Jed Stone Named Professional of the Year in Legal Services

    WAUKEGAN, IL, May 06, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Jed Stone, Principal Owner of Stone & Associates, LTD, has been named a Worldwide Branding Professional of the Year in Legal Services. While inclusion in Worldwide Branding is an honor, only a few members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, years of service, and the credentials they have provided in association with their Worldwide Branding membership.

Mr. Stone has 39 years of experience as a principal owner of Stone & Associates, LTD. As a seasoned practitioner in criminal defense law, he has practiced since 1976. Mr. Stone is known throughout the United States for his advocacy, as well as his criminal defense seminars for the National Criminal Defense College. Mr. Stone takes pride in being known as the go-to defense firm in the Waukegan and Northern Illinois areas. He taught criminal law locally at Northwestern University and Lake Forest College, and outside of Illinois at the New York State Defender Institute. His advice to others considering this field is to know that what they are about to do is very important; they will be helping people at the most crucial time in their lives, so they need to have a very strong desire to help.

Looking back, Mr. Stone attributes his success to his passion for serving the under-served, as well as his concern about the health and well-being of his clients. He became involved in his profession due to the values he was taught by his mother as a youth. His mother was a huge influence, as she was originally an immigrant who came to this country in the early 1900s. His mother raised him to be articulate, value education, and to speak his mind. Serving the under-served was important to him and becoming a lawyer made sense and provided him with the tools to do just that.

Mr. Stone received a JD from the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1975, and a Bachelor of Arts from Lake Forest College in 1971. He was admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois. He is a certified criminal trial advocate for the National Board of Trial Advocacy, and he is a teacher of the National College of Criminal Defense at Mercer Law School and the New York State Defender Institute. Mr. Stone also serves as a lecturer at the Department of Politics at Lake Forest College. In recognition of his hard work and dedication, Mr. Stone has been honored as an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated Attorney by Martindale-Hubbell and a Leading Illinois Lawyer in Criminal Appellate Advocacy. In the coming years, Mr. Stone will continue to provide quality representation for his clients.

For more information about Stone & Associates, LTD, visit http://www.jedstone.com.

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