John Pembroke

The Firm is comprised of attorneys with a strong business and tax background who use their experience to represent clients in business transactions, taxation, estate planning and litigation. Legal services include estate planning and trust formation, business planning, corporate/ share-holder matters, contracts, federal and state income taxation, audits and other tax controver-sies, real estate, complex financial liti-gation, and litigation support. The Firm's attorneys use their business background to offer the individual and business client "downtown" quality service at hourly rates competitive with other suburban at-torneys. The firm��s attorneys are complimented by an experienced staff of paralegals, tax preparers and secretaries. AREAS OF PRACTICE �h Estate and trust planning �h Financial Planning �h Will and trust preparation �h Probate �h Real estate law, including closings �h 1031 Exchange-Qualified Intermediary �h Income tax return preparation �h Tax planning and advice �h General business law �h Contracts, including employment �h Business planning and incorporation �h Commercial and business litigation �h Commercial collection litigation �h Leases and landlord/tenant �h Litigation support For areas outside our expertise, we work with or refer matters among a network of attorneys known to the firm for their legal skills and expe-rience. If an initial consultation results in such a referral, of course our initial consultation would be at no charge. JOHN J. PEMBROKE John Pembroke has over twenty-four years of experience as a business and tax lawyer, and twenty-seven years of experience preparing federal and state income, estate and gift tax returns and planning for income, estate and gift tax. John represents individual and corporate clients on such matters as business organizations, residen-tial and commercial real estate closings, leases, acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholder disputes, minority buy-outs, contracts and other general business matters. A licensed Certified Public Accountant, John has also acted as interim CFO for start-ups and as appropriate for client matters. His experience also provides John with the per-spective to advise on financial planning and re-lated matters, either independently or as part of a client��s financial planning team. John also has a broad background in estate plan-ning and probate. John works with clients draft-ing estate planning documents, advising clients on estate planning, advising clients with difficult estate planning issues such as business succes-sion, generation skipping, and structuring closely held businesses to minimize estate tax. John graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Ac-counting from the University of Illinois at Chicago with honors and received his law degree from Northwestern University. John is actively involved in the Rotary Club of Park Ridge and is married with two children.