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Mr. Jacob J. Frost
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Mr. Jacob J. Frost
Spring Valley, IL Lawyer with 17 years of experience
(815) 323-4851 102 E. Saint Paul Street
Spring Valley, IL 61362
Business
University of Illinois College of Law
Jacob J. Frost practices in the areas of estate/trust administration, residential and commercial real estate purchases and sales, business organizations, governmental law, and wills and trusts. Attorney Frost has served and represented clients in the Illinois Valley area for several years. Frost earned his law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law, with high honors in Legal Research and Writing. He received his Associate of Arts degree, summa cum laude, from Illinois Valley Community College and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was admitted to both Phi Beta Kappa...
Mark M Wilson
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Mark M Wilson
Peru, IL Attorney with 27 years of experience
(815) 408-6330 3808 Progress Blvd., Suite A
Peru, IL 61354
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
Mr. Wilson began his legal career in 1996 practicing in Peoria County before relocating to LaSalle County in 2003. In his career, he has successfully tried numerous cases involving motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents, employment disputes, and premises liability. Additionally, he has extensive Appellate Court experience having successfully handled numerous appeals particularly in the area of workers’ compensation. In 2004, he obtained the second largest personal injury jury verdict in Marshall County history at the time. In 2017, he negotiated the largest settlement ever obtained for a workers’ compensation claim with the Chicago Public School District. ...
Lisa Olivero
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Lisa Olivero
Peru, IL Attorney
(815) 224-2030 1611 5th St
Peru, IL 61354
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
Thomas Howard
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Thomas Howard
Peoria, IL Lawyer with 15 years of experience
(309) 306-1095 456 Fulton St.
Ste. 404
Peoria, IL 61602
Free ConsultationBusiness
Marquette University Law School
Licensed to practice since 2008, Thomas Howard has represented numerous financial institutions in litigation to enforce their security interests. Over the past decade, he has assisted community banks in complex commercial workouts involving some of the most sophisticated financial products in the banking industry. He has also litigated in contested contract cases on various legal theories. Since 2015, he has been named both a Rising Star from Super Lawyers and an Emerging Lawyer by Leading Lawyers. He also extensively represents secured creditors in various avenues of commercial loan enforcement through all aspects of litigation, from commercial workouts through...
Shawn Barnett
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Shawn Barnett
Peoria, IL Lawyer with 10 years of experience
(833) 946-2639 701 Main Street
Peoria, IL 61602
Appeals
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Golden Gate University School of Law
Shawn Barnett is a skilled litigator and trial attorney who is dedicated to helping those who have been victimized by law enforcement or correctional officers. He has received multiple million-dollar settlements for his clients and has been recognized as an Illinois Rising Star multiple times. During his time as an attorney, Shawn has represented numerous clients who have been injured by those who have abused their authority. He has vigorously pursued a wide variety of claims on behalf of his clients, including false arrest, malicious prosecution, excessive force, wrongful death, and sexual assault. Shawn has a particular focus on police involved...
Maureen Williams
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Maureen Williams
Peoria, IL Attorney with 32 years of experience
(309) 999-1177 416 Main Street, Ste. 829
Peoria, IL 61602
Appeals and White Collar Crime
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Since 1993, we've been helping the accused by listening, preparing, protecting, and caring. Founded in Minneapolis in 1993, we have devoted our practice to only criminal defense. You will be asked to be a part of our team, as no one knows the facts better than you. Together we will gather all the evidence, hidden and apparent, the forgotten, and your discoveries. We will not pressure you to plead guilty, and we will brainstorm together to figure out the best course of action: trial or no trial. Allow us the opportunity to listen to you, work with you, fight for...
Jennifer Bunker Skerston
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Jennifer Bunker Skerston
Streator, IL Attorney with 14 years of experience
(815) 672-8505 7 Dannys Drive, Suite 1
Streator, IL 61364
Free ConsultationMichigan State University
Jennifer Bunker Skerston has worked in the Illinois Valley legal community for the past seven years handling many litigation related matters including will contests, property tax appeals, breach of contract, and personal injury claims.

Jennifer Bunker Skerston is actively involved in the Illinois State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Section Council. She is the Editor of the Council’s monthly publication distributed to members throughout Illinois. She also assists the Council in providing continuing legal education to attorneys, determining the need for new legislation, and reviewing and suggesting changes to current legislative proposals affecting wills, trusts and estates....
James Reilly
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James Reilly
Streator, IL Attorney with 44 years of experience
(815) 672-8505 7 Dannys Drive
Suite 1
Streator, IL 61364
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
James T. Reilly has been practicing since 1979. He is an experienced trial lawyer with over fifty jury cases tried to verdict. He concentrates his practice in both civil and criminal litigation. Jury awards include medical malpractice, wrongful death, fraud prosecution and various types of personal injuries. He has defended cases in criminal courts ranging from fitness trials in murder cases to DUI’s. In addition to these, he has successfully defended persons charged with arson, aggravated battery, drug offenses and other felonies and misdemeanors.

Reilly has served as a LaSalle County Assistant Public Defender since 2000. He represents clients before the...
Jerry A Tuffentsamer
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Jerry A Tuffentsamer
Peoria, IL Lawyer with 12 years of experience
(309) 839-8049 1022 N Sheridan Rd
Peoria, IL 61606-1956
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
Southern Illinois University School of Law and Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
native of central Illinois, Attorney, Jerry A. Tuffentsamer, was raised in the local small community of Manito, Illinois. Prior to attending law school, Jerry worked for several years in the central Illinois as union construction laborer out of the Laborers’ International Union, Local 231. As a union laborer, Jerry worked several years for a local commercial concrete and masonry company.

Jerry received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Paralegal Studies/Pre-law from Southern Illinois University in 2008. Jerry then received his Juris Doctor from Southern Illinois University School of Law in 2011. While in law school, Jerry was a member of...
Joe Pioletti
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Joe Pioletti
Eureka, IL Lawyer with 10 years of experience
(309) 467-3213 107 E Eureka Ave #1
Eureka, IL 61539
Free ConsultationBankruptcy
Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
I help people across central Illinois obtain relief from their debt through filing bankruptcy. I represent people in both Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy. I am licensed to practice in Illinois, am a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, and am admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois.

I received my Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Management from Eureka College where I also minored in Spanish. I then received my law degree from Southern Illinois University School of Law. While in law school I worked in the...
Brian Monico
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Brian Monico
Peoria, IL Attorney with 19 years of experience
701 Main St
Peoria, IL 61602
Free ConsultationProducts Liability
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Brian Monico is a skilled litigator who is dedicated to serving those in wrongful death, professional malpractice, personal injury, and civil rights cases.

He graduated from the Loyola University School of Law and has since become a leader in the development and use of computer-generated graphics and electronic presentations to juries. He has been recognized by the Illinois Super Lawyers and Leading Lawyers multiple times, as well as being the #1 Lawyer Under 40 by Emerging Lawyers in 2016.

He has extensive experience doing plaintiff's personal injury work and has used this experience to help those in all types of personal injury...
William Wombacher
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William Wombacher
Peoria, IL Lawyer with 44 years of experience
(888) 541-2088 416 Main St, Suite 700
Peoria, IL 61602
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
University of Iowa
Bill was born and raised in Peoria, IL. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. degree in Government. He received his law degree (JD) at the University of Iowa graduating with honors. He has been practicing law in Central Illinois since his graduation and admission into the Illinois Bar. Legal ability and ethical standards ratings are published each year by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.Bill has the highest possible rating of AV. The legal ability rating is "A" which means he is rated as very high to preeminent. The "V" rating means that he embraces faithful adherence...
Robert J. Hills
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Robert J. Hills
Peoria, IL Attorney with 13 years of experience
(309) 671-3550 411 Hamilton Blvd.
Suite 1400
Peoria, IL 61602
Insurance Defense and White Collar Crime
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
G. Edward Murphy
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G. Edward Murphy
Peoria, IL Attorney with 36 years of experience
(309) 674-5551 456 Fulton Street
Suite 425
Peoria, IL 61602
Free ConsultationAppeals and Arbitration & Mediation
Northern Illinois University
G. Edward Murphy is the Managing Partner of Murphy & Dunn, P.C. and has been one of the best divorce, custody and family law attorneys and lawyers in Peoria, Bloomington and Central Illinois for the past 36 years. He knows how to litigate your case when necessary, negotiate favorably if possible, and win your case for you and your children in court. He is a skilled trial attorney, but also a capable mediator and problem solver. He has been lead counsel running Murphy & Dunn, P.C. for the past 35 years since he was 26 years old and has been winning...
Mary Christine Ludwig
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Mary Christine Ludwig
Pontiac, IL Attorney with 18 years of experience
(815) 844-7151 P.O. Box 407
109 N. Mill St.
Pontiac, IL 61764
Business and Real Estate
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,...
Don Pioletti
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Don Pioletti
Eureka, IL Attorney with 47 years of experience
(309) 467-3213 107 E Eureka Ave #1
Eureka, IL 61530
Free ConsultationReal Estate
George Mason University School of Law
Don B. Pioletti, Jr. has practiced law for over 35 years. He graduated from the George Mason University Law School in Virginia in 1976. He then served as an Assistant Illinois Attorney General and later as an Assistant State's Attorney. He now practices at Pioletti & Pioletti in Eureka, IL doing general practice law.
Thomas P Higgins
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Thomas P Higgins
Peoria, IL Attorney with 33 years of experience
(309) 251-7803 Unit 3276
6310 N. University
Peoria, IL 61614-9800
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation
The John Marshall Law School and Illinois Central College
A 1990 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, I practiced law privately before leaving to teach Criminal Justice and Paralegal courses at Illinois Central College in Peoria, Illinois. Since 1996 I have been retained primarily working for Municipalities as a Hearing Officer. I continue to fill this role in various communities, hearing cases related to building code ordinances, vehicle use and a wide range of municipal tickets written by the police department. In addition, I have many years experience consulting municipal government drafting, facilitating and implementing various ordinances. In addition to this work, I have been...
Charles E. Covey
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Charles E. Covey
Peoria, IL Lawyer with 45 years of experience
(309) 674-8125 416 Main Street
Suite 700
Peoria, IL 61602
Free ConsultationBankruptcy
Valparaiso University School of Law
For over 30 years Charles Covey has been practicing law. He has handled bankruptcy cases during the duration of his three decades of legal practice and for the past decade, he has practiced exclusively in bankruptcy, debt relief and foreclosure defense matters.
Todd Strong
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Todd Strong
Peoria, IL Lawyer
(309) 688-5297 3100 North Knoxville Avenue
Peoria, IL 61603
Workers' Comp
Valparaiso University School of Law
I am a trial lawyer born and raised in Central Illinois practicing in Plaintiff's worker's compensation and personal injury claims. I limit my practice to injured worker's and accident victims. I have practiced at all levels of arbitration and appeals up to and including the Illinois Supreme Court.
Steve W. Hanna
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Steve W. Hanna
Cambridge , IL Lawyer with 33 years of experience
(309) 762-9200 123 W. Exchange Street
Cambridge , IL 61238
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime
Saint Louis University School of Law
Defending client for 26 years in State and Federal Courts. Member of National College for DUI Defense and Graduate of DUI Harvard Session. Certified Field Sobriety Expert. Certified Breath Machine Operator for Datamaster and Intoxillyzer. Advanced Blood and Urine seminar graduate. Suppression of more than 3000 lbs of contraband as Henry County Drug Trafficing Defense Attorney. Success defense of hundreds of DUI and OWI cases in Rock Island, Mercer, Henry, Whiteside, Scott, Muscatine, Johnson, and Clinton Counties in Iowa and Illinois. Successful defense in Federal Court where possession and trafficking of...
Harry M. Williams
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Harry M. Williams
Peoria, IL Attorney with 41 years of experience
(309) 676-7633 414 Hamilton Blvd
Peoria, IL 61602
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
Saint Louis University School of Law
Harry Williams is a trial lawyer and former insurance defense attorney who has practiced personal injury law in Peoria, Illinois, for more than 35 years. His law firm – Peoria Injury Law Center – focuses on cases involving injuries that were caused by the carelessness of another person or a company. Harry fights for the rights of people who have been injured, making sure they receive proper medical care and every financial benefit that is available to them under the law. He is well-known and well-respected in downstate Illinois and has a reputation among his clients for his bold,...
Stephany L. Impson
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Stephany L. Impson
Neponset, IL Lawyer with 50 years of experience
(630) 606-8914 8067 200 East Street
Neponset, IL 61345
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation and Real Estate
University of Illinois College of Law
Stephany L. Impson received her law degree from the University of Illinois. In addition, she has an MBA with emphases in Marketing and Finance from Northwestern University, is a certified Illinois Administrative Adjudicator, and has certification as a Family Law Mediator.

For over three decades, Stephany worked in the title insurance industry. For much of that time, she was a national underwriting counsel. In that capacity, she underwrote and closed transactions for commercial and industrial properties located in the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Canada. In the four years...
Louis Meyer
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Louis Meyer
Peoria, IL Lawyer with 17 years of experience
(309) 713-3751 311 West Stratford Drive
Peoria, IL 61614
Free ConsultationAppeals
DePaul College of Law
Louis J. Meyer, a partner with Meyer & Kiss, LLC, concentrates his practice in Civil Rights, Criminal Law, and Personal Injury. Mr. Meyer is also actively working with Medical Marijuana research and passage of legislation for Medical Marijuana. Prior to founding Meyer & Kiss, LLC Mr. Meyer was an associate with a Chicago law firm concentrating on Civil Rights. Mr. Meyer joined the Chicago law firm in November 2006, after graduating from DePaul University College of Law, Mr. Meyer was the first attorney to join the law firm and helped the firm grow its client base and reputation. During his...
Amira Vicari Hills
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Amira Vicari Hills
Peoria, IL Lawyer
(309) 671-3550 411 Hamilton Blvd
Suite 1400
Peoria, IL 61602
Administrative and Bankruptcy
University of Michigan Law School and Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
Justin Michael Raver
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Justin Michael Raver
Kewanee, IL Lawyer with 16 years of experience
(309) 852-5555 211 West 2nd street
Kewanee, IL 61443
Free ConsultationAppeals, Bankruptcy and Business
Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Justin is a partner and chief executive officer of the firm working primarily out of our Kewanee office. Justin graduated from Southern Illinois University School of Law in 2007 and was hired on with Barash and Everett as an associate thereafter. He is a veteran of the United States navy where he served as a Sonar Technician on the Submarine, USS Nevada SSBN 733. BORN: Decatur, Illinois. ADMITTED TO BAR: 2007, Illinois. EDUCATION: Southern Illinois University (B.A., 2004); Southern Illinois University School of Law (J.D., 2007). MEMBER: American Bar Association; Illinois State Bar Association; Henry County...
James G. Ahlberg
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James G. Ahlberg
Rochelle, IL Lawyer with 45 years of experience
(815) 562-4443 501 6th Avenue
P.O. Box 358
Rochelle, IL 61068
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
University of Illinois College of Law
Lars Eric Ostling
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Lars Eric Ostling
Peoria, IL Lawyer
(309) 676-3030 3100 N. Knoxville Ave.
Suite 215
Peoria, IL 61603
Free ConsultationBankruptcy and Business
Jonathan Lucas Allen Phillips
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Jonathan Lucas Allen Phillips
Peoria, IL Attorney with 13 years of experience
(309) 981-3851 820 SW Adams
Peoria, IL 61602
Free ConsultationCommunications, IP, Patents and Trademarks
DePaul University
Donald Knuckey Jr.
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Donald Knuckey Jr.
East Peoria, IL Attorney with 13 years of experience
(309) 825-9485 4001 East Washington Street
East Peoria, IL 61611
Free ConsultationBankruptcy
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
Noah W. Benckendorf
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Noah W. Benckendorf
Peoria, IL Attorney
(309) 266-6121 101 NE Randolph St.
Peoria, IL 61606
Business and Real Estate
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Noah Benckendorf was born and raised in Morton, Illinois. He graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, IN in 2018 with a degree in history and economics. Noah went on to study law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law where he was a member of the Business Law Association. While in law school, Noah worked for Liberty Mutual Insurance as a law clerk doing insurance defense work. Noah also spent time with Protective Insurance as a law clerk in their corporate legal team. Noah went on to work at first American Title Insurance as a post-closing agent. In...
Paul V Martin
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Paul V Martin
Ottawa, IL Lawyer with 51 years of experience
(815) 434-2000 511 E. Etna Rd
Ottawa, IL 61350
Insurance Claims, Insurance Defense and Real Estate
The John Marshall Law School
Paul is an experienced civil litigation attorney. With a strong background in the insurance defense field for 30+ years, he is a knowledgeable and experienced trial and defense attorney. As well as being a litigator in trial courts, Paul has also argued cases before the Third District Appellate Court and the Supreme Court of Illinois.
He is currently a member of the LaSalle County, Illinois State Bar Assocation and the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel. Paul served on the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Professional Responsibility from 2006 to 2015; and served as a special assistant Attorney General from...
Joseph E. Reed
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Joseph E. Reed
Peoria, IL Lawyer with 18 years of experience
(309) 494-7649 100 N.E. Adams Street
Peoria, IL 61615
IP and Patents
Georgetown University Law Center and University of San Diego School of Law
S. Linn Perkins
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S. Linn Perkins
Peoria, IL Attorney with 33 years of experience
(309) 671-3550 411 Hamilton Blvd
Suite 1400
Peoria, IL 61602
Bankruptcy and Business
University of Illinois College of Law
Jerold Horn
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Jerold Horn
Peoria, IL Lawyer
(309) 676-2778 401 Main Street
Suite 1650
Peoria, IL 61602
Business, Real Estate and Tax
Alex Davis
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Alex Davis
Peoria, IL Attorney
(309) 673-0797 101 NE Randolph Ave.
Peoria, IL 61606
Business and Real Estate
Alex was born in Galesburg, Ill., and has lived in rural western and central Illinois throughout his life. He attended Knox College in Galesburg, graduating in 2011 with a double major in History/Political Science. Prior to law school, Alex worked as a special education aide at West Central High School in Biggsville, Ill., where he coached the football and track teams.Alex earned his J.D., cum laude, in 2016 from the Saint Louis University School of Law. Alex married his wife Joni in October 2021. They live in the Groveland area along with their two dachshunds and two cats. They welcomed...
Edgar Weer
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Edgar Weer
Peoria, IL Attorney
(309) 694-6700 456 Fulton Street
Suite #150
Peoria, IL 61602
Bankruptcy
Paul M Brodersen Sr.
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Paul M Brodersen Sr.
Washington, IL Lawyer
(918) 729-6755 200 Walnut Street
P.O. Box 213
Washington, IL 61571
Business
Louis T. Wierenga
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Louis T. Wierenga
HInsdale, IL Lawyer with 15 years of experience
(847) 749-1131 3 N. Grant St., Ste. 402
HInsdale, IL 60521
Free ConsultationBusiness and Tax
Valparaiso University School of Law
Services We Provide Include: • Probate & Estate Planning: Estate Administration, Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Living Wills; • Business Formation & Transactional Matters: Creation of Business Entities (i.e. LLC, Corp., Partnerships) & Other Business Agreements including Mergers & Acquisitions; • Income Tax Returns: Planning & Preparation (Individuals, Partnerships, Corp., Trusts, Gift & Estate Tax, Tax-Exempt Org., Payroll & Others); and • Audits & Appeals: Representation in Problematic Tax & Regulatory Matters.
Andrew B. Gordon
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Andrew B. Gordon
Chicago, IL Lawyer with 12 years of experience
(847) 580-1279 180 N Lasalle
#3700
Chicago, IL 60601
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...
Donald J. Ramsell
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Donald J. Ramsell
St. Charles, IL Lawyer with 39 years of experience
(800) 342-5384 12 S. Riverside
Ste 2-I
St. Charles, IL 60174
Free ConsultationAppeals
DePaul College of Law
Donald J. Ramsell, author of several DUI articles and books, is the one of the few DUI defense attorneys to appear and argue on a DUI case before the United States Supreme Court in its entire 213 years of existence. In his 33 year career his firms have defended 15,000 clients.

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