Representative Clients: Allstate Life Insurance Co.; Amoco Oil Co.; Commonwealth Edison Co.; First National Bank of Chicago; General Motors Corp.; McDonald's Corp.; New York Life Insurance Co.; Pathway Financial; Seaway National Bank.
Clients
Representative Clients: Aetna Insurance; Algemene Bank Nederland; Allstate Life Insurance Co.; Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; Amoco Corp.; M.R. Beal & Co.; P.A. Bergner & Co.; Campbell Soup Company; Carson Pirie Scott Realty Partnership; Chicago Board of Education; Chicago Dwelling Association; Chicago Transit Authority; Citicorp Mortgage Corp.; City of Chicago; Clorox Company; Commonwealth Edison Co.; Continental National Bank; Digital Equipment Corporation; Dominick's Finer Foods; Female Health Care Associates, Ltd.; First National Bank of Chicago; First Western Mortgage Corp.; Ford Motor Co.; Ford Motor Credit Corporation; GAP Development, Inc.; General Electric Railcar Service Corporation; General Motors Corp.; Illinois Bell; Illinois Development Finance Authority; Illinois Sports Facilities Authority; K Mart Corporation; McDonald's Corp.; Metropolitan Group; National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); New York Life Insurance Co.; Northstar Communication, Inc.; Pathway Financial; Phillip Morris; Prudential Insurance Company of America; Prudential Realty Group; Seaway National Bank of Chicago; State Farm Insurance Company; Superior Mortgage Corporation; Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America; Telemat, Inc.; Union Carbide Corp.
Areas of Practice (7)
Specific Areas of Practice for our Chicago office:
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