Current Employment Position(s)

Principal, since 2006

Lawyer Overview

Areas of Practice

• Banking & Finance Law
• Business & Commercial Law
• Contracts
• Business Organizations
• Reorganizations
• Employment Law -- Employer
• Estate Planning
• Elder Law
• Litigation & Appeals
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Trusts
• Wills
• Real Estate Law
• Taxation Law

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Contracts, Business Organizations, Reorganizations, Estate Planning, Elder Law, Trusts, Wills, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Litigation & Appeals, Mergers & Acquisitions, Probate & Estate Administration, Real Estate Law, Taxation Law

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1998
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 2000
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 2000

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association (ABA), 1999 - Present (Member)
• Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), 1998 - Present (Member)
• Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), Elder Law Section Council, 2005 - 2006 (Member)
• Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), 2008 - Present (Member, Standing Committee on Legislation)
• Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), Trusts and Estates Section Council, 2001 - Present (Member)
• DuPage County Bar Association (DCBA), 1998 - Present (Member)
• DuPage County Bar Association (DCBA), 2000 - Present (Member, Estate Planning and Probate Committee)
• DuPage County Estate Planning Council, 1998 - Present (Member)
• National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, 2000 - 2003 (Member)

Classes and Seminars

• Speaker, Modern Estate Planning, ISBA Law Ed Series, May 16, 2008
• Speaker, Fundamental Estate Planning, ISBA Law Ed Series, October 27, 2006
• Speaker, Fundamental Estate Planning, ISBA Law Ed Series, November 20, 2006
• Speaker, Current Legislation and Case Law Update, CBA Probate Practice - Hot Topics - Part 2, November 16, 2006

Past Employment Positions

• Rolewick & Gutzke, P.C., Associate Attorney, 1998 - 2006
• Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, Legal Clerk, 1997
• McKeown, Fitzgerald, Zollner, Buck, Hutchinson & Ruttle Joliet, Illinois, Legal Clerk, 1997
• Law Offices of Chicago-Kent, Health Law Div., Chicago, Illinois, Legal Intern, 1996
• Chief Judge Herman S. Haase, Will County Courthouse Joliet, Illinois, Legal Clerk, 1996

Education

• Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1998
  J.D.
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign, Urbana-Campaign, Illinois, 1995
  B.A.
  Major: Economics and Finance

Published Works

• A Surviving Spouse Should Be Able to Renounce An Inter Vivos Trust, DCBA Brief, November, 1999
• Case Comments - The Board of Trustees of Community College District 508 v. Coopers & Lybrand, ISBA Corporation, Securities & Business Law Forum Newsletter, April, 2004
• Revenue Ruling 2004-64 Provides Guidance on the Grantor's Payment of Income Taxes for Irrevocable Trust, ISBA Trusts and Estates Newsletter, October, 2004
• Federal Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes, Illinois Estate Planning: The Basics and Beyond, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Chapter 7, 2007

Address

1776 South Naperville Road
Suite 104 A
Wheaton, IL 60187

Phones

(630) 653-1577

Faxes

(630) 653-1579

Emails

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Websites

http://www.rglawfirm.com