I have extensive experience working with various not-for-profit corporations. My work includes corporate governance issues, including moderating board interactions and disputes; contract review; personnel matters; real estate activities involving acquisition and disposition of sites and leasing of space; government grants; and general legal counseling.

I hold a Martindale-Hubbell rating of “AV-Preeminent” in the area of Not-for-Profit Organizations, and have been selected by my peers as a Leading Lawyer in 2023.

I work with safety net health centers that provide medical care and social services to underserved populations. My role in these representations extends to general legal representation of health centers, including close consultation with senior management and boards of directors. I am frequently involved in review of contracts, personnel matters, and corporate governance issues. While I have tried verdict state court cases, the firm’s 50 plus years’ experience in complex commercial litigation provides an important benefit to the clients I serve, including matters that involve subpoenas, personnel matters, and general litigation. I also assist a consortium of Federally Qualified Health Centers that promotes the use and effectiveness of electronic health record technology and associated data warehousing. Recent initiatives include exploration of a clinically integrated network, designed for varying degrees of risk on the part of participating FQHCs, and exploration of an initiative designed to provide electronic health record alternatives to FQHCs.

I have over 35 years’ experience with affordable housing transactions, including layered real estate financings that utilize the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit, the New Market Tax Credit, and the Illinois Affordable Housing Tax Credit, purchase and sale of partnership interests in limited partnerships, entity formation, and loan restructurings. I have often represented for-profit developers and businesses, but have specific experience representing not-for-profit corporations in the negotiation of partnership and operating agreements, sometimes involving profit-motivated entities, as well as assisting not-for-profits with asset acquisitions, real estate development, workouts and asset dispositions — especially in connection with expiring tax credit syndications. Client representations include both local and national affordable housing entities.