Areas of Practice

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Animal Bites -- Plaintiff
• Antitrust & Trade Regulation
• Arbitration
• Assault & Battery -- Plaintiff
• Aviation Accidents -- Plaintiff
• Bankruptcy Law
• Business & Commercial Law
• Business Organizations
• Collections & Repossessions
• Commercial Bankruptcy
• Commercial Leasing
• Commercial Real Estate
• Complex Litigation
• Condominiums & Cooperatives
• Construction Contracts
• Construction Law
• Construction Liens
• Consumer Bankruptcy
• Consumer Protection
• Contracts
• Creditors' Rights
• Criminal Fraud
• Criminal Law
• DUI/DWI
• Debt Discharge
• Defamation & Privacy -- Plaintiff
• Dental Malpractice
• Dissolution
• Divorce
• Drug Violations
• Elder Law
• Employee Rights -- Employer
• Employment Contracts -- Employee
• Employment Contracts -- Employer
• Employment Discrimination -- Employer
• Employment Law -- Employee
• Estate Planning
• Family Law
• Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employee
• Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employer
• Formation & Business Planning
• Juvenile Crimes
• Landlord/Tenant
• Legal Malpractice
• Limited Liability Companies
• Litigation & Appeals
• Living Wills
• Mediation
• Medical Malpractice
• Misdemeanor
• Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
• Other Professionals Malpractice
• Partnerships
• Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
• Powers of Attorney and Appointment
• Premises Liability -- Plaintiff
• Prenuptial Agreements
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Products Liability Law
• Professional Malpractice Law
• Property Damage -- Plaintiff
• Railroad Accidents -- Plaintiff
• Real Estate Law
• Residential Real Estate
• Sexual Harassment -- Employee
• Shareholders' Rights
• Slip and Fall -- Plaintiff
• State Trial Practice
• Traffic Violations
• Trusts
• Wills
• Workouts
• Wrongful Death -- Plaintiff
• Wrongful Termination -- Employee
• Wrongful Termination -- Employer

Certification/Specialties

• Mediation, DePaul University Law School, 2000

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1982
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1982

Education

• Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1982
  J.D.
  Honors: Dean's List
  
  
• University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1979
  B.A.
  Honors: With Honors
  Honors: With Distinction
  Honors: Dean's List
  Major: Political Science
  
  

Representative Clients

• Loehmann's
• Northwestern National Insurance Company

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Lecturer, Business Law, Uptown Hull House
• Lecturer, Business Law, Truman College

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Edgewater Chamber of Commerce
  Legal Counsel and Director
  
  
• Uptown Chamber of Commerce
  Director and Former Legal Counsel
  
  
• Chicago Bar Association
  
  
• Illinois Bar Association