About Marie
Marie Sarantakis earned her Juris Doctor from The John Marshall Law School in 2016 after beginning her legal studies in 2012. Her early legal education included classroom work and practical placements that shaped her path into family and civil litigation.
She gained courtroom exposure as a judicial extern for Justice Thomas L. Kilbride at the Supreme Court of Illinois in 2015. Earlier experiences include a judicial externship for Chief Judge Mary Wagner at the Kenosha County Courthouse in 2009 and internships at the Kenosha County District Lawyer’s Office in 2008 and the Kenosha County Public Defender’s Office in 2007. Those roles placed her in both prosecutorial and defense settings and gave her early contact with trial procedure and client advocacy.
Over the years Sarantakis has accumulated a range of professional trainings and certifications that reflect the work she handles. She completed Parenting Coordinator Training through the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and multiple Guardian ad Litem trainings through Kane County and DuPage County bar groups as well as Chicago Volunteer Legal Services. She is a Certified Financial Litigator through the American Academy of Certified Financial Litigators and has taken domestic relations trial advocacy and arbitrator training programs. Mediation, collaborative practice, and leadership coursework also appear on her resume.
Her association history is extensive and shows steady involvement in bar governance and committee work. She serves as the Task Force Liaison to the ABA Young Lawyers Division Wellness Team and sits on the DuPage County Bar Association editorial board. She has held chair and vice-chair posts in several ABA Young Lawyers and Solo/Small Firm Division committees, taken leadership roles in the Illinois Lawyers Assistance Program, and is a fellow of the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois. She joined the board of the DuPage County Bar Foundation and has maintained memberships in the Illinois Bar Foundation, West Suburban Bar Association and other local and national organizations.
Those experiences inform the kinds of matters she handles. Her background in guardian ad litem work, family law advocacy training, financial litigation credentialing, and dispute resolution education point to a practice that blends courtroom representation, alternate dispute resolution, and child-focused assessments. She is admitted to practice in Illinois, Wisconsin and Texas.
Sarantakis now practices through Sarantakis Law Group, Ltd., where she manages matters that reflect her training in family law, financial aspects of divorce, guardianship work and alternative dispute resolution. Her current practice focuses on family law and related financial litigation.
