About Jackson Street Chambers
While the needs and norms of administering justice have changed, the excellent advocates of the past worked flexibly and pragmatically with chamber mates, other barristers, instructing solicitors, clients and the courts to advance it. From the many good examples Abraham Lincoln is but one.
Although his practice was at Sixth and Adams Streets in Springfield Illinois, Lincoln regularly worked away. As a staple on the Eighth Judicial Circuit, he appeared in civil, commercial, family, and criminal matters across 14 counties.
Welcome in all of them, Lincoln’s formidable legal skills were appreciated on equal terms with his pragmatism, hard work, humor, intelligence, storytelling, compassion, adaptability and enthusiasm for people.
Thoughtful of others and keen to get along, Lincoln was liked and respected amongst the fifteen or so very junior to very senior colleagues who regularly traveled the circuit with him. By the time he was a senior member of the Bar Lincoln had a reputation for knowing how each individual’s personal and professional skills and attributes could contribute to solving the legal and non-legal problems the circuit presented for communities with no local courts.
Harnessing this spirit, Jackson Street Chambers value the advice, advocacy, negotiation and mediation skills the Bar’s diverse areas of practice foster to best assist stakeholders to find legal and practical solutions in the unique processes that arise along the way to resolving disputes.
With substantive experience in their individual areas of practice, our barristers understand the Bar is uniquely placed to aid instructing solicitors, clients and other stakeholders adopt a consensus approach to the parallel processes that can test liability.
By joining together in these chambers, our barristers acknowledge the Bar has an important place in making these processes relevant and their stakeholders relatable.
As prominent as Lincoln became, his personal and professional burdens illustrate some of the difficulties, stresses and mistakes that continue to bring stakeholders in touch with the justice system. He lived with his family on the corner of Eighth and Jackson Streets.