A boutique law firm committed to guiding you from invention or business idea through business success to create and secure generational wealth for your family.

Family Business Lawyer™️ - patents - trademarks - copyrights - businesses - real estate - wills - trusts

Who We Are

A boutique law firm advising clients in navigating the path from invention or business idea through business success to create and secure generational wealth for their families. We bring Silicon Valley tech and legal expertise to the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor, while serving clients throughout the US and the world. 

We serve our clients from the strengths of our founder’s research, engineering, entrepreneurial, and legal experiences from his doctoral studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working in and contributing to the tech community in Silicon Valley and industry standards bodies, winning and serving as principal investigator on federally funded research and development contracts, commercializing his doctoral research as one of the leading products of an engineering software startup company, and playing a key role in numerous funding, licensing, merger, and acquisition deals, including a successful exit through an acquisition by one of the largest electronic design automation (EDA) companies in the world.

We have also served the intellectual property legal needs of a wide range of clients from individual inventors through to the largest and best-known tech companies in the world, and protected inventions ranging from simple mechanical systems to the most sophisticated scientific and engineering breakthroughs in their field that the world has seen. 

We bring the full breadth of this experience in addition to our legal expertise to bear in providing high quality counseling and service to meet our clients’ individual needs through a close collaboration.

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What We Do

We advise our clients in navigating the path from invention or business idea through business success to create and secure generational wealth for their families. We help entrepreneurs, inventors, creators, and small to mid-size businesses legally own and monetize their inventions, creatives, and brands. We protect their intellectual property through patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. We help clients choose and form the best business entity structures for their goals, as well as maintain their business entities and handle their legal needs on an ongoing basis. We help clients protect their families by establishing and maintaining estate plans that will work as intended when they are needed. We represent clients in real estate transactions, as well. We work closely with our clients to understand their unique needs and implement strategies to provide maximum value. Every client and situation is unique, so we tailor our legal services uniquely for each of our clients and their situations. Read More

Efficiency

Recognizing that the traditional law firm hourly billing model is broken, we offer package pricing and fixed fee pricing for most services so that our clients can effectively budget for their legal investments in their intellectual property, businesses, real estate, and family assets.

 

Professional And Experienced Intellectual Property Attorney

Why Choose Our Firm

Excellent Track Record

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2000+

Client Consutations

93%

Successful Cases

40+

Professional Attorneys

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