Paul M. Marriett

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Paul Marriett grew up in a proud IBEW union household, graduated from RPS, attended Rock Valley College, and completed B.A. degrees in Philosophy and Political Science, with a minor in Religious Studies from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. Paul earned his J.D. from Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida and completed his last semester at John Marshall Law School, in Chicago, Illinois. What Paul is most proud of as part of his educational accomplishments is being an alumnus of the greatest trial lawyer training program in our country and is a grateful graduate of the inaugural class at the Gerry Spence Method Trial Program at Thunderhead Ranch in Dubois, Wyoming. Paul also maintains active professional memberships through the Illinois Bar Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys. The first step in his practicing legal career was prosecuting restraining orders/no stalking/orders of protection against violent individuals through the Cook County, Illinois Domestic Violence Legal Clinic at the Harrison Street Courthouse in Chicago, Illinois. From there Paul was a staff attorney at North Florida Legal Services in Panama City, Florida where he represented clients in family law matters (divorce, custody, paternity, guardianships, and adoptions), probate, and BP Oil related claims where tens of thousands of businesses, individuals, and their families, suffered staggering financial losses from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. After opening his first office in Rockford in 2013, the office concentrated primarily in general criminal defense matters ranging from traffic, DUI, to significant felony level offenses. 

It was after representing his first plaintiff though, and attending courses through the Trial Lawyers College, that he knew representing real people against corporations and the major insurance companies and their teams of lawyers was how he could be the most effective at helping people. Since taking on personal injury related and worker’s compensation matters, Paul has been able to be a shoulder for his clients to lean on when things get tough. When a client and/or a client’s family is suffering with grueling physical therapy sessions, surgeries, physical pain and suffering, financial uncertainty, loss of a loved one’s life, or a permanent, traumatic injury that changes the nature of an individual and/or their family’s life, Paul is there for the people he represents. 

You may hear about fictionalized accounts about lawyers attending medical appointments with a client, visiting a client in the hospital, going to their clients’ homes and jobs, or going out to the scene of where injuries occurred with their team of investigators, our office does all of those things because it helps us get the absolute best results for the people that count on, and depend on us to help them recover and obtain justice for their past pain, present suffering, and future hope. Over his career Paul has been able to help thousands of people throughout Winnebago County and elsewhere around Northern Illinois on cases ranging from basic traffic offenses to wrongful death lawsuits against Fortune 500 listed companies. He’s a Winnebago County resident, happily married, with three energetic children, a yellow Labrador, and a Boston Terrier. Helping injured people is more than a job for him.