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mbeem@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7203
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Mr. Beem’s practice consists of commercial disputes, including litigation involving professional responsibility, contractual disputes, securities law, the liability of corporate directors and other company officers, constitutional law and real-estate-related matters. In addition, he is involved with bankruptcy matters, workouts and related litigation. Mr. Beem also advises non-public schools and other not-for-profit entities.
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mwells@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7211
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Ms. Wells has represented companies, individuals, and government agencies and officials in complex litigation matters in both state and federal court. Her practice involves a wide variety of substantive areas of the law, including legal ethics, constitutional law, commercial law, professional liability, FOIA, and family law matters.
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ablock@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7245
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Ms. Block represents clients in a variety of litigation matters, focusing on defending legal malpractice claims and advising attorneys and law firms with respect to professional responsibility and ethical issues. She also has broad experience representing both employees and employers in employment contract, non-competition, and employment discrimination and harassment litigation before the state and federal courts and the EEOC. Additionally, she advises independent schools on employment and compliance matters. Ms. Block also has been involved in First Amendment and other civil liberties litigation as counsel for parties and amici.
Ms. Block is a trained and certified mediator and has been involved in several dozen cases that have resolved successfully through mediation.
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kdawson@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7217
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Ms. Dawson has experience representing clients in federal and state court. Her cases have included corporate disputes, class actions, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud matters. Ms. Dawson also has experience defending attorneys and law firms in legal malpractice disputes. Additionally, Ms. Dawson has represented clients in several complex high net worth divorce cases.
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dfeeney@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7246
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Mr. Feeney has experience in a variety of commercial litigation matters, with substantial experience defending lawyers and law firms in legal malpractice suits. He also advises law firms and lawyers regarding their professional and ethical obligations and has taught a course on legal ethics as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. In his general litigation practice, he has represented an array of business ventures in restrictive covenant, trade secret, copyright, trademark and right of publicity matters and has represented individual clients in disputes regarding the control or dissolution of closely held entities and related fiduciary duty claims. He regularly advises clients in disputes with governmental entities, including land use, public contracting and FOIA matters.
His practice encompasses cases in both state and federal courts at the trial and appellate level. In 2008, the Chicago Law Bulletin selected Mr. Feeney as one of 40 Illinois Lawyers Under Forty to Watch.
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efeldman@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7213
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Mr. Feldman has over thirty-four years’ experience as a litigator. Following a clerkship in the U.S. District Court, Mr. Feldman spent two years trying criminal and civil cases at Northwestern University Legal Clinic. Since joining this firm in 1988, he has developed an extensive commercial litigation practice cutting across many areas of law, in both individual and class actions in federal and state courts. His areas of concentration include representing lawyers and law firms in legal malpractice, professional responsibility, and fiduciary duty matters. He also has represented many businesses and individuals in disputes with government over constitutional, statutory or regulatory rights. This governmental litigation has included two landmark cases that have transformed Chicago: the Shakman class action against the State of Illinois, Cook County, City of Chicago and other governmental bodies that has reduced once-endemic political patronage; and the Gautreaux desegregation class action against the Chicago Housing Authority, in which Mr. Feldman represented the Court-appointed receiver responsible for developing new, economically and racially desegregated public housing.
Mr. Feldman has been appointed as a Special Master in federal court and been retained as an expert on matters of professional responsibility. His experience also includes RICO, antitrust, securities, consumer fraud, employment and other commercial disputes. Mr. Feldman has been selected to the Illinois Super Lawyers list every year since its inception in 2005, and has taught trial practice and professional responsibility for many years at Northwestern Law School. In 2011, Senator Richard Durbin recommended Mr. Feldman to the White House for nomination to the U.S. District Court in Chicago. In 2018, Mr. Feldman was appointed by Senators Durbin and Duckworth to serve on the Selection Committee for Judicial Appointments in the Northern District of Illinois.
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zfreeman@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7208
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Mr. Freeman has experience in both federal and state court in a variety of contexts. He has represented clients in professional responsibility matters, legal and medical malpractice cases, partnership disputes, including dissolution and partner relocation. Mr. Freeman also has experience in family law matters, contract and lease disputes, defamation, product disparagement, and unfair competition cases, antitrust litigation, civil rights litigation, and employment disputes involving wrongful discharge and the enforcement of restrictive covenants. His state court experience covers all levels of the practice from the trial court to the Illinois Supreme Court. Prior to joining Miller Shakman & Beem, Mr. Freeman clerked for the Hon. Ruben Castillo in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Freeman served as a volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa from 1996 to 1998 and worked at Human Rights Watch from 1998 to 2000.
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afriedman@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7214
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Mr. Friedman is experienced in litigating a variety of claims at both the trial and appellate levels, including matters related to estate planning and estate administration, real estate and property taxation, RICO and antitrust claims, legal malpractice claims, and issues of ethics and professional responsibility.
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dklotnia@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7223
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Ms. Klotnia has litigated many complex commercial and legal malpractice cases and is well known for her command of legal ethics. She has represented clients in cases involving legal malpractice defense, attorney disciplinary matters, corporate and partnership disputes, derivative actions and shareholder disputes, RICO litigation, contract disputes, commercial mortgage foreclosure, environmental law, constitutional law and federal civil rights. Ms. Klotnia has been selected to the Illinois Super Lawyers list in 2005, 2006 and every year since 2008.
Ms. Klotnia has been involved in cases in the U. S. District Courts in Illinois, Hawaii, Kansas and Pennsylvania and in the state courts of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Delaware and has participated in appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for the Third Circuit, and to the Illinois Appellate Court and the Wisconsin Appellate Court.
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klevine@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7210
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Ms. Levine’s practice centers around handling disputes between individuals – primarily entrepreneurs – in both the business and personal arenas. In the personal arena, Ms. Levine concentrates on complex, high net worth divorce cases. She brings to these cases a business litigator’s perspective. Further, Ms. Levine’s former career as a social worker, where she worked in crisis intervention, helps her understand the emotional strain of a divorce. In the business arena, Ms. Levine concentrates on partnership disputes, disputes in close corporations and other disputes between individuals that once had close, personal working relationships. Ms. Levine also handles litigation involving business litigation matters. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
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rmiller@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7232
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Mr. Miller has had years of experience in hotel development, financing and operations. In addition, his practice has included developing major office and condominium buildings as well as corporate law, insurance law and trust law.
Mr. Miller has been listed in "Best Lawyers in America," "Who's Who in American Law," "Who’s Who in America" and "Who’s Who in the World." He has served as board member and president of the Board of Visitors of the University of Illinois Law School. He also served on the DePaul Law School Advisors Council and Northwestern Law School’s Institute for International Human Rights. Mr. Miller is chair of the Advisory Board of the Illinois ACLU. He was board chair of the Chicago chapter of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and is a lifetime trustee of that organization’s national board. He is the recipient of the Chicago chapter’s first Award for Lifetime Achievement in Civil Rights, and in 2003 the national body of the Lawyer’s Committee honored Mr. Miller with a Special Recognition Award. In 2002, Mr. Miller was inducted as one of eight awardees as a Laureate of the Academy of Illinois Lawyers at the Illinois State Bar Association's 125th Anniversary celebration. He is also the recipient of the ABA’s Pickering Award, the Illinois ACLU’s Rothschild Award and the American Constitution Society’s Chicago Legal Legends Award.
Mr. Miller has retired from the practice of law and no longer maintains an active law license.
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mpryor@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7220
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Ms. Pryor practices in federal and state court. She has represented clients in a variety of areas including: breach of contract and breach of warranty matters, employment disputes involving the enforcement of restrictive covenants, fraud claims, and breach of fiduciary duty matters. Ms. Pryor also has broad experience representing clients in domestic relations matters, concentrating on complex, high net worth divorces. Additionally, Ms. Pryor represents attorneys and law firms in legal malpractice cases.
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mlshak@aol.com
(312) 759-7250
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Mr. Shakman serves as lead counsel in a wide range of litigation including corporate, contractual, commercial and partnership disputes, professional liability matters, construction disputes and arbitrations, antitrust, trade regulation and product liability litigation. He has also served as lead counsel for public bodies and private citizens in litigation involving governmental actions across a wide range of subjects.
Mr. Shakman frequently represents attorneys, law firms and other professionals in partnership and professional responsibility matters. He may be best known for the federal court Shakman Decrees, which have enjoined patronage hiring and firing of public employees in Chicago and Illinois.
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wkatt@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7221
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Mr. Katt practices in federal and state court. His practice focuses on commercial and family litigation. Mr. Katt advises lawyers and law firms on ethical issues, including representation in legal malpractice litigation. He frequently represents businesses and individuals in commercial litigation involving complex commercial fraud, patent infringement and other intellectual property violations, unfair competition, breach of contract, and employee separation issues. He also frequently represents high-net worth individuals in divorce and related proceedings.
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tstaunton@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7202
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Mr. Staunton represents clients in a wide range of commercial litigation, including health care disputes and disputes relating to partnership and corporate governance, real estate, and general commercial law. He frequently represents defendants against claims of legal malpractice. He also has experience representing clients on issues relating to bankruptcy, securities law, trademark, restrictive covenants, and employment discrimination. He has played a leadership role in the Seventh Circuit’s Electronic Discovery Pilot Program Committee and its efforts to improve the practice of e-discovery in the federal courts. He has tried cases, and argued appeals, in state and federal court. He has extensive arbitration experience, including arbitrations before the AAA, the NYSE, FINRA, and the AHLA.
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dweisman@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7211
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Mr. Weisman has significant trial and litigation experience in both the criminal and civil spheres. He has served as counsel in more than 100 federal criminal matters, and has tried approximately 16 cases to juries, including public corruption matters, fraud, and other federal criminal violations. He has handled all stages of the federal criminal process, including pretrial investigation, trial, sentencing, and appeals. While at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, Mr. Weisman held various supervisory positions including Deputy Chief of General Crimes Section, and Senior Litigation Counsel. Additionally, he received several awards for his work, including two national Director’s Awards issued by the Attorney General’s Office. Mr. Weisman was selected to the Illinois Super Lawyers list in 2013 and 2014.
Mr. Weisman has represented commercial clients in civil disputes as well, and has tried several civil matters to federal juries. In addition, he has represented private clients in connection with federal investigations and grand jury inquiries, and has conducted internal investigations for corporations and due diligence work on behalf of potential investors.
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jschwartz@millershakman.com
(312) 759-7216
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Ms. Schwartz practices in federal and state court. She has represented clients in commercial litigation matters, including professional responsibility matters, legal malpractice cases, and partnership disputes. Ms. Schwartz also has experience in family law matters, contract disputes and civil rights litigation.