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When Marks, Marks and Kaplan, Ltd.
dissolved after 62 years serving the Chicago legal community,
Gordon & Rappold LLC was founded by a group of the firm's
former partners intent on maintaining the long-standing tradition
of excellence and innovation. Gordon & Rappold is committed
to providing legal solutions and counsel that minimize the
possibility of costly disputes and help the client manage
risk. When disputes do arise, our focus is on protecting our
clients' interests. We provide innovative and practical legal
services in an environment which promotes demonstrated teamwork
and true collaboration among our highly-skilled attorneys,
some of whom have practiced together for more than 20 years.
Having the flexibility to blend our vast experience in order
to integrate imagination and vision to our clients' long and
short term needs is what makes Gordon & Rappold unique.
At Gordon & Rappold, we stay focused - one lawyer, one
client, one matter at a time. We strive to always provide
personal attention and we are proud of the long-term relationships
we have maintained with our clients. At Gordon & Rappold
we blend that small firm spirit and economics with big firm
savvy and skill.
CIVIL LITIGATION
Our nationally known litigators counsel clients on both the
strategy and economics of civil disputes. We make an effort
to create relevant solutions and we deliver them. Our lawyers
have in-depth experience in all commercial and business litigation
matters from jury and bench trials to mediation and arbitration.
We are trial lawyers and in addition to business litigation,
we win medical malpractice, wrongful death and serious personal
injury cases. Our practice includes representation of many
professional athletes in injury and workers' compensation
matters. We also represent large groups of litigants in national
class actions and defend corporations who are the targets
of class actions. The Gordon & Rappold litigators have
extensive experience in State and Federal trial and Appellate
Courts, including the United States Supreme Court.
REAL ESTATE
Our real estate attorneys are well versed in all aspects of
residential and planned development, as well as commercial
and industrial transactions. We will take you through the
entire process from acquisition, financing, zoning and development
to sale of property. We negotiate and document the terms of
multi-faceted transactions in order to structure acquisitions
to maximize the clients' profit as well as to create tax advantages.
Our real estate clients include entrepreneurs, developers,
landlords, general contractors, syndicators and investors.
Gordon & Rappold brings extensive experience to a wide
variety of sophisticated real estate transactions across the
country. Our real estate lawyers have the strong business
backgrounds necessary to handle the most complex transactions.
BUSINESS
We take the time to understand our clients' businesses so
that we can anticipate their needs. Our clients rely on us
to provide both legal advice and business experience as we
counsel their everyday needs. We provide sophisticated business
representation to individuals, corporations and partnerships.
Our lawyers are involved in commercial transactions, including
the purchase and sale of assets and businesses, as well as
financing, creating and maintaining corporations, partnerships
and limited liability companies and producing pension and
employee benefit plans. Gordon & Rappold specializes in
the unique issues relating to the family business - large
and small.ESTATE
PLANNING
The estate planning services we provide range from the creation
of simple wills and trusts to the origination of intricate
estate and business succession plans. Our plans are specifically
designed for the needs of the individual client. Gordon &
Rappold provides estate planning advice to a diverse group
of clients, including executives, large and small family groups
and business owners and professional athletes.
For family businesses, for example, our attorneys develop
plans to pass the ownership and control of family businesses
to the next generation through the use of shareholder agreements,
reorganizations and a variety of other arrangements. We listen
closely as our clients articulate their goals and we create
road maps for the future so that entrepreneurs can concentrate
their efforts on growing their business secure in the knowledge
their families are protected in the long term.
PROBATE AND TRUST ADMINISTRATION
Our attorneys represent personal representatives and beneficiaries
throughout the probate process, including opening and closing
estates, counseling executors and trustees regarding tax planning,
the division of assets, and the funding and long-term management
of trusts, as well as the preparation of estate tax returns.
Gordon & Rappold attorneys work to minimize disputes but,
when necessary, provide aggressive litigation services to
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