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Lisa LaFourcade is a certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law by the California State Board of Legal Specialization. Her practice focuses on advising high-net-worth individuals, privately held businesses, and charitable organizations. Her areas of practice include: Estate, gift...

Jerad Beltz focuses his practice for individual clients on estate planning, wealth preservation, business succession planning and trust administration. He also counsels nonprofit organizations and privately held businesses in formation, governance, compliance, contract negotiation and charitable...

Jay Tarshis's practice focuses on estate planning and administration, taxation, and general corporate law. His estate planning practice is concentrated on inter-generational wealth planning for family business owners and high net worth individuals. Jay frequently addresses business succession issues...

David Moffitt handles a variety of complex civil litigation matters, government contract disputes, real estate disputes, and government investigations. David represents Fortune 500 companies, middle-market companies, real estate developers, builders, and owners, and individual businesspersons in...

John Meigs concentrates his practice in planning and problem solving for wealthy individuals, their families and property interests, both in the United States and abroad. This includes a substantial amount of work on estate planning and estate and trust administration and on tax aspects of planning...

Nancy Slowe concentrates her practice in estate planning and estate administration. She has significant experience in the design and implementation of estate planning instruments, family wealth transfer arrangements and in sophisticated estate and trust administration matters. Her practice also...

Howard Miller is a seasoned business, estates and trusts lawyer who represents clients ranging from single-owner businesses to large family-owned and public companies. His experience spans from representing clients in deals to buy and sell businesses valued up to $150 million and serving as executor...

Katherine "Katie" Barrett Wiik is a litigator with more than 17 years of experience handling federal and state appellate matters and litigation disputes. Katie has served as lead attorney in dozens of appeals and secured favorable outcomes for clients before the Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits...

Bethany Beaver is a member of the Litigation Department in the firm's Chicago office. She maintains a general litigation practice and handles a variety of matters involving complex commercial disputes. While earning her J.D. at The John Marshall Law School, Bethany was a summer associate for the...

Andrew Bollinger is a member of the Litigation Department in the firm's Chicago office. He maintains a general litigation practice with a focus on defending clients in complex commercial business disputes, white collar investigations, and higher education. While in law school at Temple University...

Javier Rodriguez is a trial lawyer who handles commercial disputes and cases involving creditor's rights, real estate, employment issues and professional liability. He also handles admiralty and tort cases and has experience with cases involving cloud-based technologies. Over the course of his 30...

David Brown helps family businesses and high-net worth individuals navigate legal issues connected to the preservation and transfer of their wealth to subsequent generations or other interested parties. He focuses in particular on estate planning, charitable planning, and trust and estate...

Joe Valenti is a trial and appellate lawyer who represents entities and individuals under investigation or in litigation involving government authorities. Clients ranging from financial services companies to government contractors and heavily regulated businesses in the health care, energy...

Allison Burdette advises clients on matters involving investigations by state and federal government agencies, including litigation and regulatory enforcement. Her experience includes negotiating settlements and defending clients in cases involving the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), anti-money-laundering...

A partner in the Trusts & Estates Practice, Russell Fishkind focuses his practice on high net worth estate planning, business succession planning, family office consulting, estate administration and probate litigation. Prior to joining the Firm, Russell served as Chair of the Trusts & Estates Team...

Ronald D. Menaker handles white collar criminal defense matters. Ronald launched his career in the Cook County Public Defender's Office in 1971. During his 10 years in that office he had numerous assignments, including Chief of the Trial Division at 13th and Michigan. In that capacity, he supervised...

Paige Schroeder is a general commercial litigator with broad experience handling civil disputes in state and federal courts from the earliest stages of cases through trial. Paige's experience includes matters involving shareholder disputes, defamation claims, claims for breach of fiduciary duty, and...

Judith B. Kassel provides legal advice and representation pertaining to a broad array of issues relating to doing business with the federal government and state governments. These issues include acquisition planning, proposal preparation, source selection, rights in and protection of intellectual...

Jason McElroy is a trial lawyer with nearly 20 years of experience representing clients in complex litigation in federal and state courts. He has obtained verdicts and judgments in jury trials, bench trials and arbitration proceedings throughout the country. Jason litigates a wide range of matters...