Chicago, Illinois, Criminal Defense Attorneys

Criminal Law and Civil Rights: Chicago Lawyers Aggressively Protecting Your Rights

Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense attorneys Neil L. Toppel and Richard Dvorak recognize that many arrests occur without law enforcement respecting your civil rights. Our separate law firms are dedicated to protecting the interests of our clients — whether that involves aggressively fighting for their rights in a criminal case or filing a civil rights lawsuit.

From their separate law firms in Chicago, attorneys Neil L. Toppel and Richard Dvorak provide relentless advocacy to Cook County clients who are facing criminal charges or are confronting a dispute involving a civil rights violation. Contact us today to arrange an initial consultation with an experienced attorney. Richard Dvorak is fluent in Spanish, and Neil L. Toppel has Spanish-speaking staff available.

Illinois Criminal Defense and Civil Rights Lawyers

Neil Toppel and Richard Dvorak have worked professionally together since 2000 — spending years as colleagues at the Cook County Public Defender's Office followed by six years operating a joint practice before forming separate law firms in 2010 — The Law Offices of Neil L. Toppel and The Law Offices of Richard Dvorak. While now operating under separate law firms, both attorneys respect the experience, depth of knowledge, and resources each attorney has brought to cases handled together over the years, and they continue to work side-by-side in select cases, fighting aggressively to protect the rights of each client in criminal defense and civil rights matters.

• Neil Toppel is a Chicago attorney with extensive experience handling both civil rights and criminal defense cases, including cases involving federal criminal defense, such as drug conspiracy, drug trafficking or other drug crimes, as well as other federal crimes. Mr. Toppel has also protected the civil rights of countless clients in employment discrimination matters.
• Richard Dvorak is a Chicago lawyer with exemplary skill handling civil rights and criminal defense cases, including cases involving Internet crimes, such as solicitation of children through the Internet, as well as state and federal criminal appeals and post-conviction petitions.

Both firms offer experienced advice, quality representation, and personal guidance in other civil rights and criminal defense cases, including cases that involve sexual assault and other sex crimes, resisting arrest, aggravated battery to a police officer, homicide, weapons charges, false arrest, police misconduct and other areas of criminal defense and civil rights violations.

Contact a Chicago Attorney

We provide vigorous, relentless criminal defense representation, as well as a deep commitment to civil rights. To obtain more information or to schedule an appointment with an experienced lawyer, please call The Law Offices of Neil L. Toppel at 312-663-9500, or call The Law Offices of Richard Dvorak at 312-593-7146. The Law Offices of Neil L. Toppel and The Law Offices of Richard Dvorak are two separate law firms.