Joseph G. Feehan is from Joliet and is a partner in the Peoria office of Heyl Royster Voelker & Allen. He earned an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Illinois State University and his law degree from Northern Illinois University (Cum Laude 1988). Mr. Feehan has spent his entire legal career with Heyl Royster and concentrates his practice in all areas of civil litigation and insurance defense, including product liability, trucking/transportation, sexual torts, premises liability, and auto litigation.

In addition to his membership in the IDC, Mr. Feehan is a member of the Peoria County Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute, the Trucking Industry Defense Association, and the National Diocesan Attorneys Association. He is a past President of the Abraham Lincoln Inn of the American Inn of Court and served as Chairman of the Peoria County Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education Committee from 2008 to 2010.

Mr. Feehan has been a member of the IDC for almost 20 years. He was Chairman of the Young Lawyers Division and has spoken at the Fall Seminar and Spring Seminar on various occasions. Mr. Feehan has authored the Evidence and Practice Tips Column for the IDC Quarterly since 2000 and served on the Editorial Board until becoming Editor in Chief in 2006-2007. He lives in Peoria with his wife and five children.