Attorney Profile

Garrett Thomas

Garrett Thomas is the firm’s Principal Attorney. He represents clients in criminal, civil, and administrative matters across the Chicago area and beyond.

Mr. Thomas brings extensive courtroom and litigation experience to the firm’s clients. In more than a decade of legal practice, he has worked at every stage of litigation and won favorable verdicts in dozens of trials. He navigates a wide range of criminal and civil proceedings and has successfully resolved hundreds of cases. In 2025, he helped negotiate a multimillion-dollar settlement on behalf of plaintiffs in a case involving breach of fiduciary duty.

Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Thomas began his career at a criminal justice organization where he focused primarily on criminal cases involving public policy issues and the wrongly accused. He won his first felony jury trial less than three months into practice. He was ultimately appointed special counsel to handle his team’s most serious cases as the youngest attorney on staff. In that role, he achieved favorable outcomes in over 90% of his cases.

Mr. Thomas has counseled individual clients, business owners, nonprofits, and startup companies. He maintains a broad network of corporate, nonprofit, and community partners and has served on the boards of organizations across the country. He was recently appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court Committee for Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases.

Mr. Thomas graduated from Georgetown University Law Center and earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis. During law school, he clerked in the trial division of the D.C. Public Defender Service and helped litigate federal civil rights cases at Georgetown’s Institute for Public Representation.

Bar Admissions

State of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Education

Georgetown University Law Center
Washington University in St. Louis

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