Pizarro Law, LLC

As a Female Minority owned and run law firm, we are committed to not only supporting local and global initiatives around empowerment and access to legal assistance, but also actively participating in the ways in which we can make a positive impact. 

Our commitment to helping each and every client achieve the best outcome for their specific situation is the firm's top priority. Our firm provides the comprehensive expertise to successfully meet and exceed the many challenges and facets of Family Law, including so many of the issues that are associated with it. We deliver high and uncompromising standards across a variety of disciplines while meticulously tailoring to the needs of each individual client. 

We know firsthand that divorces can be anything but easy, but we work creatively to to come to the most efficient and best resolution possible. From working through collaborative divorces and mediating issues to the most contentious divorces, our goal is to always support you along the way with tons of compassion and a little tough love.  While there is no cookie-cutter way to go from beginning to end, as every client's needs are different and every circumstance is not the same, we are resolute in resolving everything from the minutia to the complex and high-stakes disputes as well as everything in between. We take pride in preparing individualized plans for each of our clients that is specific to their basic and future needs taking into account their current circumstance. 

We will defend you throughout the entire process while hoping to empower you along the way because divorce is not the end of your story but rather the beginning of your new chapter. 

MAYRA PIZARRO

PRINCIPAL 

Mayra Pizarro founded the firm in 2022, after having worked in the field over 8 years where she was Co-Counsel to a sole practitioner for 1 year and then left to spearhead the family law division of a small firm for 3 of those years. Mayra offers skilled representation and legal counsel across a myriad of legal disciplines, though she specializes in family law and real estate. 

Mayra is constantly striving for excellence while zealously pursuing justice on behalf of her clients. She is a tireless advocate both in and outside of court, which many, including opposing counsels, can attest to. She leads the firm’s initiatives in providing legal supportive services to the underrepresented through her on-going commitment to pro bono work. 

Mayra graduated from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana with a BA in Sociology and a minor in Pre-Law, completed the Granstsmanship Training Program at the Grantsmanship Center Institute, the Executive Education Program with Loyola University and received her J.D. with an International & Comparative Law Certificate from DePaul College of Law in 2011. As a law student, she was a competing member in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria, she obtained her 711 License to mediate for pro se clients, and partook in European Legal Studies, International Business Organizations and International Human Rights study abroad Programs.  During her time at DePaul Law School she held a leadership position in the Latino Law Student Association as an Academic Chair and held both the Secretary and Vive President positions for the Women’s Bar Association.

Currently, she is an active member of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Association of Latino Professionals of America, Associate Lady Lawyers who Lunch, the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois, the Puerto Rican Bar Association and a newly admitted volunteer for Chicago Volunteer Legal Services where she will provide Guardian a Litem and Child Representative services for income qualifying clients. Mayra remains steadfast in her commitment to her community, to her work in the DV world and to providing access to information subsidized by the firm. 

Mayra is no stranger to divorce, which is also why she understands the feelings of uncertainty that can become so overwhelming as to feel paralyzing. She also understands the complexities of the outcomes for each and every decision made, both big and small. She is a straight shooter and offers her clients compassion and empathy with a handful of tough love. She will creatively navigate your needs while aggressively negotiating your desires in an effort to obtain a settlement that provides you the peace of mind you want while attempting to avoid any unnecessary time and money with needless litigation.