Practice Areas - Civil Litigation
- Business Organization
- Contracts
- Commercial Law
- Corporate Law
- Elder Law
- Municipal Law
- Personal Injury Law
- Probate Law
- Real Estate Law
- Brain Injury
| - Automobile Accidents and Injuries
- Wrongful Death
- Probate Litigation
- Trusts and Estates
- Contested Trusts and Estates
- Estate Planning
- Decedents Estates
- Fiduciary Law
- Wills
- Contested Wills
- Zoning, Planning and Land Use
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| University | Loyola University, B.S., with honors, 1968 |
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| Law School | George Washington University, J.D., with honors, 1971 |
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| Admitted | 1971, District of Columbia and U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (inactive); 1972, U.S. Court of Military Appeals; 1975, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; 1977, Illinois; 1980, U.S. Supreme Court; 1983, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar and U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit |
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| Memberships | DeKalb County (President, 2002-2003), Kane County and Illinois State Bar Associations. |
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| Military | Officer, 1968-1976 Capt. and Judge Advocate, U.S. Marine Corps, 1971-1974 |
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| Born | Red Wing, Minnesota, 1946 |
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| Biography | Phi Alpha Delta. Associate, Keller & Heckman, Washington, D. C., 1974-1977. Private Practice, Sycamore, Illinois, 1976-1979, 1984-1990. Partner: Minnihan & Smith, 1980-1984; Smith & Strauss, 1990-2000; Smith Strauss Tucker & Brown, 2000-2001; Smith Tucker and Brown, 2001-2005; Smith & Tucker, 2005-2006; Smith Tucker Coghlan & Smith LLC, 2007-2008. City Attorney, City of Sycamore, 1990-2003. Treasurer, DeKalb County Republicans, 1980. Chairman: Sycamore United Givers Fund, 1985; DeKalb County Unit, American Cancer Society, 1992-1996; St. Mary's School Foundation, 1997—. President, Sycamore Kiwanis Club, 1990. |
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| Reported Cases | Laue v. Leifheit, 105 Ill.2d 191 (1984); Minnesota v. Cloverleaf Creamery, 449 U.S. 456 (1981); Society of the Plastics Industry v. OSHA, 589 F.2d 2362 (2nd Cir. 1975); Natick Paperboard v. Weinberger, 524 F 2d 1103 (1975); Falkner v. Hinckley Parachute, 533 N.E. 23 941 (1988); Eckhardt v. Kirts, 179 Ill.App.3d 863, 534 N.E.2d 1339 (2d Dist. 1989). |
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| ISLN | 903601960 |
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