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Ted McNabola, left, with 100 Club of Chicago CEO Joe Ahern and 100 Club Board Member John Idler.
ago. Ahern calls McNabola one of the 100 Club’s most en- thusiastic “young” members.
“He comes to all our events because he cares about po- lice officers and especially their families,” Ahern shares. “He really embodies our mission.”
McNabola’s relentless drive that compels him to be at every 100 Club event is no doubt fueled by his wife Katie, daughters Maggie and Claire and son Tully. They have giv- en up dad to many long days and nights preparing cases for his clients, which often includes sitting in court watch- ing trials for other cases to work on his approach and tech- nique.
Honing that approach has enabled McNabola to achieve verdicts in favor of his clients in his last four trials totaling almost $20 million in awards. In those four cases, the de- fense was so confident before trial that no settlement offer
Ted with wife Katie, daughters Maggie and Claire and son Tully.
was even made.
“Being a good trial attorney is an ongoing process of
learning. You never consider yourself a trial attorney but rather an aspiring trial attorney,” he confides. “Prepara- tion is the foundation of success. You have to be thorough, thoughtful and prepared.”
He loves putting the case together, looking at each one as a puzzle, he says, and figuring out how the pieces fit to- gether to best serve the client.
Then, once he has the case in order, it’s on to the law, which is where Hernandez noticed how he really excels.
“By anticipating what opposing counsel is going to do, you plan ahead for all possible moves from the defense,” McNabola reasons. “It’s almost like a chess game.”
A chess game in which all police officers would do well to have Ted McNabola as their white knight. d
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