Martin, Craig, Chester & Sonnenschein LLP, founded in 1954, is a general practice law firm, having its principal office at 2215 York Road, Suite 550, in Oak Brook, Illinois 60523.

The practice of the firm is concentrated in the representation of closely held business enterprises and their owners. Representative clients include companies engaged in manufacturing and distribution, various service industries, including software developers and internet related businesses, providers of commercial financing, equipment leasing firms, financial intermediaries, transportation and real estate sales, lending, leasing and development, computer software development and marketing. The firm also represents tax exempt organizations, municipalities, and other public entities, and clients appearing before local governmental units in zoning and related matters. All legal services required by its clients can be provided by or through the firm.

• Business Services.

  Attorneys practicing in this area advise owners of closely held businesses in regard to a full range of personal, business and legal matters, including estate and succession planning.

  Business Services include the services required for the organization and operation of the business clients of the Firm and their owners. In addition to general business advice and services, Business Services includes advice on real estate related matters, including financing and construction, zoning and planning issues, state and federal income tax, environmental, ERISA, labor and employment law, transportaion law and related matters, estate planning and other important issues which daily confront small businesses and their owners.

  Real Estate Services.

  Municipal Services.

  Estate Planning Services.

  W.B. Martin Gross, concentrates in general business, estate planning matters and muncipal law matters for clients.

Martin, Craig, Chester & Sonnenschein LLP recognizes that predictability as to the time of delivery and the cost of legal services is as important to our clients as the professional quality of these services. We are, accordingly, committed to three fundamental concepts in providing legal services: responsiveness; active client participation in fee management; and partner accessibility to the client.

Client references will be provided on request.

Attorneys, like other professionals who advise on personal financial matters, are required by federal law to inform their clients of their policies regarding privacy of client information. Attorneys have been and continue to be bound by professional standards of confidentiality that are more stringent than those required by applicable federal law. Therefore, Martin, Craig, Chester & Sonnenschein LLP has always protected its clients' right to privacy. In the course of providing our clients with income tax, estate tax, and gift tax advice, we receive significant personal financial information from our clients. Clients of Martin, Craig, Chester & Sonnenschein LLP, should know that all information that we receive from our clients is held in confidence, and is not released to people outside the Firm, except as agreed to by the client, or as required under an applicable law.

We retain records relating to professional services that we provide so that we are better able to assist our clients with their professional needs and, in some cases, to comply with professional guidelines. In order to guard clients' nonpublic personal information, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with applicable professional standards.

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• Martin, Craig, Chester & Sonnenschein LLP generally requires that, as a condition to the establishment of the attorney/client relationship, all new clients execute an engagement letter which sets forth the relationship between the Firm and the client. No attorney/client relationship is created until the execution and delivery of such an engagement letter.