Stephanie Kemen is a Wisconsin native and received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota. After graduation, she began law school at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
During law school, Stephanie gained valuable trial experience as a felony clerk with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office. After graduation, that experience allowed her to begin working for a private criminal defense attorney soon after passing both the Illinois and Wisconsin bar exams.
Since 2009, Stephanie has worked with some of the most prominent defense attorneys in Cook County. In 2012, she opened her own firm, the Law Office of Stephanie Kemen. Stephanie has built a reputation of providing diligent representation by successfully representing her clients on thousands of criminal and traffic matters.
In 2016, Stephanie co-founded Driver Defense Team where she continues to defend DUI, criminal, and all types of traffic cases.
Your winning defense strategy
We devise every defense strategy based on our battle-tested PlayBook of winning tactics, developed from our 114+ years of collective experience and analysis of over 5,000 winning cases for driving offenses.
We use this to develop your custom GamePlan, which is delivered in three parts.
Briefing. Development. Execution.
The result? No cookie-cutter or copy-and-pasted strategies, but a roadmap tailored to you — and only you.
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See the A-Team in action over on our YouTube channel, where we record our unfiltered reactions to police stops from all over the country, or watch our entertaining and educational videos on unique court procedures across Illinois counties, the things cops don’t want you to know, whether you can refuse a field sobriety test in Illinois, and lots more.
We promise our videos are anything but boring.
