Chicago Attorney Laurel Bellows in Line to Head ABA

April 13, 2010 BY SHIA K. Crain’s Chicago Business Chicago business attorney Laurel Bellows is running unopposed to lead the American Bar Assn., putting her in line to be the first ABA president from Illinois since 1975. Owner of the Bellows Law Group–she and Joel Bellows practiced law together for 25 years–counsels executives on employment […]

Michigan Avenue Magazine: How to Succeed in Business

Full-Court Press Laurel Bellows BY JESSICA GIRDWAIN Michigan Avenue Magazine Attorney Laurel Bellows, a pioneer for women trial lawyers, began blazing a trail after graduation from Loyola Chicago School of Law in 1974, when she joined Bellows and Bellows, P.C., where she met her future husband, Joel. In 2009 Bellows spearheaded the formation of Bellows […]

Small Firm in a Big Pond Big City Practice

Small is spectacular, but I’m biased. At five feet tall I have that “good things come in small packages” attitude. Of course, co-partnering a nine-lawyer law firm with my husband, Joel, in downtown Chicago requires attitude.