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Lisa LaFourcade is a certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law by the California State Board of Legal Specialization. Her practice focuses on advising high-net-worth individuals, privately held businesses, and charitable organizations. Her areas of practice include: Estate, gift...

Jeryll Cohen is the co-chair of the firm's Trusts & Estates Group. She advises clients on complex trust and estate administration and estate and business succession planning as well as multi-faceted litigation and alternative dispute resolution with regard to trusts and estates, family business...

Valisa Carney handles estate planning for clients who wish to provide for a responsible, tax-efficient disposition of their hard-earned wealth. A compassionate and knowledgeable attorney, Valisa establishes a close personal relationship with clients to foster comfort and trust. When a client's loved...

Stanley Kull concentrates his practice in federal, state, and local tax planning for corporations, partnerships, and individuals. This includes partnership taxation, tax issues affecting real estate developers and investors, business and succession planning, corporate reorganizations, S corporations...

Anne Greene has broad experience in a variety of employee benefits matters, such as compliance for employee retirement plans, health and welfare plans, cafeteria plans, wrap plan documents, COBRA, the Affordable Care Act, plan claims and appeals processes and claim disputes, and prohibited...

Tom Laser is an experienced trial attorney with a focus on general litigation. Businesses, municipalities, colleges and universities, and individuals in Illinois and across the country look to him for representation in consumer financial services litigation (including class actions), appeals, tax...

Tom Murray is a patent agent who helps clients protect their intellectual property through patent preparation and prosecution, as well as analyses involving freedom to operate, non-infringement and invalidity. Tom also has experience with matters involving post-grant prosecutions. His IP work for...

Immigrating to the U.S.? Don’t Forget about Tax. Immigrating to the United States has many wonderful benefits, but it also includes some challenges. When a person comes to the U.S. as a resident, that person must comply with U.S. tax rules, including paying taxes on world-wide income. U.S. tax law...

Kate Winslow provides strategic legal advice on executive compensation, qualified retirement plans, and health and welfare benefits, taking into account tax compliance, corporate governance requirements, and employee morale. Senior executives and in-house legal teams for multinational corporations...

Jessica Lenoir, Ph.D., helps clients protect their intellectual property by drafting patent applications and preparing office action responses to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and foreign offices. In handling this work, Jessica draws on her knowledge from earning a doctorate in...

Jamihlia Johnson helps multi-national companies and high-net worth clients navigate complex tax controversies with federal and state agencies and provides legal advice to guide their development of tax planning strategies and compliance. With experience representing clients in the United States...

A Strong Link in a Complex Chain For restaurants, bars, hotels and others in the hospitality industry, the complexities of serving the public and managing service employees, while striving for profitability and growth, can prove daunting. Acquisitions and investments, capital projects, regulatory...

Thomas McGuire's practice is concentrated in the areas of estate planning, probate and trust administration, and taxation. Thomas has substantial experience representing a broad range of individuals, financial institutions and tax-exempt organizations in connection with their estate planning and...

A key component of a company’s intellectual property strategy is the protection of its industrial designs, including the ornamental features of products, graphical user interfaces, icons and fonts, to combat competitors copying its products. Industrial design protection fills a niche between (and...

Jon Barooshian brings almost three decades of experience as a litigator to the table, in his work for business clients facing criminal and civil proceedings involving white collar claims and tax controversies, as well as in complex commercial disputes. A seasoned trial lawyer and former state...

David Shapiro advises clients on international and domestic business tax planning, including domestic and cross border expansion, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and financing transactions. David's practice includes entity formation and structure planning, securities offerings and hybrid...

Mary Harmon focuses her practice on advising corporations and passthrough entities on tax and contractual issues. Clients look to her for counsel on U.S. federal, state, local, and foreign tax compliance and planning issues, including matters relating to subchapter C, subchapter K, subchapter S and...

Kevin T. O'Brien, Ph.D., is a patent agent who focuses his practice on intellectual property (IP) matters including patent preparation and prosecution, patent landscape analyses, and freedom to operate analyses. Kevin practices in the physical and life sciences space, where he works on technologies...

Andrew Schwerin represents clients in patent and trade secret litigation on both the plaintiff and defense sides of these disputes. Outside of his litigation work, Andrew counsels clients on their IP strategy. Andrew has represented clients in connection with a range of technologies including...

Michelle Streifthau-Livizos represents clients in litigation matters, including disputes involving the Hatch-Waxman Act, patents, copyrights and trademarks. She handles cases involving various types of technology, including representations of pharmaceutical companies, life sciences companies...