Counseled clients on estate planning matters and drafted Wills, Trusts and other estate planning documents. Draft Real estate sales contracts and worked on quiet title and partition actions. Worked closely with lenders when our clients were purchasing or selling real estate. Drafted business formation and business succession documents for limited liability companies, partnerships and corporations. Worked with clients with special concerns involving Medicaid planning, planning for minor children, business succession planning and asset protection planning.Developed and managed numerous probate and trust administration files. Counseled clients on fiduciary obligations of trustees and executors and on the process and procedures of probate and trust administration. Attended court hearings and handled preparing and filing court documents in probate, guardianship, conservatorship, trust administration cases, and managing or terminating testamentary trusts.

Mediated cases at Daley Center Courtrooms regarding disputes related to landlord and tenant issues, credit-card loans, business contracts, and other private civil disputes. Researched and drefted memoranda on various legal questions and open areas of law; filed papers at civil and appelannt courts.

Researched and updated memoranda on legislative bills pending before Illinois Congress.Organized Federal Forfeiture files, as well as researched on delinquent taxpayers for leaseholds on exempt property.Drafted memoranda on questions about policy procedures at the Office of the Treasurer.

Drafted memorandums on various areas of policy and prospective bills. Researched and brainstormed ideas for prospective bills, including a bill to increase funding for technical schools.

Utilized archived library resources and outside sources for biographical sketches of Allied High Command for educational out-bound program