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    *  Zedrick Thomas Braden's profile at AINSWORTH & ASSOCIATES, PC
  • Education: Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University, J.D;
  • Centre College of Kentucky; B.A. Government ;
  • Admitted to the bar: Illinois; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; Federal Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois; United States Tax Court; 
  • Has served as a Child Representative/Guardian Ad Litem of the Circuit Court of Cook County;
  • Special Agencies: Has served as Special Assistant Corporation Counsel-City of Chicago; Chicago Transit Authority - per diem personal injury defense attorney; Special Assistant Illinois Attorney General;  
  • Served as co- local General Counsel for Mammoth Life Insurance Company;
  • Serves as Arbitrator with the Circuit Court of Cook County;
  • Third Generation Illinois Trial Attorney (Maintains a private practice in Chicago  concentrating in numerous areas of the law;  continues to represent clients throughout the State of Illinois);
  • Administrative Law Judge (City of Chicago Department of Administrative Hearings);
  • Provides online legal commentary;  Legal Columnist; Published online legal articles;
  • Law Day Panelist and serves as a moot court competition judge for area law schools
  • Served as a cooperating attorney for the NAACP Chicago Chapter;
  • Previous listing in Outstanding Young Men of America;
  • Texas Southern University Alumni Club;
  • Centre College Club of Chicago;
  • Park Manor Neighbors Community Council, Chicago
  • Past Vice President and Treasurer, Chatham Park Village Board of Directors, Chicago
  • Who's Who Among Successful African Americans;
  • National Registry of Who's Who;
  • Who's Who Among Practicing Attorneys For 1990;
  • Eagle Scout;
  • Former Assistant Scout Master with Troop 534;
  • National Eagle Scout Association;
  • Order of the Arrow of Boy Scouts of America;
  • Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity

            Awards  * American Jurisprudence Award, Wills;  Moot Court Competition Finalist;  2011 Appreciation Award from Leo Catholic High School

           Statewide Rating * Ainsworth & Associates PC, listed as the fourth best online criminal defense law firm in the State of Illinois for 2011.                    

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  3. A Conscientious Lawyer and Person.
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  6. Has extensive experience with my kind of problem.