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Mary Christine Ludwig
Pontiac, IL Business Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
Business, Agricultural, Estate Planning and Municipal
Drake University Law School
Mary Ludwig received her J.D. and M.B.A., along with a Certificate in Food and Agricultural Law from Drake University in 2005. Prior to that she received a Bachelors of Science in Agriculture Economics from the University of Illinois. Mary concentrates her practice in agricultural law, estate planning, real estate transactions and probate. Her agricultural law experience includes organization and representation of production agricultural farm operations, agricultural cooperatives, grain elevators, agricultural input suppliers, ethanol and bio-diesel plants, and specialty farm product companies, wind tower and cell tower leases and easements, pipeline, gas, public utility and fiber optic easements,...
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Mark Varboncouer
Frankfort, IL Business Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Business, IP, Patents and Personal Injury
University of Illinois College of Law
Mark Varboncouer is the founder of Varboncouer Law. Mr. Varboncouer is an experienced trial attorney who previously spent 10-plus years with Kirkland & Ellis LLP (“one of the nation's largest and most prestigious law firms”/ “known for its world-class litigation practice”/ “one of the ‘Fearsome Foursome’ — the four firms most likely to strike fear in opposing counsel”); and 4-plus years with another highly-prestigious 1,000-plus attorney law firm, McGuireWoods LLP, where he litigated a variety of issues: contracts, non-competes, tortious interference, unfair competition, fraud, licenses and complex intellectual property issues (e.g., patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, false advertising etc.)....
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Jennifer K. Kearney
Joliet, IL Business Law Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Business, DUI, Family and Real Estate
The John Marshall Law School
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Kelly Karczmar
Crete, IL Business Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
Business, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
The John Marshall Law School
Attorney Kelly Karczmar graduated from the University of Chicago with honors in 1994. She graduated from the John Marshall Law School in 2005, where she served in the Fair Housing Legal Clinic. Ms. Karczmar served for six years as a Human Resources Director in a Fortune 100 company. She was responsible for union negotiations, employee relations and legal compliance. Ms. Karczmar is an attorney admitted to practice in the state bar of Illinois, as well as the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She has practiced law since 2005. She is a member of...
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Trisha M. Rachoy
Frankfort, IL Business Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
Business, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Trisha focuses her private practice on individual and small business transactional and compliance matters. She handles all areas of real estate law, estate planning and probate matters, and business transactions and compliance. She believes in actively listening and communicating with her clients in order to help them accomplish their goals. Before starting her own practice, Trisha worked in both a large law firm and as general counsel for a small business. While working for one of the largest labor and employment law firms in the country, Trisha gained experience counseling employers on benefit law compliance and transactions....
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Daniel Adler
Joliet, IL Business Law Lawyer
Business, Personal Injury and Real Estate
University of Illinois College of Law
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Thomas Planera
Matteson, IL Business Law Lawyer
Business, Estate Planning and Real Estate
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Nick Bathas
Mokena, IL Business Law Attorney
Business, Appeals, Securities and Tax
Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
Scott Delaney
Joliet, IL Business Law Lawyer
Business
University of Illinois College of Law
Anne Wright Fiero
Lexington, IL Business Law Lawyer with 33 years of experience
Business, Antitrust, IP and International
The University of Chicago Law School
George Stuhr
Joliet, IL Business Law Lawyer
Business, Bankruptcy and Real Estate
Katherine Dodds
Morris, IL Business Law Attorney with 43 years of experience
Business and Energy
University of Houston Law Center
Scott Nemanich
Joliet, IL Business Law Attorney with 46 years of experience
Business, Education and Real Estate
Northwestern University School of Law
Deborah Lisy
Joliet, IL Business Law Lawyer
Business, Divorce and Family
Ronald Gerts
Bourbonnais, IL Business Law Lawyer
Business, Collections, Criminal and Divorce
Stephen John Tock
Dwight, IL Business Law Attorney with 38 years of experience
Business, Real Estate and Tax
Emil Furlane
Joliet, IL Business Law Attorney
5 E Van Buren St
Joliet, IL 60432
Business, Criminal and DUI
Alan Smietanski
Bradley, IL Business Law Lawyer
Business, Collections, Divorce and Estate Planning
David Babb Jr
Pontiac, IL Business Law Lawyer
Business, Divorce, Family and Personal Injury
Ryan O'Reilly
Joliet, IL Business Law Lawyer with 22 years of experience
John Ridge
Kankakee, IL Business Law Lawyer
777 N Kennedy Dr
Kankakee, IL 60901
Business
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Robert Shipley
Chicago, IL Business Law Attorney with 45 years of experience
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfBusiness, Construction, Insurance Claims and Real Estate
Northern Illinois University
Robert A. Shipley is the founding partner of Shipley Law Group, Ltd. For decades he has maintained long-standing client relationships while engaged in an active litigation and trial practice, along with general business counseling.
Mr. Shipley focuses his practice in civil litigation involving complex commercial, construction, construction defect, insurance, professional liability and tort litigation and general business counseling, as well as Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution. An experienced trial attorney, he has in excess of 100 cases to verdict and has successfully argued cases in the Illinois Appellate Court.
Mr. Shipley has been awarded the AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating™...
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Adam Gana
10.0 
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3706 N Greenview Ave
#100
Chicago, IL 60613
Free ConsultationChicago, IL Business Law Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Business, Appeals, Insurance Claims and Securities
New York Law School
Adam Gana serves as the managing partner of the law firm of Gana Weinstein LLP. His practice focuses on all aspects of securities arbitration. Mr. Gana's experience includes securities arbitration and litigation in various dispute resolution forums including JAMS, NFA and FINRA and litigation in both State and Federal Courts. As lead counsel, Mr. Gana has tried more than forty cases to verdict before the state and federal trial and appellate courts, AAA, and has settled hundreds more cases through mediation and direct negotiation.
Mr. Gana was named in the New York Super Lawyers Rising Stars® for eight straight years (an...
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Charles Todd Newland
Rolling Meadows, IL Business Law Attorney with 35 years of experience
(847) 797-9300
3601 Algonquin Road
Suite 990
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfBusiness, Estate Planning, Personal Injury and Probate
University of Illinois - Chicago John Marshall Law School and Creighton University School of Law
I have been practicing law for over 35 years. I graduated 3rd in my class from law school, so I had the opportunity to work at one of Chicago's largest law firms on Michigan Avenue, Ross & Hardies, right out of law school. At that time my experience was mostly in the area of personal injury law having clerked during law school for one of the nations top personal injury lawyers, Leonard M. Ring & Associates. In April of 1991 I started my own firm that has continued to prosper under the philosophy of providing, "Quality,...
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Ahmad Sulaiman
Lombard, IL Business Law Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Business and Real Estate
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Atlas Consumer Law is a Debtor's Rights Law Firm with a primary focus on foreclosure litigation defense, consumer bankruptcy and loan workout agreements. The Firm is dedicated to defending borrowers against Lenders and Collection Companies. The Firm has become the industry standard for an effective, results oriented foreclosure defense law firm.
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Mazyar M. Hedayat
Romeoville, IL Business Law Attorney with 28 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Construction, Foreclosure Defense and Real Estate
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, DePaul University and University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Mazyar M. Hedayat is the principal of M. Hedayat & Associates, PC, a law firm that has represented Clients for nearly 25 years in the areas of business law and litigation, bankruptcy law and litigation, real property transactions and litigation, construction law and mechanics liens, corporate law, and more. After attending the University of Chicago and University of Michigan, Mr. Hedayat received his MBA from the U.M. Ross School of Business, and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law. Mr. Hedayat is a title insurance agent and operated a full-service title company for 6 years....
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Celiza (Lisa) Bragança
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Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfSkokie, IL Business Law Attorney with 31 years of experience
Business, Securities, Stockbroker Fraud and White Collar Crime
University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
Lisa Bragança protects individuals and businesses from being bilked by Wall Street and bullied by regulators. She knows how to get important information to securities regulators early, before they have reached a decision on whether to charge and what to charge. Lisa served as a Branch Chief in the Division of Enforcement of the Chicago Office of the Securities & Exchange Commission, where she handled investigations of accounting fraud, Ponzi schemes, insider trading, churning, and unsuitability. While at the SEC, Lisa collaborated with the federal criminal prosecutors in securities fraud investigations at major corporations.
Since leaving the SEC, Lisa has...
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Michael Raff
Northfield, IL Business Law Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfBusiness, Collections, Real Estate and Tax
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
I enjoy working on a variety of legal matters for our firm.
Some of the more regular tasks include representation of clients in an array of tax disputes before the IRS and the Illinois Department of Revenue. These cases often work there way through the administrative level, up through appeals, and often to the United States Tax Court. My clients have scored significant victories in Audit Defense, Offer in Compromise and Innocent Spouse cases.
I am also experienced in drafting employment contracts such as employment and separation and termination agreements as well as restrictive covenants.
I represent buyers and sellers in residential real...
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Robert M Motta
Aurora, IL Business Law Attorney with 22 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Criminal, DUI and Divorce
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Robert Motta II is the Managing Partner at Motta & Motta LLC. He concentrates his law practice in criminal defense, DUI, divorce & family law. Robert was named 2014 Top 100 National Trial Lawyer and is known in the legal community for his unparalleled pre-trial and trial strategies.
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Robert D. Kreisman
10.0 (1 Peer Review)
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfChicago, IL Business Law Attorney with 48 years of experience
Business, Elder, Medical Malpractice and Nursing Home
DePaul College of Law and University of Illinois - Chicago John Marshall Law School
Kreisman Law Offices is a Chicago-based personal injury firm that successfully uses a client-based approach to seek justice for victims nationwide. Robert Kreisman is an AV-rated attorney, the highest rating by Martindale-Hubbel with over 45 years of experience litigating a variety of catastrophic injury cases, including those involving medical malpractice, nursing home negligence and abuse, car and truck accidents, wrongful death, products liability, and commercial litigation. He works with some of the leading experts in the nation and employs the newest technology to seek the most favorable results possible for his clients. Most cases are taken on a contingency fee...
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J.D. Houvener
Chicago, IL Business Law Attorney
Free ConsultationBusiness, IP, Patents and Trademarks
Seattle University
Call now or visit our website to get your FREE Inventor’s Guide to Patents book and consultation!
Live to your purpose! Protect and bring to market your visionary idea!
Our firm's sole focus is patents. When you specialize you serve your customers the best. Trusted nationwide by scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs, investors, and more!
It is a common misconception that inventors and business people have, that as soon as an invention is granted a Patent from the USPTO, that interested tech companies will come knocking at the door looking to license your invention or buy the technology.
Or, that magically there will be a massive...
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William S. Wilson
LaGrange, IL Business Law Attorney with 41 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfBusiness, Elder, Estate Planning and Probate
Northwestern University School of Law and University of Texas - Austin
Over 30 years ago, Bill Wilson began his legal career along side his dad, James T. Wilson and practiced with him until his passing in 2008. Bill carries on the legacy of compassionate, expert legal counsel concentrating in the areas of Elder Law, Estate Planning, Business Succession, Medicaid Planning and Estate Planning for Families that have Children with Disabilities.
Bill feels a “profound obligation to provide counsel that ensures the safety of the hard earned assets of families.”
He extends that obligation outside of his practice too. Currently, he serves as President of Aging Care Connections Board, a not-for-profit agency in La...
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Robert J. Castle
10.0 (1 Peer Review)
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfNorthfield, IL Business Law Lawyer with 10 years of experience
Business and Securities
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Robert Castle is a proven business attorney and trusted advisor. He takes great pride in providing personalized, professional legal services that helps his clients achieve their goals. He has guided businesses of all shapes and sizes through various corporate, franchise, and securities matters—and is highly skilled at drafting and negotiating clear narratives for all types of commercial contracts, franchise documents, and compliance material tailored to each client’s unique needs. Rob has a proven track record for defining and executing nuanced legal strategies relating to business operations, complex transactions, franchise matters, and intricate regulatory compliance issues. ...
