University Attended:
Cours de Civilisation Francaises-Sorbonne, Paris, France; University of Illinois, B.A., with distinction in Economics, 1977
Law School Attended:
University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., 1980
Year of First Admission:
1980
Admission:
2011, U.S Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 2013, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1980, Illinois; 1982, U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois
Memberships:
Mr. Thies is a member of the Champaign County, the Illinois State and the American Bar Associations. Within the Illinois State Bar Association he currently chairs its Trusts and Estates Section Council, is a past chair of the Young Lawyers Division and now serves on the Alternate Dispute Resolution Section Council and the Special Committee on the Statute of Repose affecting the practice of law by Illinois lawyers. He was a member of its Task Force Established to Review Gender Bias within the Courts. He now serves as Chair of the Real Estate Committee of the Champaign County Bar Association. He is a member of the Eastern Illinois Estate Planning Council and is a Fellow of the American and Illinois State Bar Foundations. He was honored to receive the Champaign County Bar Association James Capel Jr. Award as outstanding Pro Bono Attorney in Champaign County for his firm’s work on behalf of the Center for Women in Transition (Courage Connection). In 2017 Thies was named a Pillar of the Champaign County Bar Association.