Practice Areas - Asset Protection
- Trusts and Estates
- Business Law
- Limited Liability Entity Law
- Tax Planning
| - Income, Estate and Gift Tax Planning
- Commercial Real Estate
- Residential Real Estate
- Estate Planning
- Estate Litigation
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| University | Harvard University, A.B., magna cum laude, 1969 |
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| Law School | University of Chicago, J.D., 1972; Yale University, LL.M., 1973; John Marshall Law School, LL.M., Tax, 2000 |
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| Admitted | 1972, Illinois; 1974, New York and District of Columbia; 1976, California; 1977, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 1983, Indiana; 1984, U.S. Supreme Court; 1989, Texas |
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| Memberships | Chicago Bar (Member, Sections on: Trust Law; Probate Practice; Elder Law and Asset Protection Committees); Illinois State Bar (Member, Sections on: Trusts and Estate and Elder Law); American Bar (Member, Sections on: Entity Selection; Family Limited Partnership/LLC and Long-Term Health Care Committees) Associations. |
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| Born | Boston, Massachusetts, January 6, 1948 |
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| Biography | Michael T. Sawyier is the principal lawyer of Sawyier & Williams, LLP. University of Chicago Law Review, 1972. Member, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, American Association of Retired Persons Legal Services Network and Wealth Counsel Network. Member, Advisory Board of the Association of Chartered Senior Financial Planners (ACSFP). Special Counsel, National Association of Financial and Estate Planning (NAFEP). (Also at Chicago and Evanston, Illinois Offices)
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| Reported Cases | Treister v. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (U.S. Sup. Ct. 1984). |
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| ISLN | 904020357 |
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