Meet Brigid A. Duffield

ATTORNEY / MEDIATOR / SPEAKER / AUTHOR

For more than 40 years, Brigid Duffield has walked families through the moments that test them most. Her understanding of hard conversations isn’t only professional — it’s personal. The eldest of eight in a close Irish-Catholic family, a mother, a grandmother, a widow, and a cancer survivor, she has lived through loss, transition, and the slow work of rebuilding.  She brings that hard-won compassion to everyone she serves. Grounded in her faith and four decades of law and mediation, Brigid meets people not as cases to be won, but as families with relationships worth protecting long after the hard decision is made.

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Brigid Duffield is the owner of The Law Office of Brigid A. Duffield, P.C., established in 1984. It is a full-service law practice focusing on Family Law, including Parenting Decision Making, Parenting Time Planning (and Interference Issues), Property Settlement, and the purchase and sale of residential Real Estate.

Licenses & Admissions

  • United States Supreme Court, 2005

  • Illinois & U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1984

  • J.D. John Marshall Law School, 1984

  • B.A. Northern Illinois University, 1976

BRIGID’S STORY

A 1984 graduate of John Marshall Law School, Brigid is a Member of the DuPage County Bar Association and the DuPage Association of Women Lawyers. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Lawyers Assistance Program. In 2001, she was appointed as a Hearing Officer at the Attorney Registration Disciplinary Commission, and in 2003 became a Hearing Chair for the Commission.  From 2017 to 2022, she served as the Chair of the Hearing Board for the ARDC.  Since 1991, she has served as a Chair Qualified Arbitration Judge for the DuPage County Arbitration Center.

While in law school, Brigid was the Vice President of the Illinois Restaurant Association, where she became the on-staff Lobbyist, lobbying in Springfield and Washington D.C. to protect and promote the interests of the family-owned business and multi-unit chain restaurant operators. developed the educational training program and the Information Resource Center for the Association.

She has a list of credits to her name, including being a former faculty member at the College of DuPage, where she taught the 40-hour Divorce Mediation Training, approved by the Association of Conflict Resolution in 2001, and Ethics for Mental Health Professionals.

She has lectured and presented on a variety of domestic relations topics including Community Focus’ Divorce and the Illinois Courts. Some presentations include, “Being an Advocate in Juvenile Court,” “Mediation as an Alternative to the Adversary Process,” “Minimizing Visitation Interference,” “Divorce and the Holidays…When it’s Not Such a Wonderful Life,” “Til Death Do Us Part and Other Marriage Myths,” “Conflict Resolution in the Workplace,” “Divorce… from Diamonds to Divine” and the DuPage County “Caring Coping and Children Legal Workshop”.

Brigid’s experience and broad knowledge of family law and mediation has afforded her the opportunity to speak on a variety of topics for the Bar Association, Cable Media programs, local community groups and major companies concerned with employee assistance issues here. In 2006, Brigid developed programs through her second company, Legally Speaking, Inc., to educate the legal community, mental health professionals, and the public on ways to resolve conflict in various arenas with a special emphasis on minimizing the adverse impact of the divorce process on families.

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