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311 South Wacker Drive 3000 , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Business ,Corporate ,General Practice

Suite 4200 20 N. Wacker Drive , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Appellate , Arbitration, Arbitration & Mediation, Non-Profit Corporations, Business

Firm: Julie Kolodziej - JPR Law

, Chicago , Illinois 60012

Practice Areas: Business, Wills, Trusts, & Probates

Firm: JP Younan & Associates

5700 N Lincoln Ave , Chicago , Illinois 60659

Practice Areas: Business, Real Estate, Estate Planning

Firm: Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP

225 West Wacker Drive , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Civil , Corporate , Employment & Labor , Bankruptcy & Debt, Bankruptcy & Debt, Bankruptcy & Debt, Business, Business

Firm: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith

550 West Adams St. , Chicago , Illinois 60661

Practice Areas: Corporate , Insurance , Internet , Professional Malpractice, Business

JOSH M. KANTROW is a partner at Lewis Brisbois with a focus on computer and internet-related liabilities, including privacy, data security and technology litigation. He is an experienced litigator and savvy negotiator often retained by clients in crisis management situations. Josh also concentrates his practice in professional liability matters, with additional experience in bad faith and punitive damages matters. Clients frequently retain Josh on litigation throughout the United States involving high exposures and appreciate his ability to take over difficult cases and produce great results.. Josh’s previous experience managing claims enables him to view legal issues from the client’s perspective. Several years ago he was seconded to theLondoninsurance market where he worked directly with leading Lloyd’s claims and underwriting personnel to manage complex litigation, analyze claims, counsel on contract wordings, and assess risk. Josh also previously served for three years as outside counsel for a bedding manufacturer, managing claims and providing transactional advice.. Josh has been a featured speaker at approximately 35 seminars, including seminars conducted across the U.S.and in Europe. His recent presentations at major conferences have focused on data security and cyber liability issues, e-discovery and crisis management litigation strategies. Josh has been interviewed by Business Insurance and Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and also has published articles on cyber liability and litigation tactics.. Prior to moving to Chicago, Josh spent a semester in law school at the Université Aix-Marseille in Aix-en-Provence,France, in 1988; interned at the U.S. Claims Court inWashington,D.C., for a federal judge in 1989; and practiced in New Orleans for five years.. Practice Details. Cyber Liability. In the area of cyber liability, Josh has recently: (a) successfully defended a media network that provides interactive online advertisements in a high-exposure, high-profile cyber class action matter; (b) worked with counsel in Florida and Washington State to defeat the plaintiff's complaint against an online legal rating agency, upholding the client’s right to post its ratings of lawyers and doctors online; (c) negotiated the favorable resolution of a complex and highly publicized multimillion-dollar data theft claim against a technology service provider for slightly less than 20 percent of the value of the multi-million dollar claim, despite evidence demonstrating that the service provider was responsible for the loss. The claim, pursued by several major U.S. banks and credit card issuers, involved coordinated theft of data in transit from hundreds of automatic teller machines; and (d) won dismissal of claims brought by a putative class of 82,000 individuals against a health care service company alleging negligence and violation of the Stored Communication Act, Illinois Personal Information Protection Act, HIPAA and Illinois Consumer Fraud Act.. Professional Liability. Josh handles a wide variety of professional liability coverage matters involving directors and officer’s (D&O) liability and fiduciary liability claims against professionals in the financial services, insurance, real estate, legal services and medical fields. As crisis management counsel, Josh defended foreign insurers in a complex professional liability coverage dispute against a involving a $25 million policy limit. Through aggressive litigation and savvy negotiations, Josh was able to attain a settlement at a significant discount off of the $25 million policy limits claim. He achieved a highly favorable settlement for another client in a D&O coverage dispute due to hisdiscovery of a policy defense that had been missed by the client’s former counsel. Josh also has a growing practice in professional liability defense.. Bad Faith and Punitive Damages. In the area of bad faith and punitive damages, Josh has: (a) first-chaired a first-party bad faithinsurance coverage trial for certain London market insurers in an unfavorable southern U.S. venue involving more than $25 million in claims. After trying the declaratory judgment phase of the case and obtaining significant rulings in his client’s favor, the case settled for a nominal amount; (b) assisted a Louisiana business association in convincing the Louisiana Supreme Court to reverse the award of punitive damages against a major refinery. This ruling has significant precedential value; and (c) as punitive damages counsel of record, worked with Kentucky counsel and two amicus organizations on briefs that convinced the Kentucky Supreme Court to overturn a $3.75 million punitive damages verdict against a hospital.

Firm: Lawrence Kamin Saunders & Uhlenhop LLC

300 S. Wacker , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Corporate, M & A, Business, Estate Planning, Trusts, Tax, Tax Fraud, Corporate & Incorporation

Joseph is known for his ability to make sophisticated legal issues and tax planning understandable and is highly regarded for his devotion and commitment to the diverse needs of business clients. Joseph represents corporations, partnerships and tax-exempt entities, as well as family-owned and other closely-held businesses, and their owners. He also represents high net worth individuals, lottery winners and professionals, including doctors, lawyers, accountants and wealth management advisors.. Joseph advises his corporate and business clients on critical financial, tax and business matters, including entity structure and formation, and asset ownership for asset protection and tax savings. He also assists closely-held and family-owned businesses and their owners with business succession planning for wealth preservation and to transition the business/ownership to younger generations and key employees. Joseph offers his individual clients a full range of estate, trust and tax planning services, from the drafting of wills, complex trust agreements and advanced wealth-preservation plans, to the formation of family foundations and other philanthropic entities to accomplish charitable objectives.. In addition to income and estate tax planning, a significant portion of Joseph's tax practice involves representing individual, business and corporate clients in administrative tax-controversy matters before the Internal Revenue Service and the Illinois Department of Revenue. Joseph is frequently asked by banks and financial consultants in the Chicago area to speak on wealth preservation, tax and estate planning, and business succession.. When not finding solutions to meet his clients' needs, Joseph enjoys spending time with his wife Karen and children Dominic, Gianna, Mia, Isabella and Vincent.

One Prudential Plaza   3800  6060 , Chicago , Illinois 60601

Practice Areas: Business ,Business Organizations,Labor

Firm: Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, P.C.

191 North Wacker Drive Suite 1800 , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Corporate , Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities , Business

Firm: Law Office of Jon M Adler

161 N. Clark St. Suite 4700 , Chicago , Illinois 60601

Practice Areas: Business

Firm: Schopf and Weiss LLP

One South Wacker Drive   2800  60 , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Business ,Environmental

311 South Wacker Drive 3000 , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation,Business ,Environmental

Firm: Grant Park Legal Advisors LLC

307 N. Michigan Ave , Chicago , Illinois 60604

Practice Areas: Business

Attorney John Wood is an entrepreneur at heart and began his career in the business world in 1984 by taking the Real Estate Brokers Exam in Wisconsin at the age of 18. He continued to pursue his academic studies at Nicolet College until graduation. After completion of his degree at Nicolet, John moved to central Illinois where his family had relocated. He accepted a position in accounts receivable management for Southern Illinois School of Medicine. During his tenure at SIU Medical School, John diligently completed two Bachelor of Arts degrees at University of Illinois, Springfield. Seeking to continue to pursue his academic interests, John studied at the DePaul College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. He completed his academic career, receiving a Juris Doctor from DePaul and being admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1997. While at DePaul, John discovered a new career path and passion that allowed him to focus on his desire to build a business and provide a meaningful service to his clients.

70 West Madison Street 3100  6060 , Chicago , Illinois 60602

Practice Areas: Business ,Corporate ,Professional Malpractice,Securities

Firm: Kaufman Dolowich Voluck LLP

135 South LaSalle Street , Chicago , Illinois 60603

Practice Areas: Business Organizations, Business

John D. Purdy, Jr., B.A. (Econ.), Yale University, 1963 and J.D. 1966, University of Chicago Law School, was an associate and then an equity partner in Ross & Hardies (1966-1983), a founding partner in Siemon, Larsen & Purdy (1983-1991), a partner in Martin, Craig, Chester & Sonnenschein (1991-2002) and a partner in Momkus McCluskey LLC prior to becoming Of Counsel to Baugh, Dalton, Carlson & Ryan LLC (now Kaufman Dolowich Voluck LLP).  He concentrates his practice in the representation of lenders and numerous closely held businesses, and the owners of such businesses. Among his clients are banks and asset based lenders, financial intermediaries, software developers, a number of internet based companies, an international freight forwarder and customs broker and an independent record storage company. John has attained the Martindale-Hubbell AV rating. His experience and achievements include:. John is a member of the American, Illinois State and Chicago Bar Associations. Born in 1941 in Chicago, he currently resides in the Village of Clarendon Hills. Telephone:; E-mail:. In addition to his law practice, he has owned and participated in small businesses, which has given him a working knowledge of the business and legal issues encountered generally by small businesses and their owners.. An elected or appointed municipal official for more than 25 years, he has lectured on land use and municipal topics at seminars presented by Prentice Hall and the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (IICLE).

330 N Wabash , Chicago , Illinois 60611

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation,Appellate ,Business ,Civil ,Environmental ,Telecommunications

Firm: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

222 North La Salle Street , Chicago , Illinois 60601

Practice Areas: Aviation & Aerospace, Equipment Finance and Leasing, Leases and Leasing, Business

Firm: Flamm, Teibloom and Stanko, Ltd.

20 North Clark Street   22 Floor  606 , Chicago , Illinois 60602

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial,Business ,Estate Planning,Health Care & Hospitalization,Probate ,Real Estate

330 N Wabash , Chicago , Illinois 60611

Practice Areas: Business ,Civil ,Condemnation & Eminent Domain

Firm: Heeg Law, PLLC

875 North Michigan Avenue , Chicago , Illinois 60611

Practice Areas: Business