Background, Education and Training:

• Born Chicago, Illinois January 10, 1940;
  
  
• Juris Doctor - DePaul University 1963;
  
  
• Undergrad at Benedictine College (Kansas) and Loyola University (Chicago);
  
  
• Admission to Illinois Bar 1963;
  
  
• Admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois 1963;
  
  
• Duly admitted and qualified as an Attorney and Counselor of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, Washington, DC August 26, 1971;
  
  
• Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Program of Instruction for Lawyers.  Advanced Mediation Training (Robert Mnookin, Gary Friedman, Jack Himmelstein, instructors) - 2000;
  
  
• Illinois State Bar Association Fred Lane Trial Technique Institute 1996-1997;
  
  
• Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Program on Negotiation (Roger Fisher, instructor - 1999);
  
  
• George Williams College of Aurora University School of Social Work - Conflict Resolution and Divorce Mediation Institute - 1999 (additional training in divorce mediation and screening for impairments) - 1999;
  
  
• Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California - Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution - Advanced Family Mediation Skills - 2000.
  • (Pepperdine ranked # 2 in Dispute Resolution by
    US News & World Report, January 2002.)
    
    
• Collaborative Law Training, Collaborative Law Institute, Bloomington, Minnesota. (Stuart Webb, instructor, 2002).
  
  
• Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California - Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution - Collaborative Law Training, 2002.
  
  
• 30 hour mediation externship done in the Kane County, Illinois divorce court along with 10 hours of extern group roundtable discussion.  Externship sponsored through the George Williams College of Aurora University School of Social Work - Conflict Resolution and Divorce Mediation Institute - 1999 - 2000;
  
  
• Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Advanced Negotiation Training (Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, instructors) - 2001;
  
  
• DuPage County Bar Association Matrimonial Trial Advocacy Workshop 2000.
  
  
• Illinois State Bar Association L.A.P. trained volunteer - 1999;
  
  
• JDS Mediation Training Institute, Chicago, Illinois 1998;

While the focus of Richard's practice has been in the area of family law, his legal experience covers a wide range of civil litigation. He is divorced and has been remarried since 1975. He is the father of two daughters and he lives in Burr Ridge with his wife and younger daughter. He credits his ex-wife for encouraging the close relationship that he has always had with his older daughter.

Richard officed in Chicago's loop from 1963 - 1980 and has had a suburban office since then.

 

Memberships:

• The Mediation Council of Illinois - Member Board of Directors (2000-2001)
  
  
• Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois
  
  
• International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
  
  
• Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) - a merged, national organization of the Academy of Family Mediators (AFM); Conflict Resolution Education Network (CREnet) and the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR)
  
  
• Family Law Section of the Illinois State Bar
  
  
• Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Illinois State Bar
  
  
• DuPage County Bar Association Family Law and Practice Committee
  
  
• Panel member - DuPage County Lawyer Referral Service
  
  

Former Member:

• American Bar Association Section of Family Law
  
  
• American Bar Association Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution
  
  
• Association of Attorney-Mediators
  
  
• DuPage County Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee
  
  
• Southwest Bar Association Family Law Committee
  
  
• Chicago Bar Association Matrimonial Law Committee
  
  
• Domestic Relations Panel of the Lawyer Referral Service of the Chicago Bar Association.
  
  
• West Suburban Bar Association - Cook County, IL
  
  
• Will County, IL. Bar Association - Family Law Committee
  
  
• Former appointee (of the Chicago Bar Relations Subcommittee of the Domestic Relations Advisory Committee) to serve as Attorney for the Child or Guardian Ad Litem in custody and visitation matters in the Domestic Relations Division of Circuit Court of Cook County, IL.

The Law Offices of J. Richard Kulerski, P.C.
1200 Harger Rd. Suite 320,
Oak Brook, IL 60523
(630) 928-0600 fax (630) 928-0670

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