Beermann LLP: A Sewing-Machine Shop on Milwaukee Avenue, and a Supreme Court Case the Founder Lost

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At a Glance

Firm	Beermann LLP — formerly Beermann Pritikin Mirabelli Swerdlove LLP. The rename happened around 2018; the firm has never explained it.
Founded	1958, by Miles N. Beermann and the late Nathan B. Swerdlove — corroborated four ways, including Beermann’s own bar admission that year
Offices	161 N. Clark Street, Suite 3000, Chicago, IL 60601 (headquarters, city proper). Satellite at 2275 Half Day Road, Bannockburn — suburban, outside this profile’s scope.
Focus	Family law only: divorce, parental responsibilities and parenting time, financial issues, post-decree, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, domestic violence, LGBTQ family matters, sports and entertainment family law, appeals
Size	57 attorneys, counted from the firm’s own roster. The firm’s homepage says “over 40.” See Section VIII.
Distinctive edge	Five seats on the Illinois AAML chapter’s leadership, verified on the Academy’s own roster — including its President-Elect
Signature result	The firm advertises none. Its founder’s advertised credential is a U.S. Supreme Court case he argued — and lost. See Section IV.
Peer standing	Chambers High Net Worth: Band 1, Illinois Family/Matrimonial, with three ranked individuals. Verified at Chambers; the firm’s own claim matches exactly.
Fee model	Not published (per the firm’s site)
Disciplinary record	No discipline located. The ARDC’s primary database failed a control test and could not be queried — see Section VIII. This is not a clearance.

I. Half a Sewing-Machine Shop on Milwaukee Avenue

In 1958, the year he was admitted to the Illinois bar, Miles N. Beermann opened a law office at 1540 North Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park, in half of the storefront occupied by his partner’s father’s sewing-machine business. The partner was Nathan B. Swerdlove, a DePaul law classmate. Swerdlove’s mother, Bessie, sold needles and machine oil out of the other half. Two more classmates were in at the start and did not stay: Ralph Stavins, who later relocated to the Washington area, and Michael Gitlitz, who left within months. Beermann had grown up in Lakeview, gone to Senn High School, and worked as a vendor at Wrigley Field. The firm moved downtown to 30 North LaSalle Street in 1963 — as Beermann told it in a sixtieth-anniversary interview, shortly before President Kennedy was assassinated.

The 1958 date holds up from four directions: the firm’s own about page, Chambers’ record of the established year, Beermann’s bar admission, and a 2023 press release describing sixty-five years of practice. That consistency is worth noting in a metro where the more common finding is a firm giving three different founding years on its own website.

One wobble: the anniversary interview was published in September 2017 and called it the sixtieth anniversary, which implies 1957. Every other source says 1958. It is a trivial discrepancy and the only date problem we found.

The firm is now fifty-seven lawyers doing nothing but family law, which makes it the largest matrimonial practice we have counted in Chicago. Miles Beermann is still listed, correctly labeled Founder (Ret.) — not passed off as practicing. Nathan Swerdlove is identified on the about page as the late co-founder. Two of the three partners whose names came off the door in the rename, Enrico J. Mirabelli and James B. Pritikin, are still on the roster. The firm shed three names from a sixty-year-old partnership without a word of public explanation, which is its right, and a small transparency gap worth recording.

II. The Mechanism: Five Seats at the Academy

The claim any large family law firm makes is standing. Here it is checkable, because the body that confers it publishes a roster.

The Illinois chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers admits fellows by written examination, an examination and interview by the chapter’s board of examiners, and interviews with other matrimonial practitioners. It is the hardest peer credential in this practice area. On the chapter’s own published leadership list, five of the seats belong to Beermann attorneys:

• Shana L. Vitek — President Elect
• Jared B. Pinkus — Second Vice President
• James M. Quigley — National Delegate to the House of Governors
• Kathryn H. Mickelson — Board of Managers, term expiring October 2027
• Jordan D. Rosenberg — Board of Managers, term expiring October 2028

The chapter’s president is not a Beermann lawyer, so this is not capture of the office; it is a firm holding an unusual share of the working leadership of its own bar section, confirmed by that section rather than asserted by the firm.

The firm also passes a test most of this metro fails. Quigley was the chapter’s president for the 2021–22 term. His live bio says he “currently serves” as National Delegate and “has previously acted as President … for the 2021 to 2022 term.” Both halves check out against the Academy’s roster exactly. Several Chicago firms we have examined this month claim bar offices in the present tense that the organization’s own roster contradicts. This one gets the tenses right, and that is a real signal about how the place handles facts about itself — which makes the website problems in Section VIII stranger, not less notable.

The financial capability is real but should be described precisely. At least five attorneys — John M. D’Arco, Thomas T. Field, Benton H. Page, Jordan D. Rosenberg and Joseph R. Napoli II — hold the Certified Financial Litigator designation, which their bios describe as requiring additional testing in forensic accounting, business valuation, financial statement and tax return analysis, compensation and cash flow for support. That credential comes from a private membership academy, not from any bar or state body, and Illinois does not certify legal specialties at all. It is genuine training; it is not certification in the sense a client might assume. There are no employed in-house CPAs or forensic accountants on the roster — the capability sits in the lawyers, not in a separate valuation unit.

There is a real appellate practice, with its own page, its own Best Lawyers recognition and, more usefully, its own published record (Section IV). Michael D. Sevin teaches as an adjunct at DePaul and works Hague Convention international child abduction matters. Miles Beermann was editor-in-chief of the Illinois Journal of Family Law from 1984 to 1986; Howard A. London co-authored chapters in the Illinois Family Law practitioner series in the late 1980s; Thomas T. Field contributed to its 2015 edition.

III. Practice Areas

Divorce and dissolution. Allocation of parental responsibilities and parenting time. Financial issues, including business valuation, support and division of complex assets. Post-decree modification and enforcement. Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. Domestic violence and orders of protection. LGBTQ family matters. Sports and entertainment family law. Appeals.

Every live practice page is a family law page. The firm’s own 2023 statement describes over fifty attorneys practicing family law exclusively, and we verified the exclusivity independently. It was not always so: a surviving post from around 2015 refers to the firm’s business law partners. The non-family departments were shed sometime between then and the rename, and the firm does not say when or why.

IV. Track Record — and the Case the Founder Lost

Past results do not guarantee or predict the outcome of any future case.

The firm advertises no case results. Results, verdicts, settlements and case-results URLs all return 404. There are no dollar figures and no win rates anywhere on the site. As with the other large matrimonial firms in this city, that is both defensible on confidentiality grounds and a genuine reduction in disclosure risk — there is nothing to overstate.

With one exception, and it is a significant one.

Miles Beermann’s bio states that he “briefed and argued the constitutional law case of Trimble v. Gordon before the United States Supreme Court.” That is true, and we verified it in the official U.S. Reports. Trimble v. Gordon, 430 U.S. 762, No. 75-5952, argued December 7, 1976, decided April 26, 1977. The counsel block reads: “Miles N. Beermann argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief was Fred Klinsky.”

What the bio does not say is which side he was on, or that he lost. The appellees were defending section 12 of the Illinois Probate Act, the provision that allowed a child born outside marriage to inherit by intestate succession only from the mother. Justice Powell, writing for a five-justice majority joined by Brennan, White, Marshall and Stevens, held that the statute violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Burger, Stewart, Blackmun and Rehnquist dissented. Beermann argued for the statute, and the Supreme Court struck it down.

Arguing a losing side in the Supreme Court of the United States is not a mark against a lawyer — somebody argues every losing side, and getting there at all in 1976 was an achievement. But presenting a landmark defeat as a credential, with no mention of the side or the outcome, is the same disclosure failure this project keeps finding in this city, in an unusually clean form. The reader is meant to hear “argued before the Supreme Court.” The case is Trimble v. Gordon, and any first-year constitutional law student knows how it came out.

The modern appellate record, which the firm barely mentions, is better. Two 2024 decisions read in full from the Illinois Official Reports:

• In re Marriage of Hyman, 2024 IL App (2d) 230352 (filed December 24, 2024). Shana L. Vitek and Matthew D. Elster for the appellant. Disposition: vacated and remanded with directions — a win. Opposing counsel was Eric J. Schwab of Berger Schatz, one of the only two other firms in Chambers’ Illinois Band 1 and a firm also profiled on this site.
• In re Marriage of Tener, 2024 IL App (1st) 220890 (filed April 5, 2024). Matthew D. Elster for the appellee — and the appellee was Beth F. McCormack, an equity partner of the firm, appearing as court-appointed guardian ad litem. Disposition: appeal dismissed. A judge choosing a lawyer to represent a child’s interests is a marker of standing that no marketing program confers.

The firm’s name appears in the counsel block of at least six other Illinois opinions between 2019 and 2022. We did not verify their outcomes — the sources that hold the opinion text blocked automated access — and this profile therefore does not count them as wins or losses.

There is no prior-results disclaimer. The firm’s disclaimer page covers no-legal-advice, no attorney-client relationship, no confidential email, possibly-outdated content, and a note that the site may be advertising material under the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct. It contains no “prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome” language. With no advertised results, that omission has little to bite on — except as to Trimble.

V. Client Voice — and Four Testimonials in Latin

Start with what the firm publishes, because it is a problem. Beermann’s own site hosts four testimonial pages, all live, all returning HTTP 200, and all listed in the XML sitemap the firm submits for search indexing. All four are lorem ipsum placeholder text — “Quisque rutrum. Aenean imperdiet. Etiam ultricies nisi vel augue…” — wrapped in quotation marks and titled “Testimonial 1” through “Testimonial 4” under the firm’s branding. These are unused theme demo records nobody deleted. They deceive no one, because nobody reads Latin as a client quote. They are also the firm actively asking a search engine to index fake client testimonials, and that is worth saying out loud.

The third-party corpus is thin and, where visible, sharply barbelled. On Avvo, partner Thomas T. Field carries a 4.9 average across 46 client reviews — distributed as 45 five-star reviews, zero fours, threes or twos, and one one-star. Beth F. McCormack carries 4.7 across 12: eleven fives and one one. A 4.9 built that way tells you something different from a smooth 4.9. Nothing sits in the middle, which usually means a small number of clients had an experience nothing like the others’. Miles Beermann’s own profile carries one review, from 2010, rated 1.0.

Two verified client quotes, both from Avvo, both attributed by date:

“Beth McCormack is a very compassionate and wonderful lawyer who really listened and understood my needs.” — May 31, 2019

“Tom was recommended to me as someone who could navigate complicated financial waters, which was necessary in our case. However, Tom’s immediate focus was on our child, and I felt really great about that.” — September 6, 2022

Negative reviews exist and we are deliberately not quoting them. A single retrieval of a directory page that otherwise blocks automated access surfaced two billing complaints, one referencing being billed for a motion to withdraw. We could not reach the page a second time and the text came back truncated. The existence of one-star reviews is independently confirmed by the Avvo distributions above; the wording is not, and publishing a client’s words we cannot re-verify would be a worse error than leaving a gap. That gap is the honest state of the record.

The same directory reports 4.6 across 102 reviews at firm level. We flag it as unconfirmed for the same reason. Two pages on one peer-rating service disagree with each other — 4.9 across 38 peer reviews on one, 5.0 across 9 on another — so neither is reported here as settled. Yelp shows fifteen reviews and blocks access to the rating. No Google rating could be obtained.

VI. Beyond the Courtroom

The Beermann LLP Family Law Clinic at Chicago Volunteer Legal Services is real, and CVLS says so itself. The firm announced the partnership in June 2023: a clinic chaired by equity partner Shana L. Vitek, providing free representation in domestic relations proceedings, with law clerks who have completed half of law school able to work cases under supervision pursuant to Illinois Supreme Court Rule 711. CVLS’s own website independently confirms it, dates the partnership to 2023, describes the placement of cases with the firm’s attorneys and licensed law students, and as recently as April 2026 published an account of a client matter naming the law clerk, the associate and Vitek as supervising attorney.

The need it answers is documented in the firm’s own release, quoting a CVLS clinic coordinator: “Only about 1/5 of our active volunteers are willing to take on family law matters. We are forced to close our domestic relations intake on occasion because of limited resources.”

The limit: neither party publishes a case count, a client count or an hours figure. The program is confirmed to exist and to have been running for three years. Its scale is unquantified, and this profile does not guess at it.

Other involvement is firm-reported without recipient-side confirmation: repeat meal service at the Ronald McDonald House near Lurie Children’s Hospital, sponsorship of a North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic event, CVLS Race Judicata, the Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation, PAWS Chicago, the Jackson Chance Foundation, and judging the Illinois Fatherhood Initiative essay contest. Several of these date to the pre-2018 era.

VII. Credentials and Recognition

Verified at the conferring body, and the firm’s claim is accurate — if anything understated. Chambers High Net Worth ranks the firm Band 1 in Illinois Family/Matrimonial, one of only three firms in that band statewide, and ranks three of its lawyers individually: Howard London (Band 1), Beth McCormack (Band 2) and Morgan Stogsdill (Band 2). The firm’s own announcements name exactly those three. We found no overstatement anywhere in how it reports Chambers. Context worth carrying: Chambers annotates the firm “2 years ranked,” making it a recent entrant to that band rather than a fixture.

AAML fellowships and the five chapter leadership seats are verified on the Academy’s Illinois roster (Section II). Best Lawyers lists 31 Beermann lawyers across Family Law, Family Law Arbitration, Family Law Mediation, Appellate Practice and Collaborative Law — consistent with the firm’s own claims of 27 and 30 in recent editions.

Kept separate, because they are not the same kind of thing: Super Lawyers, Leading Lawyers, Lawdragon, Doyle’s Guide, Crain’s “Best Places to Work” and the Certified Financial Litigator designation are commercial or opt-in programs. Some have a peer-nomination component; their revenue comes from the people and firms they name. This profile does not treat them as peer review, and the firm cites them heavily.

Claims we could not find at the source: a partner’s bio states she is “the current President of the Illinois Chapter of the AFCC … for the 2025-2026 term.” We could locate no officer roster for that chapter at all, so the claim is unverified — and a 2025–2026 term stated as current in September 2026 is at or past its expiry regardless. Also unverified: the founder’s 2002 Samuel S. Berger Award, his 2014 Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” title, his claim to have been listed in every edition of Best Lawyers, a partner’s 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and a partner’s claimed co-authorship of the amendment to 735 ILCS 5/2-401(e). The statute itself is real — it permits parties to appear under fictitious names for good cause — but we found no legislative drafting record attaching his name to it.

VIII. What We Checked, and What We Could Not

No evidence of discipline was found in secondary sources. This is not a clearance. We were able to issue properly constructed requests to the ARDC’s lawyer search — anti-forgery token harvested, cookie held, referer set — and they returned HTTP 200 with a rendered results page. That page said the search could not be completed and returned no results. Our control query was the surname Mirabelli, an unquestionably active registered Illinois attorney at this firm. It returned nothing. A search channel that cannot find a lawyer we know is registered is not producing trustworthy negatives, and the underlying grid endpoint returned HTTP 500. No attorney at this firm has been verified against the primary register. Avvo’s mirror of state bar data reports “no misconduct found” for three attorneys out of fifty-seven. A targeted search for malpractice suits, sanctions and disciplinary news naming the firm or its lawyers returned nothing.

The firm contradicts itself about its own award streak, on two live pages, by four years. The homepage says a 2026 Best Lawyers Tier 1 ranking “marks the sixteenth year in a row.” The about page says the identical sentence about the identical award — “marks the twelfth year in a row.” We fetched both fresh on the research date. At least one is false, and a four-year gap is not a rounding artifact.

The firm undercounts itself by roughly thirty percent. Its homepage and about page say “over 40 attorneys.” Its own 2023 press release said “over 50.” The figure it supplied to Chambers is 57. Our hand count of its roster is 57. The live marketing number is lower than a three-year-old statement and materially understates the firm.

Orphaned demo content is live, indexed, and contradicts the firm’s central claim. The firm’s sitemaps publish practice-area pages titled Corporate Fraud, Auto Accidents, Labor Law, Medical Malpractice, Insurance Coverage, Real Estate, Business Litigation and Injury Litigation — all returning 200 under Beermann branding, all empty — plus nine fabricated “case studies” (Travel Accident, Environmental Hazards, Copyrights in Mobile App, and so on), none of which are family law and none of which are real. A firm whose entire positioning is family-law exclusivity is publishing indexed “Medical Malpractice” and “Auto Accidents” pages. There is also a stale roster page still serving six attorneys.

The founder’s bio is a time capsule. Its honors stop around 2014, and it uses present-perfect phrasing — “has been listed in every edition” — while he does not appear in the firm’s current Best Lawyers listing. He is correctly labeled retired, which mitigates it.

Unsubstantiated superlatives, recorded and not repeated: that the firm is “the largest family law firm in Illinois” (we could not test it — the nearest rival does not publish a comparable count); that it is “the nation’s premier family law firm”; that it has been “dominating” the practice since 1958, which appears in the site’s search meta description; that its attention is “unmatched”; and that it can handle “absolutely any” family law case.

Identity notes. Katz & Stefani, LLC is a different Chicago family law firm and is separately profiled on this site. A business directory still lists this firm under its old name with the spelling “Maribelli” for Mirabelli. Ralph F. Beermann, a Nebraska congressman, is unrelated. Because the founder’s surname is the firm name, loose text searches over case databases over-match badly; only opinions containing the exact counsel string were treated as this firm’s appearances. A separate note for the record: during research, one retrieval of this firm’s about page returned a complete page belonging to a competing Chicago matrimonial firm. Five subsequent retrievals returned the correct page. It appears to have been a transient caching fault at a shared web host, it was not reproducible, and it is recorded here as a research observation rather than a finding about the firm.

No dead links were found. Every firm URL tested returned 200 except deliberately probed nonexistent paths.

IX. The Illinois Legal Backdrop, in Plain English

General information, not legal advice. Statutes below were verified as described in Methodology; outcomes turn on facts a lawyer has to look at.

Illinois does not recognize legal specialists. Illinois Rule of Professional Conduct 7.4(b) states that “The Supreme Court of Illinois does not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law, nor does it recognize certifications of expertise in any phase of the practice of law by any agency, governmental or private, or by any group, organization or association.” Rule 7.4(c) bars a lawyer from stating or implying that they are “certified,” a “specialist” or an “expert” except to identify an actual certificate or award, and then only with a disclaimer that the Supreme Court of Illinois does not recognize specialty certification and that it is not required to practice law in Illinois. Registered patent attorneys are the only carve-out. There is no Illinois board certification in family law. This matters directly here: a private academy’s financial-litigator designation is real training and is not a specialty certification Illinois recognizes, and no lawyer is described as a specialist, certified or an expert anywhere in this profile.

There is one ground for divorce, and fault is not it. Under 750 ILCS 5/401, irreconcilable differences is the sole ground for dissolution; the fault grounds were abolished by Public Act 99-90, effective January 1, 2016. Six months of living separate and apart creates a presumption the requirement is met. One spouse must have lived in Illinois for ninety days before filing.

Illinois divides marital property equitably, not equally. Under 750 ILCS 5/503 the court divides marital property in “just proportions” on statutory factors. Illinois is not a community property state and there is no presumption of an even split. Non-marital property — gifts, inheritances, property owned before the marriage, property excluded by valid agreement — goes to the spouse who owns it. Which column an asset falls into is where most of the money is actually won or lost.

Maintenance runs on a formula up to a ceiling. Under 750 ILCS 5/504, where combined gross income is under $500,000 and the court finds maintenance appropriate, the guideline figure is 33⅓% of the payor’s net annual income minus 25% of the payee’s, capped so the payee’s total does not exceed 40% of combined net income, with duration set by a multiplier keyed to the length of the marriage. The current net-income formula arrived with Public Act 100-923, effective January 1, 2019, following the federal change that eliminated the maintenance deduction. Above the ceiling the guidelines do not apply and the court works from the statutory factors.

Child support is an income-shares calculation. Public Act 99-764, effective July 1, 2017, replaced the old percentage-of-the-payer’s-income model with one that begins from both parents’ incomes and the number of overnights.

“Custody” is not a term Illinois law uses. Since January 1, 2016, 750 ILCS 5/602.5 governs allocation of significant decision-making responsibilities and 5/602.7 governs parenting time. Anything still framed as custody and visitation is using vocabulary the statute retired a decade ago.

Moving with a child has a mileage rule. Under 750 ILCS 5/609.2, relocation means more than 25 miles if the child’s primary residence is in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry or Will County, more than 50 miles elsewhere in Illinois, and more than 25 miles across a state line. At least 60 days’ written notice is required to the other parent and the court.

Orders of protection. Under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986, 750 ILCS 60/, an emergency order issues without notice and runs 14 to 21 days; an interim order runs up to 30 days; a plenary order, after a full hearing, runs up to two years and may be renewed.

X. The Awesome Attorneys Assessment

The specific, verifiable thing about this firm is its position inside its own bar. Fifty-seven lawyers doing nothing but family law, five seats on the Illinois AAML chapter’s leadership including its President-Elect, a Chambers Band 1 department with three individually ranked lawyers matching the firm’s own claim exactly, published appellate wins including one against a Band 1 rival, a partner chosen by a judge as guardian ad litem, and a legal aid clinic a recipient organization confirms is still running three years on. That is the densest set of independently conferred credentials we have verified for any Chicago family law firm, and almost none of it comes from a program the firm paid to be in.

The honest limitation is that the firm’s public-facing record does not meet the standard its practice does. Two live pages give the same award streak as sixteen years and twelve years. The homepage undercounts the firm by thirty percent against the number the firm itself gave Chambers. Four lorem ipsum testimonials and eight fabricated practice-area pages sit indexed under the firm’s name, including “Medical Malpractice,” on a site whose central claim is that it does family law only. There is no prior-results disclaimer. And the founder’s headline credential is a United States Supreme Court case argued in defense of a statute the Court struck down as unconstitutional discrimination against children born outside marriage, presented with neither the side nor the result. None of that touches the quality of the representation. All of it means a client cannot take this firm’s description of itself at face value, and has to verify.

This firm is right for the client whose case needs institutional weight — a contested high-asset dissolution, a matter likely to be appealed, an international parental abduction question, or any case where being opposed by one of the two or three other firms in this tier is likely. It is a weaker fit for a straightforward, cost-sensitive uncontested matter, where fifty-seven lawyers and a Loop tower are overhead you will pay for and not use. And it is the wrong fit for a client who needs to know in advance exactly what a case will cost, since the firm publishes no fee information at all. Ask which partner runs your file and who actually appears, get the fee arrangement in writing, and check any credential that matters to you with the body that confers it rather than with the website.

Methodology & Sourcing

Research conducted September 16, 2026. Entity name, both addresses, practice pages, disclaimer, sitemaps and the full attorney roster were read as raw HTML from the firm’s own site rather than through a summarizer, and the 57-attorney count was made by hand from that roster; the “over 40” and “over 50” figures and the sixteenth-versus-twelfth-year contradiction were each confirmed on fresh retrievals of the live pages. The 1958 founding is corroborated by the firm’s about page, Chambers’ established-year field, the founder’s Illinois bar admission year, and the firm’s own sixty-fifth-anniversary release. The Milwaukee Avenue origin details, the 1963 move and the founder’s pre-law background come from a single firm-published 2017 anniversary interview and are attributed as the firm’s account; the celebrity client names in that same interview are the firm’s claim, are not independently verifiable, and are not repeated here. Trimble v. Gordon, 430 U.S. 762 (1977), was read in the official U.S. Reports, including the counsel block naming Beermann for appellees and the 5–4 holding that the Illinois statute violated the Equal Protection Clause. In re Marriage of Hyman (2024) and In re Marriage of Tener (2024) were read from the Illinois Official Reports for counsel and disposition; six other opinions naming the firm were located but their outcomes could not be retrieved and are not characterized. Chambers band and individual rankings were read at chambers.com. The five AAML Illinois leadership seats and the correctness of the past/present tense in one partner’s bio were verified against the chapter’s own published roster. The CVLS clinic was confirmed on CVLS’s own website, including an April 2026 account of a current matter. Review distributions come from Avvo directly; one firm-level rating and two negative review texts are reported as unconfirmed and are not quoted, and no claim is made about what the fifteen inaccessible Yelp reviews say. Discipline was not verified: authenticated requests to the ARDC returned a failure page, a control query for a known active attorney at this firm returned nothing, and the results endpoint returned HTTP 500, so no attorney here has been checked against the primary register. Statutes were verified against the Illinois Courts’ own published text for Rule of Professional Conduct 7.4, and, for the family law provisions, against current compilations carrying the governing Public Act notes — the Illinois General Assembly’s own site was unreachable on the research date for a fifth consecutive day, with a TLS certificate-verification failure, so 750 ILCS 5/401, 5/503, 5/504, 5/505, 5/602.5, 5/602.7, 5/609.2 and 750 ILCS 60/ rest on secondary repositories rather than primary text. Claims we could not verify are marked as unverified rather than softened or omitted.

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