Leibowitz Law Center

read moreDuring the pandemic response, Lakelaw remains fully operational with our lawyers and staff working both at the office and from home. We are consulting with our clients daily, negotiating and executing transactions, and counseling businesses who are formulating a plan for survival in the future. We are also participating in virtual court proceedings to the extent the same are conducted. Sales is a partner at Bauch & Michaels, LLC, where she concentrates her practice on commercial litigation, business workouts, and reorganizations.

read moreLakelaw's attorneys have represented condominium and homeowner associations, management companies, unit owners, and developers for more than 35 years. We teach others and write extensively in this area of law and are involved in the latest developments of condominium law. What differentiates our practice of condominium law is that we use years of teaching, studying, and practicing corporate governance law to guide associations through the everyday process of managing the properties and projects.

read moreLakelaw's attorneys have helped our clients in acquiring, selling, developing, managing, reorganizing, refinancing, leasing, and constructing hundreds of millions of dollars in apartment buildings, condominium developments, hotels, warehouses, industrial property, military property, storefronts, shopping malls, strip malls, schools, restaurants, and high-end residences. For example, some of our more well-known work through the years have involved, for example, the development of the Wrigley Field rooftops industry in Chicago and the sale of the Purple Hotel in Lincolnwood before it was torn down.

read moreBusiness reflects our lives. Lakelaw's attorneys help you through all stages of your business development from its creation through its growth and eventual winding down and dissolution. We are by your side to advise you, stand with you, and help through the celebrations and over the inevitable rough encounters. Lakelaw's attorneys are knowledgeable about corporate law and processes, as well as the most commonly used form of business ownership today - limited liability companies. We have worked for years with corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships, and even unincorporated associations.

read moreLakelaw attorneys have engaged and fought in the courtroom for decades. Trial work is an essential part of our existence. Seldom a day passes when our lawyers are not in court prosecuting claims or defending our clients. Commercial litigation today focuses on discovery processes, that is, document production and review and pre-trial examination of witnesses. We keep our skills sharpened for such work and thoughtfully take our clients from the filing of the complaint through post-judgment proceedings.

read moreLakelaw's lawyers have represented clients through commercial and business transactions for decades. Transactional work, unlike other areas of law practice, requires that attorneys maximize, within the efficiencies of the transaction, the agreed solutions to problems that do not yet and may never exist. Once you factor in that the terms of the deal need to be negotiated with other persons, the process is a form of art. The core of American business is contract law. Contract law is about consensual undertakings.

read moreBankruptcy is your right under the Constitution and the Bankruptcy Code. In America, an honest debtor is entitled to a fresh start. In bankruptcy you can settle your debts through a chapter 13 bankruptcy payment plan. In chapter 7 bankruptcy, you can get a complete discharge of debt without payments. In either case, an appointed trustee supervises the process. In chapter 13, the trustee collects monthly payments for distributes to your creditors. In chapter 7, the trustee determines if you have property that can be sold for payment to creditors.