Parker & Parker Attorneys at Law is a downtown Peoria law firm handling plaintiff-side personal injury and wrongful-death cases, along with Illinois adoption matters including foster-care adoptions. Drew Parker founded the practice in downtown Peoria in 1977. Robert Parker joined the firm in 2009 and leads it today from the firm's office at 300 NE Perry Avenue.
The firm remains local by design: one downtown Peoria office, direct attorney responsibility, and practice systems built around Central Illinois courts, hospitals, families, and records.
Who you'll talk to
The goal is simple: understand what happened, route you to the right person, and give you a clear next step.
Managing Partner
Robert Parker is the attorney responsible for the firm's personal-injury, wrongful-death, and adoption matters. He leads legal strategy and reviews the work on each matter the firm accepts. His professional recognition includes Super Lawyers, Leading Lawyers, and Fellowship in the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys.
Adoption Paralegal
Beth has worked at Parker & Parker for nearly two decades. She guides foster-care, stepparent, and private-agency families through the records, notices, scheduling, and court steps required for finalization.
Personal-Injury Paralegal
Celina is often the first person an injury client speaks with. She coordinates records, scheduling, lien information, litigation support, and day-to-day client communication.
3L Law Student
Kimberly is a 3L law student and the firm's creative director. She supports litigation, legal research, trial preparation, and the photography and visual work that shape the firm's public materials.
Analyst
Eric brings a background in libraries, HR, education, and emergency medical response to intake and case support. He helps organize information, follow up on records, and keep communication moving.
On television
Drew and Robert Parker in court together during a two-week Putnam County trial in Hennepin in 2018.
Chess with Grandpa. Drew Parker, now retired, takes on his granddaughter in the front room of the office (2026).
What we do
Most days at Parker & Parker look like one of two things. Someone was hurt in a crash, a fall, or a nursing home, and their family needs a lawyer who will take on the insurance company. Or a family is adopting a child, through DCFS, a stepparent, or a private agency, and needs the paperwork and the court date to go right the first time.
Drew Parker started the firm downtown in 1977. Robert Parker joined him in 2009 and leads it today. Theresa Hardesty's adoption practice joined in 2012. Drew and Theresa are retired; the work they built is still done here, by the people you just met.
The firm's personal-injury work includes car collisions, truck crashes, motorcycle crashes, uninsured and underinsured motorist claims, nursing-home neglect, premises liability, dog-bite injuries, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful-death claims. The firm represents injured people and families, not insurance companies or corporate defendants. Injury cases are prepared with trial in view and handled on a contingency fee.
The adoption practice handles foster-care adoptions through the Illinois DCFS Statewide Adoption Attorney Panel, stepparent adoptions, private-agency adoptions, independent adoptions, and international finalizations. Foster-care attorney fees are paid under the State of Illinois DCFS fee schedule. Other adoption fees are flat and disclosed at intake.
Robert Parker is a Fellow of the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys and has authored continuing-legal-education materials on Illinois adoption law.
Plaintiff-side and trial-ready
Parker & Parker represents injured people and families, not insurance companies or corporate defendants. Most cases settle. Records, damages, witnesses, negotiations, and deadlines are organized with trial in view.
Attorney responsibility
Robert Parker leads the legal strategy on the firm's injury, wrongful-death, and adoption matters, with staff support organized around each practice system.
Clear terms
Injury and wrongful-death cases use a contingency fee. Adoption fees follow the DCFS panel schedule or a disclosed flat fee.
Downtown Peoria office
Parker & Parker has practiced in downtown Peoria since 1977. The firm bought the historic building at 300 NE Perry Avenue in February 2024 and has worked there since, near the Peoria County Courthouse, OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Carle Methodist, Carle Proctor, and I-74.
The building is the Andrew J. Hodges House, built circa 1885 in the Victorian / Second Empire style. It is a contributing structure within Peoria's North Side Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and approved in Part 1 historic tax-credit review as a Certified Historic Structure after review through the Illinois State Historic Preservation Office.
Common questions
Robert Parker is the managing partner and active attorney leading Parker & Parker today. Drew Parker founded the firm in 1977 and retired in 2025.
The firm handles plaintiff-side personal-injury and wrongful-death cases. It also handles Illinois adoption matters, including foster-care adoptions through the Illinois DCFS Statewide Adoption Attorney Panel.
No. Drew Parker founded Parker & Parker and practiced law in Peoria for decades before retiring in 2025. Robert Parker leads the firm today.
The firm is at 300 NE Perry Avenue in downtown Peoria, Illinois. The office is in the historic Andrew J. Hodges House near the Peoria County Courthouse, OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Carle Health Methodist, Carle Health Proctor, and I-74.
Parker & Parker handles injury and wrongful-death matters across Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford, Marshall, Stark, Knox, and surrounding Central Illinois counties.
