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John A. Sopuch III
Naperville, IL Business Law Lawyer with 33 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Personal Injury and Real Estate
Pepperdine University School of Law
John A. Sopuch III, a trial lawyer with a history of winning some of the nation’s biggest verdicts, has joined The Collins Law Firm as Of Counsel.
In 2002, the National Law Journal recognized John’s nearly $43 million verdict (in Miami Cigar v. UST, et al., a business fraud case) as among the top 100 verdicts in the nation that year. In 2004, John did it again, with his $30 million verdict in a breach of contract case, Basic Capital Management Inc. v. Dynex Commercial, Inc.
Hailing from St. Louis, MO, John was born on March 21, 1965. Attending prep school at...
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Brent E. Ohlmann
Naperville, IL Business Law Attorney with 34 years of experience
Business, Communications, IP and Trademarks
Northern Illinois University
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Axel R. Cerny
Winfield, IL Business Law Attorney with 11 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Estate Planning, Family and Real Estate
The John Marshall Law School
Axel R. Cerny grew up in the DuPage County community, attending Wheaton Academy in West Chicago. Following graduation in 2006, Axel attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications/ Journalism studies in 2010. From there, Axel returned to the area to study at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He earned a Juris Doctorate degree in 2013, and after passing the bar exam was promptly hired to the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office as an Assistant State’s Attorney. There he worked for two years under DuPage County State’s Attorney, Bob Berlin, prosecuting...
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Garrett H. Nye
Naperville, IL Business Law Attorney with 14 years of experience
Business and Bankruptcy
Emory University School of Law
I received my law degree from the Emory University School of Law, with honors. Before attending law school, I worked in the accounting field, having received my finance degree from Arizona State University.
I began my legal career working for a midsize firm located in Atlanta, Georgia, before returning to the Chicagoland area. Over the course of my career, I have represented both debtors and creditors in a wide range of bankruptcy and insolvency related matters. Having sat on both sides of the table, I bring a unique perspective to both my bankruptcy and litigation clients.
I have filed personal and business...
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Aaron T. Troy
Wheaton, IL Business Law Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Business, Estate Planning, Probate and Tax
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Kathryn C Rolewick
Wheaton, IL Business Law Attorney with 11 years of experience
Business, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Kathryn C. Rolewick was admitted to practice law by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2013. She had worked as a Trust Administrative Officer for U.S. Trust, Bank of America, N.A. since graduating from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2013. She joined Rolewick & Gutzke, P.C., the firm founded by her father, David Rolewick, in 2016. Kathryn's areas of practice include estate planning, wealth management, probate estates, contracts, and general corporate and business structures.
Rolewick attended Boston College where she graduated cum laude from the Honors Program in 2004. She is a member of the DuPage County Bar Association, the...
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John Dirk Gutzke
Wheaton, IL Business Law Lawyer with 40 years of experience
(630) 653-1577
1776 South Naperville Road
Suite 104 A
Wheaton, IL 60189
Business, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
University of Illinois College of Law
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Julie Anderson-Kulovits
Naperville, IL Business Law Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Business
Northeastern Illinois University
Julie has been an attorney with The Collins Law Firm, P.C. since 2006, and concentrates her practice on the Firm’s litigation work as well as acting as outside general counsel to non-profit associations. Julie was admitted to the Bar of the State of Illinois in 2006, and earned her juris doctor degree from Northern Illinois University’s College of Law in May 2006, where she graduated summa cum laude. Prior to law school, Julie attended Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, receiving her B.A. in Business Administration in 2002. Julie is an active member of the American Society of...
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Cheri Costa
Orland Park, IL Business Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Bankruptcy, Divorce and Family
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Cheri Costa is an attorney serving the Southwest Suburbs of Chicago and Chicagoland since 2005.
My goal is to provide you and your family with Legal Advice and Legal Representation that you may need throughout your life. I understand the difficulties life may bring and I wish to be your Personal Attorney there for you at those times, whether it is going through a Divorce, obtaining Child Support, Maintenance (Alimony) or Parenting Time with your Children, helping with debt situations using our Bankruptcy Laws, Preparing your Estate Plan with Trusts and Wills, buying or selling your home, or...
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Michelle L. Adams
Geneva, IL Business Law Attorney with 31 years of experience
Business and Arbitration & Mediation
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
I am a licensed attorney with 25 years experience as a civil defense litigator and trial lawyer. For most of my practice I specialized in Personal Injury Defense with a sub-specialty in Medical Malpractice, Premises Liability and Intentional Torts. I also represented a Medical Captive Insurance Company as lead attorney, advising the Board on Risk Management issues and representing the insured doctors in litigation. I have tried cases to verdict in many counties in Illinois. I was chosen by Nautilus Insurance company to represent its insured in lawsuits in Cook County, including Multi-Million dollar Construction injury...
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Mark D Manetti
Westmont, IL Business Law Attorney with 51 years of experience
Business, Construction, Estate Planning and Real Estate
DePaul College of Law
Mark D. Manetti has been a partner in the law firm of Manetti & Griffith, Ltd. since 1986. His practice is focused in commercial litigation and real estate law. His commercial litigation practice involves business breakups, injunctions, contract interpretation and probate disputes. Mr. Manetti's real estate litigation practice involves title defense for major title insurers, mechanic's lien prosecution and defense, and construction disputes.
Mr. Manetti received his J.D. Degree from DePaul University in 1973. He has frequently participated as a lecturer at various Chicago Bar Association, DuPage County Bar Association, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) and Illinois Land Title...
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Kathleen Currie Chavez
Geneva, IL Business Law Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Business, Antitrust, Consumer and Employment
Northwestern University School of Law
Kathleen C. Chavez, founding partner of Foote, Mielke, Chavez & O’Neil, LLC, earned her Juris Doctor degree in 1998 from Northwestern University School of Law. Chavez is a nationally recognized civil litigator with a reputation for obtaining exceptional results in challenging cases. She is a results-driven, highly focused “problem-solver” with an unmatched ability to strategically frame critical issues, develop innovative solutions and negotiate outstanding results for her clients. She is admitted to practice law in California, Illinois and Washington D.C., as well as various federal courts, the Federal Trial Bar and the United States Federal Court of Claims.
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Therese L O'Brien
Orland Park, IL Business Law Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness and Real Estate
The John Marshall Law School and DePaul College of Law
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Majdi Y. Hijazin
Lombard, IL Business Law Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Business, Civil Rights and Landlord Tenant
The John Marshall Law School
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Edgar Petti
Geneva, IL Business Law Lawyer with 66 years of experience
Business, Bankruptcy, Estate Planning and Real Estate
The University of Chicago Law School
Mr. Petti is a resident of Elburn, IL. He was born in Philadelphia, PA, and grew up in Pittsburgh PA and Evanston IL. He has acted as legal counsel for both small and large businesses. He has been associated with private law practice firms in Chicago and the Chicago Suburban area. For the past twenty two years, he has maintained his principal law office in Kane County, Illinois.
Mr. Petti's corporate law work includes serving as staff counsel for Motorola and General Counsel of Andrew Corporation, two international electronic businesses.
His trial work has taken him from Connecticut to...
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Margaret Galka
Naperville, IL Business Law Attorney with 6 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Environmental, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Vermont Law School
Margaret Galka joined the Collins Law Firm in 2018 as an associate attorney. She focuses her practice in environmental litigation and personal injury.
Margaret graduated Magna Cum Laude from Vermont Law School, where she concentrated on environmental and energy law. While attending law school, Margaret worked as a clinician in the Environment and Natural Resources Law Clinic and clerked for a prominent law firm in Burlington, Vermont. Margaret also served as a Co-Chair of the Women's Law Group and as an editor of the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.
Prior to law school, Margaret graduated from the University of Vermont with a...
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Fred H. Dickson
Aurora, IL Business Law Attorney with 38 years of experience
Business, Estate Planning, Probate and Tax
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Fred is a fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estate Counsel, an honor bestowed upon very few attorneys. He focuses in the areas of estate and tax planning, trust, estate and probate administration, and business structuring and counseling. Fred enjoys helping people accomplish their personal goals. He has an extensive background assisting clients in the transfer of small businesses and farms during their lifetime or at death while minimizing taxes and expenses. Many of his estate plans are sophisticated and involve using wills, trusts, limited liability companies, family limited partnerships and other closely held entities. He has...
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Lawrence W. Lobb
Batavia, IL Business Law Attorney with 26 years of experience
Business, Bankruptcy, Collections and Estate Planning
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Theresa Johnson
Westmont, IL Business Law Attorney with 28 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Entertainment & Sports, Immigration and Workers' Comp
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
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David J Fish
Naperville, IL Business Law Attorney with 24 years of experience
Business and Employment
Northern Illinois University
David is also well-respected in the legal community. For example, he was named an Illinois “Rising Star” attorney by Law and Politics Magazine during 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. He also received a 5.0 out of 5.0 “preeminent” ranking from Martindale Hubbell. David has, on several occasions, lectured at educational seminars for lawyers and other professionals. He has moderated a continuing legal education panel of federal magistrates and judges on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, he has presented before the Illinois State Bar Association on electronic discovery rules, and he testified before the United States Judicial Conference...
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Dallas T. Bartz
Aurora, IL Business Law Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Business and Estate Planning
University of Illinois College of Law
Dallas was raised in Charleston, Illinois where he was close to his Alma Mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There he received his Bachelor of Science in Finance in 2007 and his Juris Doctor in 2011. He was admitted to practice law in the State of Illinois in 2011. He was later admitted to the United States District Courts for both the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois. He formerly practiced as a public interest attorney in Rockford, Illinois, and as an insurance defense attorney in Joliet, Illinois. He now specializes in estate planning, trust and estate administration,...
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Markus May
Naperville, IL Business Law Attorney with 32 years of experience
Business
University of Colorado - Boulder
Markus May is a client focused and service oriented business attorney with knowledge in a broad range of industries. He enjoys helping clients complete business transactions including the purchase and sale of businesses. Mr. May previously worked as a business manager and is very familiar with business drivers and financial concepts and relates well to business owners and managers dealing with financial matters. Mr. May often represents clients desiring to start a new business on choice of entity decisions, forming entities and maintaining company compliance with regulatory requirements. He advises clients on how to avoid disputes and litigation and...
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Jonathan Linnemeyer
Lisle, IL Business Law Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Business, Construction, Real Estate and Securities
Northern Illinois University
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G. Tyler Stevenson
Batavia, IL Business Law Attorney with 11 years of experience
Business, Collections, Estate Planning and Family
Northern Illinois University
Tyler's practice emphasizes business organization and planning (including business formation and corporate maintenance); municipal law; creditors' rights (including foreclosures and collections); commercial law; real estate (including land use and zoning law); and estate planning.
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John S. Burke
Geneva, IL Business Law Attorney with 32 years of experience
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Jeffrey Kabbe
Naperville, IL Business Law Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Business, Elder and Estate Planning
Northwestern University School of Law
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Steven R Johnson
Wheaton, IL Business Law Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Business, Construction, Insurance Defense and Real Estate
The John Marshall Law School
Steve is an active trial attorney and is admitted to practice in Illinois and several Federal Courts. Steve has represented clients in a variety of state and federal courts in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. Steve’s practice areas include Catastrophic Loss Litigation involving Subrogation and Defense, Insurance Coverage Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Real Estate Development and Property Leasing, Defending Complex Class Action Claims under the Truth In Lending Act and Consumer Fraud Statutes, as well as some Appellate Practice in these areas. In addition, Steve is...
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Nick Bathas
Mokena, IL Business Law Attorney
Business, Appeals, Securities and Tax
Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
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Rachael J. Leah
Lisle, IL Business Law Attorney with 4 years of experience
Business, Appeals and Real Estate
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Azam Nizamuddin
Wheaton, IL Business Law Lawyer with 26 years of experience
460 S. County Farm Road
Wheaton, IL 60187
Business, Domestic Violence, Employment and Family
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Charles Wentworth
Glen Ellyn, IL Business Law Lawyer
536 Crescent Blvd
Ste 200
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Business and Appeals
Charles is a shareholder at Lofgren & Wentworth, P.C. in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where he practices business, property, and appellate litigation. After graduating in the top 3% of his law school class at the University of Utah, he clerked for Chief Justice John T. Broderick of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He then became a litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP before opening Wentworth Law Offices. Charles' experience as an officer and director of multiple closely-held companies also gives him practical business and real estate experience. He is active in the DuPage County and Illinois State Bar Associations, where...
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Carlo G D'AGostino
Wheaton, IL Business Law Lawyer with 30 years of experience
Business, Elder, Family and Real Estate
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Nora Marsh
Burr Ridge, IL Business Law Lawyer
Business and Estate Planning
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Robert Shipley
Chicago, IL Business Law Attorney with 45 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, 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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James G Militello III
Woodstock, IL Business Law Attorney with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Collections, Estate Planning and Real Estate
The John Marshall Law School
Attorney Militello is the Managing Parter at Prime Law Group, LLC. Prime Law Group is truly a team of lawyers and staff. Our collaborative approach often takes the form of cooperation to share past experiences and develop creative approaches to new issues. This team approach has the additional advantage that if a new issue suddenly arises or an existing project becomes a top client priority, we can quickly assign additional lawyers who will already have the background necessary to tackle the problem at full speed.
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Robert D. Kreisman
Chicago, IL Business Law Attorney with 48 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, 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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Andrew B. Gordon
Chicago, IL Business Law Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Business and Tax
Illinois Institute of Technology
Andrew B. Gordon is the founder and managing attorney of Gordon Law Group, an aggressive tax & business law firm in Chicago. Andrew works diligently to ensure the people he helps get the best possible results. And he fights relentlessly for clients’ best interest, saving them thousands of dollars all while providing them with peace of mind.
Not only is he a practicing attorney who graduated from Chicago Kent College of Law, but he is also a Certified Public Accountant with a BA and Master’s Degree from the University of Illinois.
During Law School, Andrew volunteered at the school’s Low Income Taxpayer...
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Celiza (Lisa) Bragança
Skokie, IL Business Law Attorney with 31 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, 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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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 ConsultationBusiness, 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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Jane Kim
Chicago, IL Business Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, International and Real Estate
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, University of Illinois - Chicago and Oxford University- St John's College- England
I focus my practice on business transactions and disputes. Love working with international clients. In 2017-2019 I spent two years living and working as the senior counsel in the Middle East, advising C-suite executives on quarter-billion-dollar PPP projects. My clients either live in the US and do business abroad, or they are foreign nationals investing in the US. I have experience in international business transactions in Canada, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. I also represent clients in federal court, having been admitted to several federal courts and a federal trial bar in the US.
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