Bill Elward

Bill Elward is a career prosecutor, currently working as a Senior Assistant Attorney General assigned to the Illinois Attorney General’s Criminal Prosecution Trials Assistance Bureau. He prosecutes a wide range of crimes throughout the State of Illinois. Bill has trained state and federal investigators throughout the United States in Investigative Techniques, Questioning Suspects, and preparing a case for trial. From 1999-2202 he conducted training on Search Warrants for the Illinois State Police at their academy in Springfield. In addition, he has conducted training for Illinois arson investigators and has trained lawyers in trial skills throughout the country for the last sixteen years.

Bill graduated cum laude from Loyola Law School in Chicago in 1993 and has tried over 75 jury trials and hundreds of bench trials to verdict. After graduating from law school he worked as a prosecutor in Dade County Florida for two years where he prosecuted hundreds of DUI and traffic cases, as well as felony cases. After leaving Florida, Bill worked as an Assistant State’s Attorney in DuPage County where he was a prosecutor in the Felony Drug Unit.

Bill is the Program Director for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s (NITA) Midwest Trials Program held in Chicago. He also teaches Evidence and Trial Practice at night at Loyola University Law School in Chicago, where he is “Distinguished Practitioner in Residence.” Bill was voted outstanding lecturer for his work training prosecutors for the Illinois State Appellate Prosecutor’s Office.