LAW OFFICES OF RALPH E. ELLIOTT

         A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

     Our firm represents businesses and individuals in legal matters arising in northern Illinois. We include attorneys authorized to practice law in the Illinois trial and appellate courts, the Bankruptcy and U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois, including the trial bar, the Central District of Illinois, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

     We represent our clients in a wide range of areas of law including, the following:

• Commercial Law, Secured Transactions, Finance, Banking, Loan Recovery, Creditors in Bankruptcy, Commercial Collections, Complex, and Multi-Party Litigation.

• Real Estate Litigation including Zoning and Land Use Matters, Foreclosures, Mechanics Liens, Commercial Lease Matters, Premises Liability, Evictions and Forcible Entry and Detainer, Judgment Liens, Encroachment, and Adverse Possession Issues.

• Real Estate and Business Transactions, Asset and Business Purchases and Sales, Commercial, Industrial, Agricultural and Residential Transactions.

• Business and Agri-Business Organizations, Corporation, LLC, Partnership, Limited Partnership, Limited Liability Partnership, and Not For Profit, Organization Creation and Organizational Governance, Dispute Resolution, Financial Issues, Liability and Risk Management, Succession Planning, Dissolution, and Conversion of Organizational Structure.

• Estate and Trust Planning and Administration, Wills, Living Trusts, Estate Tax Planning, Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts, Charitable Gifting Vehicles, Medicaid Planning, Powers of Attorney for Property and Health Care, Probate and Trust Adminstration, Guardianships for Disabled Persons and Minors, Special Needs Trusts.

• We serve defendants and also individuals suffering serious injuries and damage relating to Personal Injury, Property Damage, Wrongful Death, Products Liability, Automobile Accidents, Construction Injury, Farming Accidents, and  Premises Liability.