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Levenfeld Pearlstein LLC

Litigation Support Guide 2024

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Levenfeld Pearlstein LLC

Levenfeld Pearlstein LLC

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Firm Overview: Formed in 1999, LP was born of the desire to create a different kind of law firm. Many law firms promote their value proposition, which they define as: high quality work, responsiveness, efficiency, and reasonable fees. To LP, those are just the basics of doing good work for clients. LP attorneys understand their clients’ business and industry inside and out, seeking legal solutions that support the client’s long-term business strategy as well as short-term needs.

Trusts and Estates: LP’s Chamber-ranked Trusts & Estates Group helps individuals and families achieve their business and personal goals, whether through gift planning, charitable planning, business succession planning, or estate planning. Partners Lauren Wolven, Sheri Warsh, Stuart Kohn, and Robert Romanoff each have been recognised individually by Chambers.

Lead: Carrie Harrington

Community Association: The Community Association Group at LP has been a recognsied leader in the area of homeowner and condominium association law for over three decades. A one-stop shop for community associations, LP helps solve business problems from A to Z, including contract review, collections, employment issues, litigation, and governance advice.

Leads: Howard Dakoff and Laura Marinelli

Corporate: LP represents business owners, investors, and organisations ranging from mid-sized, entrepreneur-operated companies to large national and global companies. LP strives to understand clients’ business and risk thresholds so they can be active participants in anticipating and satisfying clients’ legal needs.

Lead: Robert Connolly

Financial Services & Restructuring Group (FSRG): LP has extensive experience in commercial lending practice for both lenders and borrowers, including commercial lending, asset-based lending, and real estate lending, as well as all aspects of restructuring, whether in court or out of court, including representation of troubled companies, secured lenders, unsecured creditors, buyers of assets, creditor committees, and fiduciaries.

Lead: Eileen Sethna

Intellectual Property: LP provides clients with a broad range of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, licensing, and transactional services. LP works with clients from large, multinational corporations to independent inventors—and from established, well-known companies to newly formed start-ups.

Lead: George Pavlik

Employment & Executive Compensation: LP routinely advises employers about compliance with the full range of federal, state, and local labor and employment laws, and assists companies in implementing sound policies and practices to avoid problems in the future. When employment disputes arise, LP attorneys litigate them in state and federal courts nationwide and before arbitrators and administrative agencies.

Lead: Laura Friedel

Litigation: LP handles a wide range of business disputes and commercial litigation, including real estate litigation, debtor-creditor disputes, finance and bankruptcy litigation, labor and employment disputes, insurance coverage disputes, and professional liability litigation.

Lead: Jason Hirsh

Real Estate: LP’s Chamber-ranked Real Estate Group handles all types of real estate matters across the country, including acquisitions and dispositions, joint venture transactions, real estate development, commercial leasing, real estate tax structuring, and debt and equity financing. Partners David Berzon, Thomas Jaros and Brian Kozminski have each been recognised individually by Chambers.

Lead: Elizabeth O'Brien

Tax Planning: LP’s tax attorneys focus on a wide range of transactional tax planning and structuring as well as tax controversy matters. They have significant experience in all aspects of federal, state, local, and international taxation, representing public and privately held companies, foreign governments, REITs, pass-through entities, tax-exempt entities, real estate ventures, start-up ventures, entrepreneurs, and corporate executives.

Lead: Michael Tuchman

CHICAGO, IL: 120 S Riverside Plaza, Suite 1800 Chicago, Illinois 60606 312.346.8380

NORTHBROOK, IL: 400 Skokie Boulevard, Suite 700 Northbrook, Illinois 60062 847.441.7676

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Litigation Support Guide 2024
USA - Nationwide
Litigation Finance Deal Counsel
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Litigation Finance Deal Counsel
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Litigation Finance Deal Counsel
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Lawyers
Douglas G Gruener
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Douglas G Gruener
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