Venerable and lauded Chicago lawyer Thomas Durkin has died after a very brief illness at age 78.
Durkin was an advocate for constitutional justice and worked on behalf of thousands of criminal defendants who were charged with terrorism, drug violations, fraud and myriad crimes in cases filed by state and federal authorities in Chicago and around the world.
He often used his full name, Thomas Anthony Durkin, to differentiate himself from the many other Tom Durkin’s in the legal world, but nobody was like this Tom Durkin…