About Modupe
Modupe Sobo built her legal foundation across two continents. She earned an LL.B. from the University of Wolverhampton in 1990 and returned to the United States to complete a Juris Doctor at Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1994. Those years of study gave her both an English common law perspective and an American law degree, a combination that has shaped how she approaches cases and procedure.
Her career moved into private practice a few years after law school. In 1997 she opened the Law Offices of Modupe Sobo & Associates and has operated as a solo practitioner since then. Running a small firm has meant handling many roles: counselor, advocate, manager and sometimes investigator. The firm’s longevity suggests steady client work and a practice that adapted to changes in local courts and arbitration rules over decades.
Sobo has also served in public or quasi‑public roles. In 2005 she accepted duties as an arbitrator in the Mandatory Cook County Arbitration program, hearing disputes that the court directed into arbitration instead of a jury trial. That experience placed her on the other side of the courtroom silhouette, deciding claims rather than presenting them. Later, beginning in 2008, she served as a member of a Hearing Panel for the Lawyer Registration and Disciplinary Commission. That role involved review and deliberation on professional conduct matters, exposing her to the disciplinary procedures that govern licensed practitioners.
Those assignments have informed the practical side of her practice. She understands courtroom procedure and arbitration mechanics. She is familiar with ethics investigations and the processes that accompany them. Her file work spans intake through resolution, and she has experience arguing procedural and evidentiary questions in the contexts where she has worked.
Colleagues and adversaries see a lawyer who moves between adjudicative roles and private practice. That mobility has allowed her to view disputes from multiple vantage points: as counsel, as an arbitrator and as a panel member in disciplinary matters. It has also required careful recordkeeping and a steady engagement with local rules and calendars.
She is licensed in Illinois and maintains her practice in that jurisdiction. She continues to operate the Law Offices of Modupe Sobo & Associates, handling client matters that include arbitration and disciplinary proceedings as well as general practice work in the Illinois courts.
