Jeannine Parker-Ross

Jeannine has served as my attorney on a couple of cases over the last two years. She is extremely knowledgeable, communicates effectively, and is an active listener. She was always prompt in responding to my questions and concerns. I personally feel that she is devoted to her clients with support and... compassion. I've worked with other attorneys in the past and never found one that actually seemed to care until I found Jeannine. Divorce and custody disputes are emotionally hard enough to deal with. If you're looking for a caring attorney who goes beyond her responsibilities to ensure to make this process easier, Jeannine is the attorney to contact.

Jeannine is a very bright woman. She understands the law very well, and she does her best to help her clients. I went to her to use her for mediation services and ultimately had to retain my own counsel because she didn't clearly inform me of the realities of Illinois mediation (which means that she... HAS to represent one or the other of you and is ethically obligated to follow her clients best interests). Jeannine is gruff, and comes off as angry. She's a straight shooter and I'll grant her that she is well suited to run a case in Will County. That being said, my personal interactions with her were nearly always adversarial in nature. After sending her multiple copies of important documents in electronic format she used a rule in Will County Law (which is by definition one of the most antiquated courthouses in Illinois) that states that the papers be printed and delivered. Apparently for as smart as Parker-Ross is, she is unable to discern neatly organized and effectively named files. That is to say, she has no idea how to use a computer and simple search technology. That alone however is not my biggest issue with her. As a father, you are often at a disadvantage going into court to begin with. As a middle class to upper middle class male headed into a divorce with a spouse who does not have a full time job, you are immediately at an incredible disadvantage. At the start of my divorce, Jeannne Parker-Ross stated that "this is a good father" to several of the involved parties in my case. After advising my former spouse to "use the nuclear button" and have me thrown out of the house by police order Jeannine ensured that my children were put on the order of protection in which I could not see them for 3 weeks. At the time, I didn't understand what was going on, but the truth of the matter is this is just a ploy to obtain exclusive possession of your home. Once this was done, Jeannine guided my wife (remember, we had started to use her as our mediator) through the various steps of dismantling my ability to provide for myself, keep me from my children, and pretty much believed every word that was told to her by my wife. Now, I realize that I can be a difficult man to get on with. I further realize that divorce is a difficult scenario to deal with to start. That being said when you take a persons home from them, remove their ability to see their children, and have no history of physical violence in your home, imagine the stress that it puts on a human being. It took me nearly four months to get back to "normal". At every opportunity that I've since had to deal with Parker-Ross she is snide, rude, acts as if this is personal to her and without a doubt is aggressive for her clients. That being said, for someone claiming to be thinking of the best interest of children, there was never a single day in my children's lives that I was uninvolved until Parker-Ross became involved in our lives. She has helped to build a strategy to destroy a good father (with her own admittance and then change of mind) and his relationship with his children. In the end, Parker Ross appears to me, in my opinion, to be a highly intelligent, man hating, divorced woman with a chip on her shoulder, a great education, and an unbelievable disposition to simply listen to one side of a story. She encourages family destruction, not the building of bridges towards a brighter future. I'm certain she sleeps well at night telling herself "she's just doing her job. She's looking out for her clients best interests", but the truth of the matter is, she does very little help an already incredibly painful situation. Bravo Jeannine, your client wins, and their children lose.