‘Full of Dreams’: Daisy Ayllón ensures her clients’ entire stories are told

Daisy Ayllón’s definition of success is less about where you end up in life than the distance you traveled to get there. And she doesn’t know anyone more successful than her mother.

“This is a woman who doesn’t have more than a sixth-grade education; who grew up in a deeply impoverished farming community in Mexico where women were not valued; who was one of 11 children; who, somehow, without knowing a word of English—and who was utterly reliant on men to provide for her—managed to move to the U.S. as a mother of three, get a good job, learn the language, become a homeowner; and see one of her children become a lawyer, another earn an MBA, and another earn an advanced degree from Johns Hopkins,” says Ayllón. “I have a deep admiration for her because it’s so hard to go out into the world and just do that, just push.”

Read the rest of this feature on Partner Daisy Ayllón in the 2025 Illinois Super Lawyers magazine.