, serving as Chair for two years. Pantle has served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Chicago Bar Association Commercial Litigation Committee. She received her B.S. magna cum laude from Loyola University Chicago and her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Carly R. Patzke Reyes
Carly R. Patzke Reyes
Carly R. Patzke Reyes is an assistant public defender at the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender, in Chicago, where she focuses her practice on indigent criminal defense. She is a member of the National Association Criminal Defense Lawyers and also is an Autism Awareness Advocate. Patzke Reyes received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her J.D. from The John Marshall Law School.
Marcos D. Reyes
Marcos D. Reyes
Marcos D. Reyes is the Local Attorney Manager for the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Office based in Portage, Wisconsin, where he practices in criminal defense. He is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Puerto Rican Bar Association. Reyes received his B.A. from Loyola University and his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Stephen L. Richards
Stephen L. Richards
Stephen L. Richards is an attorney at the Law Office of Stephen L. Richards, in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in criminal defense and civil rights. He received the Kutak-Dodds Award, Defender Prize, from the National Legal Aid & Defender Association in 2003. He has lectured and written extensively on criminal law and the death penalty, and he has been a member of the Illinois Supreme Court’s Screening Committee for the Capital Litigation Trial Bar and Past President of the Illinois Public Defender Association. Richards received his B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.
Michelle L. Sanders
Michelle L. Sanders
Michelle L. Sanders is Chief Public Defender at the Macon County Public Defender’s Office, in Decatur, where she focuses on criminal defense. She is a member of the Decatur Bar Association and past member of the Board of Commissioners for the Office of the State Appellate Defender. In 2024, Sanders was the recipient of the Illinois Public Defender Association’s Bruce Robert Jacob Award. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Western Illinois University and her J.D. from Southern Illinois University School of Law, now Simmons Law School, where she was a Taylor Mattis Fellow.
Andrew R. Sowle
Andrew R. Sowle
Andrew R. Sowle is an assistant public defender at the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender, in Markam. He is a member of the National Lawyers Guild. Sowle received his B.A. summa cum laude from Connecticut College and his J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School, where he graduated with high honors and Order of the Coif.

Keith Grant

Joshua B. Kutnick

Ashleigh M. McKeigue

Kathleen M. Pantle

Carly R. Patzke Reyes

Marcos D. Reyes

Stephen L. Richards

Michelle L. Sanders

Andrew R. Sowle

Defending Criminal Cases: Pretrial Issues, Guilty Pleas, and Defenses 2025 Edition