Experience

• Personal Jurisdiction in Estate Litigation
  Schiff Hardin won a bench trial in DuPage County, Illinois involving a decedent who died shortly before signing change of beneficiary forms for multiple IRAs.
  


• Out-of-State Jurisdiction
  Schiff Hardin attorneys represented a trustee and several members of trust 'advisory committees' in connection with two lawsuits filed by a beneficiary who sought to 'bust' two trusts created for her benefit.
  


• Facility of Payments and Trust Termination
  Schiff Hardin represented a corporate fiduciary in the Circuit Court of Cook County in connection with a financially fragile beneficiary of a trust whose termination date had arrived.
  


• Successful Defense of Corporate Trustee
  Schiff Hardin successfully defended a fiduciary liability claim against a large corporate trustee in a nine-day bench trial in DuPage County, Illinois.
  


• Charitable Organization
  Schiff Hardin's Tax-Exempt Organizations team assisted a client in obtaining IRS recognition of its tax-exempt status.
  


• Illinois Appellate Court Victory in Trust Case of First Impression
  The Illinois Appellate Court ruled in our clients' favor on a question of first impression concerning the application of a Trusts and Trustees Act provision.