My broad experience over the past 20 years includes employment law, corporations, business law, litigation, commercial collections and transactions, family law, real estate, wills and trusts.
More specifically, I have experience with the following:
- Appeals
- Illinois Circuit and Supreme Court
- Arbitration / Alternative Dispute Resolution
- American Arbitration Association Proceedings
- JAMS/Endispute Proceedings
- Arbitrator in Cook, DuPage, and Will County Mandatory Arbitration Programs
- Banking and Financial Transactions
- Bankruptcy Law for Creditors and Debtors
- Business Law
- Incorporation
- Limited Liability Company (LLC)
- Minutes
- Partnership Agreements
- Purchase and Sale of Businesses
- Collections
- Commercial Contract Litigation
- Construction Law
- Consumer Fraud
- Contracts - Preparation & Breach of Contract suits
- Conversion
- Court Appearances
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois -Member of Trial Bar
- Supreme Court of Illinois
- Illinois Court of Appeals
- Illinois Court of Claims
- Illinois Human Rights Commission
- Illinois Circuit Courts of Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Lake, LaSalle, McHenry, Will
- Debtor and Creditor Law
- Declaratory Judgment
- Directors' and Officers' Liability Litigation
- Employment Law
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Employment Contracts (including restrictive covenants and noncompete clauses)
- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Race discrimination
- Sexual Discrimination suits
- Trade Secret Litigation
- Estate Planning, Trusts and Probate Estates
- Family Law
- Adoption
- College Education
- Custody
- Divorce
- Prenuptial Agreements
- Visitation - Parent/Grandparents
- Freedom of Information
- Guardianship
- Health Care Law
- Compliance
- Emergency Medical Treatment Act (EMTALA)
- Health Care Fraud and Abuse - whistle blower litigation
- Malpractice
- Medical Studies Act
- Mental Health Code
- Mental Health Confidentiality Act
- Hearings
- Injunctions, Restraining Orders and Other Emergency Litigation
- Litigation
- General
- Depositions & Discovery
- Trials - bench & jury
- Mechanics Liens
- Lien Foreclosure
- Perfecting lines
- Mediation
- Medical Malpractice
- Personal Injury & Torts
- Probate
- Real Estate
- Foreclosure
- Installment Land Contract
- Landlord &Tenant
- Evictions
- Leases
- Mortgages
- Purchases and Sales of Commercial and Residential Real Estate
- Zoning changes and litigation
- Replevin
- Subpoenas
- Trademarks
- Trusts and Estates
- Wage Garnishments
- Wills
- Wrongful Death
- Zoning, Planning and Land Use Law