Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
• Business Formation
• Business Disputes

Employment Law

• Employment Discrimination
• Employment Contract
• Sexual Harassment

Health Law

• Medical Malpractice
  Judge William James Haddad (Ret.) served as a civil trial judge in the Law Division’s Jury Section of the Circuit Court of Cook County. He has presided over 350 civil jury trials in Cook County, including complex commercial matters, medical malpractice, product liability, and major accident cases.
• Disability Discrimination
  Defended our business clients against race, gender, religious and disability discrimination charges before the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC), Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR), Cook County Commission Department of Human Rights, and the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations;

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Our estate planning attorneys have over 40 years of expertise and experience to help you arrange your estate and final affairs so your hard-earned assets are passed down to the next generation with the minimum of tax liability, maximizing family harmony and reducing the risk of intra-family litigation.
• Wills
  Worked with clients and their religious advisors to draft Living Wills and Medical Powers of Attorney conforming to such clients’ religious teachings and beliefs.
• Trusts
  Probate is not the only method of transferring assets of a deceased individual to others after death. Living trusts, transfer on death instruments, joint tenancies, and beneficiary designations are alternative estate planning tools that can be used to transfer a decedent’s assets without the need for Probate.
• Power of Attorney
  Schlack & McGinnity prepares personal estate plans for families with estates of all sizes, including Wills, Living Wills, Durable Powers of Attorney for Property and Health Care, as well as many types of Trusts, including Testamentary Trusts, Revocable Living Trusts, Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts; Special Needs Trust and Look-Through Retirement Benefits Trusts.   We regularly appear in Probate Court on contested and uncontested probate matters.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Tax Law
  Schlack & McGinnity provides a wide array of business services including advising on business investment / formation / restructuring, legal and tax matters, contract development / purchase and sale of businesses / contract negotiations / collection enforcement / business litigation.