Hassakis & Hassakis, P.C. Welcomes Attorney Shane Carnine

We are happy to announce that Shane Carnine has join the firm. He brings valuable expertise to Hassakis & Hassakis, P.C. as a past special assistant attorney general. Former trial lawyer for the defense bar. His 15 years of experience will be put to good use fighting for the rights of those adversely affect by the negligence of others.

Like Mr. Humbrecht, Mr. Carnine also has a history of an attorney in the family. Mr. Carnine was recently feature as an Emerging Lawyer in Leading Lawyers magazine.

In that article, Mr. Carnine talk about listening to his father analyzing the next step to take with respect to court proceedings. He is quote as saying that he “passively absorb that information for years. Which was a very unusual way to start the business.”

Shane was also influence at an early age when he would read law journal articles of an emeritus professor of Southern Illinois University School of Law. These past experiences led him to minor in pre-law and major in political science at Eastern Illinois University. While at EIU in Charleston, Carnine work for the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, which is a central and southern Illinois organization that provides free legal services for low-income people and senior citizens.

The Emerging Lawyers article also refers to Shane’s one-year clerkship in the Utah Court of Appeals, where he found a work-life balance right out of school and manage to go snowboarding when he was not drafting legal opinions for the appellate court.

Before joining Hassakis & Hassakis, P.C., Carnine work for his father’s firm for 6 years alongside his dad. Before the elder Carnine retire in 2010 after 37 years of practicing law. In the article, Shane credits his father, who was induct as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. As being instrumental in teaching Shane and being his mentor for a number of decades.

The article also quotes from one of Carnine’s former clients. Has a reference to some insight provide by a retire judge for the 4^th Judicial Circuit. Judge Hitpas, who now serves as a mediator in some of Carnine’s cases. Note that Shane is “a good, hardworking young lawyer” who is “a very good advocate for his clients.” One of those former clients is quote in the article as explaining that Shane assure him that “everything was going to be fine, and he wasn’t kidding.”

The full text of the article can be find here.

Carnine is a past president of the Jefferson County Bar Association.