Sheina Franco rejoined the firm this week. She clerked for Circuit Judge Dennis Ruth in 2012 and clerked for us last summer before returning for her last year of law school. Sheina is a 2014 graduate of Liberty University School of Law. She recently took the Illinois bar examination and we anticipate she will be licensed to practice law in October, 2014. She takes the Missouri bar exam in February, 2015.
Sheina will be working in litigation. She assisted the firm in a week long medical malpractice trial last summer and has been involved with retaliatory discharge, medical malpractice claims, auto accidents and other injury claims.
Sheina’s areas of concentration will be in family and domestic law. Sheina has deep Christian principles and believes that, even in divorce, people can be strong, civilized and fair. She believes that the needs of children must come first; that being fair does not mean being weak. She believes that a divorce lawyer’s job is to guide and protect her client though one of the most emotionally and financially devastating events a person can endure. I’ve worked with Sheina in the courtroom. She is thorough, smart and fearless.
If you’re considering divorce then call the Law Office of Keith Short at 618-655-9499 or 618-254-0055.
About Law Office Of Keith Short
Keith Short was born in Chicago in 1965. In 1980 his parents moved to Anna, Illinois where he attended high school. In 1989 he graduated from SIUC with degrees in Political Science and English. He then attended Southern Illinois University School of Law, where he graduated in 1992.
Mr. Short worked full time employment throughout college and law school: auto repair, cannery, legal clerkship. In 1991 he began a clerkship for the Hon. John Dibble of the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission. Prior to graduation Mr. Short was offered an associate attorney position with Keefe and De Pauli, P.C. in Fairview Heights where his practice concentrated in the defense of Illinois and Missouri workers' compensation claims.
In 2000 Mr. Short was hired by Hopkins Goldenberg as an associate attorney representing injured workers. In 2002 Mr. Short was offered a full partnership in a firm later renamed Goldenberg, Heller, Antognoli, Rowland and Short, where his practice included toxic exposure litigation, medical malpractice and workers' compensation claims.
Mr. Short has litigated product liability/brain damage cases; medical malpractice lawsuits, wrongful death claims and automobile accident cases. He has handled numerous cases in the Illinois Appellate Courts. Mr. Short also actively participated in the federal welding Multi-District Litigation set in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. Short is a frequent lecturer having given seminars in Washington D.C., Las Vegas, Chicago, San Diego, St. Louis, and New Orleans.
He resides in Edwardsville, Illinois with his wife, 5 children and 3 step-daughters.
On May 3, 2011 Keith Short was sworn in as a member of the Edwardsville City Council, having been elected to represent the city's 5th Ward. He has been assigned by Mayor Gary Niebur to the Public Safety Commission and the Public Services Committee.
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