Estate Planning, Wills, Trusts, and Probate

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The term "estate planning" covers a wide spectrum of legal instruments and services, all aimed at protecting, preserving, and distributing assets in accordance with a person's wishes.  No two situations will ever be exactly the same, and therefore, special attention to detail is required.

The attorneys in our estate planning practice provide comprehensive services to our clients, such as:

• will and trust drafting
• estate taxation
• decedent's estates
• trust administration
• business succession
• marital planning
• elder law
• Medicare/Medicaid planning
• special needs trusts
• guardianship -- minors and disabled adults
• fiduciary income taxation
• individual income taxation

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Insurance Fraud

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Our attorneys assist our insurance and other clients in providing highly trained attorney investigators in a wide array of aggressive anti-fraud efforts.

We are recognized as leaders in the area of defending personal injury and property damage lawsuits where fraud indicators, including those promulgated by the National Insurance Crime Bureau have been raised.  This includes defending cases believed to be part of fraud schemes involving multiple parties and claims, intentionally caused accidents, arson, and fraudulent medical providers actively involved in individual or multiple claims.

In addition to acting as trial counsel, our attorneys work side by side with claims personnel in investigating losses from their inception.  This includes document examination, taking examinations under oath of insureds and advising on insurance coverage and payment decisions.  All attorneys practicing in this area have multiple years of trial experience.  In addition to taking any appropriate case to trial and pursuing declaratory judgment actions, we have the background to advise on any statutory, contractual, policy and common law issues arising in fraud investigations.

Our attorneys are not only active practitioners, but members of fraud fighting local and national organizations and act as public speakers to professional groups on a regular basis.

Commercial Litigation

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Our commercial litigation attorneys are trial lawyers, who provide services to a wide variety of clients ranging from banks and other secured lenders to insurers to municipal corporations and to companies manufacturing goods or providing services. Over the past thirty years, we have been one of the leading firms in the Chicago area in number of civil jury cases tried to verdict. Litigation is over 50% of our firm’s practice.

Our attorneys are experienced in state and federal courts, administrative hearings and mediations. At the trial level, we have experience that includes handling injunctions, corporate and partnership dissolutions, oppression of minority shareholders’ interests, condemnations, foreclosures, replevins, attachments, supplemental proceedings, breaches of contract, title disputes, broker disputes, Uniform Commercial Code cases, business torts, bankruptcies, actions for relief from automatic stays, defense of preference motions and complaints, asset investigations, actions to preclude discharge or to prevent dischargeability of a particular debt, class actions, securities litigation, defending consumer fraud and common law fraud actions, and both the defense and prosecution of civil RICO cases. We also do ERISA, intellectual property, real estate, tax, trust and estate, insurance coverage, and lending litigation. Some examples of our breach of contract cases: supplier agreements, equipment agreements, managed care contracts, real estate development agreements, software consulting agreements, construction contracts, property management contracts, real estate purchase contracts, security guard contracts, and employment agreements.