Illinois Lawyers

Civil Litigation

20 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60602, USA

Aviation Litigation

Health Care Law

368 W Huron St #100, Chicago, IL 60654, USA

Elias Matsakis' practice transcends multiple legal disciplines where he has led teams of attorneys in complex transactions and served as the trusted advisor to numerous businesses, entrepreneurs, and high net worth individuals. In his new practice, he will leverage that experience to provide counseling and guidance. For more substantial matters, he will co-counsel with his former colleagues to build the appropriate team with the requisite capacity to meet client needs. For many years, he served as the practice group leader for Holland & Knight's Illinois Business Attorneys and as the head of its Illinois Healthcare and Life Sciences Team. In those capacities, and as the lead attorney, he collaborated frequently with his law firm’s corporate, real estate and finance attorneys in signature real estate and corporate merger and acquisition projects both locally and across the nation. For the past 30 years, his practice has also focused on the representation of physician organizations, physician management companies and health systems in a wide range of matters including integration and alignment transactions, managed care contracting, technology deployment, joint ventures, Accountable Care Organizations, healthcare networks, and regulatory compliance matters. He is also experienced in the representation of skilled nursing and senior living development mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Mr. Matsakis assists large nonprofit organizations in corporate governance and conflict policies. In the role of counselor for large privately-held businesses he has served as their principal legal strategist in both their growth and litigation needs. In that capacity he has had substantial experience in dispute resolution and has successfully negotiated numerous significant settlements of complex “bet the company” commercial litigation matters across multiple industries and in complex estate disputes. Mr. Matsakis devotes a significant amount of his time to pro bono matters on behalf of local charitable and religious organizations. Mr. Matsakis' leadership skills have been recognized both by his former firm where he had served for many years as a member of its Directors Committee and the Executive partner of its 150 lawyer Chicago Office and by the community where he served on the District 225 Board of Education for six years, a school district of approximately 4500 students.

Personal Injury Law

180 N. Stetson Avenue, 5701, Chicago, IL 6061

Tax Law

3318 W 95th St, Evergreen Park, IL 60805, USA

Elizabeth Ann Shine is an experienced municipal attorney who received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Western Illinois University and her Juris Doctorate from Northern Illinois University College of Law. She is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She is a member of the Home Rule Attorney’s Committee of the Illinois Municipal League, the Illinois Local Government Lawyers Association, and the Illinois State Bar Association. Liz served in the Municipal Prosecutions Division with the City of Chicago’s Department of Law, and with the office of a commissioner of the Cook County Board of Review. Her responsibilities with the Board of Review included representing the Board at appeal hearings and settlement conferences, as well as before the State Property Tax Appeal Board. Liz devotes her practice to municipal, township, and property tax law. She counsels our municipal clients on a variety of matters such as property tax issues, land use and zoning, economic development, intergovernmental agreements, annexation and contracts as well as the drafting of resolutions, ordinances, agreements and policies. She also maintains an active practice before the Assessor’s Office, Board of Review and Property Tax Appeal Board. Liz is also a certified hearing officer. In 2016, Liz was named by the Law Bulletin as one of the Forty Illinois Attorneys under 40 to Watch. A very distinguished honor, Liz was chosen as one of the 40 up and coming attorneys out of over 1,300 nominees.

Family and Divorce Law

218 W. Madison St., Ottawa, IL 61350

Eric L. Miskell founded The Miskell Law Center, LLC in 1997. Mr. Miskell has been licensed to practice law since 1993. Eric is a graduate of Creighton University School of Law and has been licensed in the States of Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. He has also been licensed to practice in the United States Federal Court in the Northern District of Iowa. Eric has four children: Erin Miskell ,who attends Augustana College, is studying to be a Doctor of Occupational Therapy, Hannah Miskell, who attends Western Illinois University, is a Criminal Justice Major looking to become an Airforce Special Forces officer, Nathan and Lindsay who attend Marquette Academy. His lovely wife, Jessica Miskell, APN is the operator of Miskell Medical, LLC also located at the Miskell Professional Center. Since it's inception, the Miskell Law Center, LLC has been recognized as the premiere source for legal services. In 2018, Eric Miskell was given an award as one of the TOP 10 family lawyers in Illinois. Expanding on that success, in 2019, the Miskell Law Center, LLC was voted as the best Family Law firm in North Centeral Illinois. Mr. Miskell resides in the countryside of his hometown of Ottawa, Illinois. He prides himself as a committed and active member of the community. The Miskell Law Center, LLC handles cases in the area of Criminal, Family / Domestic, Estate Planning, Real-Estate and General Litigation Law. Eric is/has been a member of: the North Ottawa Business Advisory Committee for the City of Ottawa, City of Ottawa Parks and Recreation Board, Ottawa Girls Fastpitch Association, Deer-park Country Club, Knights of Columbus, Marquette Go Club, Ottawa Lions Club, Starved Rock Yacht Club, Wide Waters Yacht Club and the Charter Member of the Ottawa Port Authority.