Michael F. Bonamarte IV
Michael F. Bonamarte IV
Michael F. Bonamarte IV is a Managing Partner at Levin & Perconti in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in personal injury, medical malpractice, birth injury, and wrongful death. He is a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association’s Board of Managers and a member of the American Association for Justice and Past Chair of its Nursing Home Litigation Group. He has been recognized by Leading Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, Crain’s 2021 Notable Gen X Leaders in Accounting, Consulting and Law, and Crain’s 2023 Notable Litigators and Trial Attorneys and is a recipient of the Jury Verdict Reporter Trial l Excellence Award. Mr. Bonamarte received his B.S. with academic distinction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D. from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, where he was recognized on the Dean’s List.
Colin A. Brietzke
Colin A. Brietzke
Colin A. Brietzke is the founder of Chicagoland Neuropsychology LLC, a multidisciplinary neuropsychological and neuroscientific assessment practice based in Oak Park. Dr. Brietzke’s areas of expertise include acquired brain injuries, dementia, and post-traumatic stress disorder. He has extensive experience assessing a wide range of legal competencies, as well as evaluating malingering and deception. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and a clinical neuropsychologist. His education includes a master’s degree in Forensic Psychology, a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Prior to entering private practice, Dr. Brietzke worked in a variety of clinical and forensic settings, including the DuPage County Probation Department and Elgin Mental Health Center’s Forensic Treatment Program.
William L. Broom III
William L. Broom III
William L. Broom III is a Partner at Barrett, Twomey, Broom, Hughes & Hoke, LLP, in Carbondale, where he concentrates his practice in civil litigation, estate planning, and eminent domain. He has been a Special Assistant Attorney for the Illinois Department of Transportation for eminent domain and land acquisition since 1983. He is active in the Illinois State Bar Association and has served as Chair of its Committees on Professional Responsibility, Healthcare, and Continuing Legal Education. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Broom received his B.S. from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.
Debra S. Chesnin
Debra S. Chesnin
Debra S. Chesnin is a general attorney for the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board in Chicago in the Office of General Counsel. Ms. Chesnin received her B.A. with high honors from the University of Michigan and her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law.
Amy Parise Delaney
Amy Parise Delaney
Amy Parise Delaneyis a Managing Partner at DDV Law, Ltd., which maintains offices in Chicago, Orland Park, and Oak Brook. She focuses her practice on elder law, probate, guardianships, and Medicaid appeals. She has been awarded the title of Leading Lawyer and has been a Super Lawyer for over a decade. She was named one of the Top 60 Female Lawyers in Illinois. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, her M.S. from the University of Illinois Springfield, and her J.D. from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College.
Pauline G. Dembicki
Pauline G. Dembicki
Pauline G. Dembicki is a sole practitioner in Evanston, where her practice focuses on estate planning, trusts, prenuptials, elder law, powers of attorney, probate and trust administration, guardianship administration, and related contested matters. She is a recipient of volunteer awards from IICLE^® and the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Volunteer Award and an award from the North Suburban Bar Association. Ms. Dembicki received her B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Brittany Heitz Goodlett
Brittany Heitz Goodlett
Brittany Heitz Goodlett is a Partner at the Chicago office of Schiller, DuCanto & Fleck, LLP, where she focuses her practice on family law. She has been recognized as an Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star and a Leading Lawyers Emerging Lawyer. Ms. Heitz received her B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her J.D. magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from the DePaul University College of Law.
Catherine E. Lenert
Catherine E. Lenert
Catherine E. Lenert is a Partner at the Elder Law Center and Mickey, Wilson, Weiler, Renzi, Lenert & Julien, P.C., in Sugar Grove where she focuses on estate planning and long-term care/Medicaid planning. She is a member of the Illinois State and Kane County Bar Associations and a Past President and current member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. She has served as a continuing legal education presenter for the Illinois State and Kane County Bar Associations and IICLE^®. Ms. Lenert received her B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her J.D. from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Steven M. Levin
Steven M. Levin
Steven M. Levin is Cofounder of and Senior Partner at Levin & Perconti in Chicago, with more than 30 years of plaintiffs’ personal injury litigation experience and success. He was among the first attorneys in the country to handle nursing home cases and has established a reputation as one of the country’s top litigators in nursing home litigation. He is a member of the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care Leadership Council, an organization dedicated to protecting the rights of nursing home residents and their families, and is also the former Chair of the American Association for Justice Nursing Home Litigation Group. Levin has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer (2013 – 2022) and selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2013. Levin received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Jaye R. Lindsay
Jaye R. Lindsay
Jaye R. Lindsay is an attorney with The O’Fallon Firm in O’Fallon. He concentrates on probate, personal injury, and VA and military law. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and disabled American Veterans. Mr. Lindsay received his B.A. from the University of South Florida and his J.D. and LL.M. in Health Law and Policy from Southern Illinois University School of Law.
Helen Mesoloras
Helen Mesoloras
Helen Mesoloras is Principal at Dutton Casey & Mesoloras, P.C., in Chicago, where she focuses her practice in the area of elder law. Mesoloras is a member of both the National and Illinois Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the Chicago Bar Association and is a Certified Elder Law Attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation. She received her B.A. with honors from DePaul University and her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
Andrea K. Muchin
Andrea K. Muchin
Andrea K. Muchinis a Partner at Schiller, DuCanto & Fleck, LLP in Chicago, where she focues on family law. She is a board member of the Bernard Zell Day School and involved in the Professional and Women’s Divisions of the Jewish United Fund and Shalva. Ms. Muchin received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from the Boston University School of Law.
Ben A. Neiburger
Ben A. Neiburger
Ben A. Neiburger is an attorney at Generation Law, Ltd., in Elmhurst, where he focuses on elder law. He is a past member of the IICLE^® Board of Directors. He is a member of the Illinois State and DuPage County Bar Associations and of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Mr. Neiburger received his B.A. from the University of Illinois, passed the Illinois CPA exam, and received his J.D. from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Peter J. Orlowicz
Peter J. Orlowicz
Peter J. Orlowicz is Senior Counsel for the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board in Chicago, where he focuses on administrative law, employee benefits, and government ethics. He is a Former Chair of the Illinois State Bar Association Standing Committee on Government Lawyers and a Former Chair of the Illinois State University Attorneys Advisory Board. He received a Special Act of Service award in July 2020 for work implementing CARES Act relief legislation. Mr. Orlowicz received his B.S. magna cum laude from Illinois State University and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Lee T. Polk
Lee T. Polk
Lee T. Polk is a Partner with the Wagner Law Group, P.C., in Chicago, where he focuses on employee benefits, employment law, and tax law. He is a member of the American, Illinois State, and Chicago Bar Associations and a Charter Member of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Mr. Polk received his B.A. from Coe College and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Sheryl Ring
Sheryl Ring
Sheryl Ring is the Legal Director of Open Communities Legal Aid in Evanston, where she focuses on housing, consumer and tenant rights, foreclosure defense, and discrimination and civil rights. She is a member of the National Association of Consumer Advocates and the Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Ms. Ring received her B.A. summa cum laude from McDaniel College and her J.D. from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.
Michael R. Robinson
Michael R. Robinson
Michael R. Robinson is an administrative law judge with the Illinois Human Rights Commission in Springfield. He has authored several articles for the Illinois State Bar Association’s Illinois Bar Journal, of which three were cited as winners of the Lincoln Legal Writing Award in 1985, 1986, and 1989. Mr. Robinson received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law.
Sharon R. Rudy
Sharon R. Rudy
Sharon R. Rudy is a sole practitioner in Rockford, where she focuses on adult guardianships, estate administration, and representation of victims of elder abuse and exploitation. She is a member of the Illinois State and Winnebago County Bar Associations and the Illinois Guardianship Association. Ms. Rudy received her B.A. from Carleton College and her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Elisha D. Sanders
Elisha D. Sanders
Elisha D. Sanders is a Partner at Sanders & Twomey, LLC, in Marion, where she focuses her practice on eminent domain, real estate, estate planning and administration, and business and municipal law. She is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law Office Management & Economics and a member of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Character & Fitness. Ms. Sanders received her B.S./B.A. from Southeast Missouri State University and her J.D. from the Southern Illinois University School of Law.
Sandra Blanco Schildgen
Sandra Blanco Schildgen
Sandra Blanco Schildgen is an associate at Wilson & Wilson Estate Planning & Elder Law LLC, in Northbrook, where she concentrates on elder law. She serves on the Board of Directors and is a trust committee member for Life’s Plan, Inc. She was the recipient of the President’s Award and the Above and Beyond Award from the National Association of Securities Dealers. She is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association. Ms. Schildgen received her B.A. from Columbia University and her J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law.
Michael P. Seng
Michael P. Seng
Michael P. Seng is a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, where he focuses on constitutional law, civil rights, and fair housing. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Catholic Lawyers Guild, the Elmer Gertz Lawyer Award from the Illinois State Bar Association and Blind Services Association, and the Leonard Schrager Award of Excellence from the Chicago Bar Foundation. Mr. Seng received his A.B. and his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame and an Honorary Juris Doctorate from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic.
Heather E. Voorn
Heather E. Voorn
Heather E. Voorn is a Partner at Voorn, Jaworski & Preston, PLLC, located in Chicago and New Lenox, where she devotes her legal practice to elder law. She is a member and a Director on the Board of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. She is a member of the Illinois State and Will County Bar Associations and serves on the Board of Directors of IICLE^®. Ms. Voorn received her B.A. from Florida State University and her J.D. from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. She is certified as an Elder Law Attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation, May 17, 2012. (The Supreme Court of Illinois does not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law, and the recognition is not required to practice law in Illinois.)

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Michael F. Bonamarte IV

Colin A. Brietzke

William L. Broom III

Debra S. Chesnin

Amy Parise Delaney

Pauline G. Dembicki

Brittany Heitz Goodlett

Catherine E. Lenert

Steven M. Levin

Jaye R. Lindsay

Helen Mesoloras

Andrea K. Muchin

Ben A. Neiburger

Peter J. Orlowicz

Lee T. Polk

Sheryl Ring

Michael R. Robinson

Sharon R. Rudy

Elisha D. Sanders

Sandra Blanco Schildgen

Michael P. Seng

Heather E. Voorn

Advising Elderly Clients and Their Families (ARCHIVED 2020 EDITION)