Probate, Estate Planning & Administration | Trust Formation & Administration
- Adult guardianship and guardianship of a minor
- Construction, reformation, revocation, and modification of wills and trusts
- Admissions of wills to probate
- Administration of the trust- Record keeping and allocation of principal and income
- Transfer of assets into a trust
- Trust investments
- Elder law
- Income taxation of Trusts
- Termination of trusts
- Contested claims again decedents’ estates, guardianship estates, and trusts
- Will and Trust contests
- Oral contracts to make wills and joint and mutual/reciprocal wills
- Administration of Decedents’ estates
- Marshalling assets
- Family settlement agreements
- Representing fiduciaries
- Estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax background
- Planning for disposition of closely held business or real estate for production of income
- Grantor and non-grantor trusts
- Charitable remainder trusts and administration of charitable trusts
- Annuities and pensions
- Small estates
- Nursing home litigation
- Property held in revocable, irrevocable, and special needs trust
- Living Wills
- Issues relating to the Healthcare Surrogate Act
Federal Practice
- Civil actions under federal jurisdiction
Corporate Law
- Non tax considerations in selecting the business entity- Sole proprietorship, partnership, LLP, corporation, LLC
- Tax considerations in entity selection- Federal income tax and Illinois income tax
- Formation of sole proprietorships, general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations
- Duties owed to the business entity- Duty of loyalty, duties owed to partners, shareholders, and members
- Derivative suites, Direct suits, and Special litigation committees
- Shareholder agreements- Corporate articles and bylaws
- Voting trusts, voting agreements and irrevocable proxies
- Stock transfer restrictions and buy-sell provisions
- Capitalization requirements
- Dissolution and winding up of the corporation
- Consolidations, mergers, share exchanges, and asset sales
- Professional and medical corporations
- Charitable foundations
- Professional and Not-for-profit Professional Corporations
Litigation
- General trial practice
- Civil actions in state and federal jurisdiction
Real Estate
- Recession and reformation of contracts
- Breach of real estate contracts and specific performance of real estate contracts
- Suits to quiet title in real estate
- Possessory actions – Ejectment, forcible entry and detainer
- Suits to partition interests in real estate- Physical division of property, appraisal with party buyout and sale and division of proceeds in pro rata shares
- Voluntary and involuntary partition of property
- Predatory lending practices and legal remedies for mortgage abuse-Truth in lending and home ownership and equity protection acts
- Defense of mortgage foreclosures
- Loan commitment litigation
- Illinois Credit Agreement Act
- Cooperative, condominium and homeowners’ association litigation
- Real estate mortgage foreclosure
- Commercial and residential short sales
Commercial Property Tax Reductions
- Assessor Complaints in all counties in Illinois
- Cook County Board of Review Appeals
- Sate of Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board
- Correcting assessment errors- Obtaining Certificates of Error
Workers' Compensation
All work-related injuries
Personal Injury
- Aviation Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Negligence
- Medical Devices
- Medical Negligence
- Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
- Pharmaceutical Litigation
- Premises Liability
- Product Liability
- Railroad Negligence & FELA
- Vehicular Negligence
- Workers’ Compensation
Unclaimed Property
- Location and recovery of lost inheritances and unclaimed property for people, churches, non-profits, probate estates and several Fortune 500 companies