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October 2010
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Rieck and Crotty, P.C. - Chicago's Business Lawyers

Rieck and Crotty, P.C. is a business law boutique founded in 1980. The firm has adopted a philosophy of remaining a small firm to maintain the quality of the firm's professional services and to ensure that those services are rendered to our clients on a timely and personal basis.


The firm offers a wide range of legal services, with its primary emphasis on corporate, securities and tax law matters, trusts and estate planning and administration, contract law, banking, real estate law and litigation arising in all such areas.


General corporate representation, including corporate planning and control, employment relationships, ERISA matters and intellectual property rights, is a major part of the firm's business. The corporate practice also includes such complex matters as the purchase, sale and merger of businesses, documentation of private placements of securities, loans and other financial transactions, ESOPs and shareholder and partnership agreements. The firm is regularly retained in litigation relating to securities law, employment discrimination, real estate, decedents' estates, and trusts, as well as contract, partnership, and shareholder disputes.


The members are dedicated to excellence in quality of the firm's work product and timeliness of service to its clients. They take pride in the firm's reputation in the business and legal communities and in the fine working relationships the firm enjoys with its clients, and are proud to be known as Chicago's Business Lawyers.


Learn more:

312-726-4646

http://www.rieckcrotty.com/
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