Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years
Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years
Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years
Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years

Our Real Estate Attorneys speak the language of investment banking, securitized financing, preferred equity, and mezzanine debt. Whether you are acquiring, selling, developing, or rehabilitating, consider allowing us to become a part of your team. Learn More
Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years

Our Estate Planning Attorneys handle all aspects of estate planning including client specific and tax effective wealth planning, protection, structured passage of assets, probate and estate plan defense. We welcome the opportunity to discuss your planning needs. Learn More
Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years

Our Business Attorneys are extensions of our clients’ management team who are often called upon to provide general counsel in our clients’ business operations. We guide our clients through all phases in the life of a business, including formation of the business entity, hiring and firing employees, contract negotiations, borrowing, acquisitions, and sales of businesses. Learn More
Creating Relationships and Solutions for 25 years

Our Litigation Attorneys bring a wealth of experience to addressing clients’ litigation and dispute resolution needs. Should you find yourself in litigation, having to file suit, or simply in need of help in resolving a personal or business problem or dispute, we are ready to use our many years of broad-based experience in such matters to assist you and find the best way forward. Learn More

Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years

Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years
Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years
Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years
Real Estate Law

Our attorneys speak the language of investment banking, securitized financing, preferred equity and mezzanine debt. Whether you are acquiring, selling, developing or rehabilitating, consider allowing us to become a part of your team. Learn More
Estate, Financial and Business Planning

Our Estate Planning Attorneys handle all aspects of estate planning including client specific and tax effective wealth planning, protection, structured passage of assets, probate and estate plan defense. We welcome the opportunity to discuss your planning needs. Learn More
Business/Corporate Law

Strauss Malk & Feder llp’s Business Attorneys have a strong reputation for providing balanced advice to private companies in a variety of industries. Our business attorneys are extensions of our clients’ management team who are often called upon to provide general counsel in our clients’ business operations. We guide our clients through all phases in the life of a business, including formation of the business entity, hiring and firing employees, contract negotiations, borrowing, acquisitions, and sales of businesses. Let us show you how our collaborative style can help your business succeed. Learn More
Litigation

Strauss Malk & Feder llp’s Litigation Attorneys bring a wealth of experience to addressing clients’ litigation and dispute resolution needs. Whether it is a complex business dispute, a complicated and contested estate or trust matter, or other kind of disagreement or fight, we approach your problems with the aim of achieving the best result for you in the most cost-efficient manner that also is mindful of the time, distraction, and emotional toll these matters can have on you and your business. Sometimes, that may require court action, while other times we may be able to use negotiation or other dispute resolution forums and avenues for your benefit. Should you find yourself in litigation, having to file suit, or simply in need of help in resolving a personal or business problem or dispute, we are ready to use our many years of broad-based experience in such matters to assist you and find the best way forward. Learn More

Experienced. Efficient. Evolving.

Strauss Malk & Feder LLP was established in 1994 with a commitment to our clients to provide top quality legal services. We are now fifteen attorneys and eight legal assistants and we provide legal services to our clients in a variety of areas. See our Practice Areas page for a description of our services. We are an efficiently structured firm of experienced attorneys, with state of the art computer technology and electronic library services. We take pride in delivering prompt and cost-effective services to our clients.

Attorney Spotlight

Matthew S. Phillips

Matt concentrates his practice in the areas of estate and gift tax planning; probate, trust and estate administration; estate and gift tax compliance; tax law; and charitable planning. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, Illinois State Bar…

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Joyce A. Levy

Joyce concentrates her practice in estate planning, probate, individual and partnership taxation, corporations and not-for-profit organizations. She is a graduate of Yale University and Vanderbilt University School of Law, where she was an editor of…

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Benton C. Strauss

Ben concentrates his practice in: estate and trust planning, including asset protection, tax reduction, estate administration and estate and trust controversies; business transactions, including partnership, LLC and corporate matters, business transf…

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Julia A. Steinway

Julia concentrates her practice on designing and implementing estate plans and leveraged wealth transfer techniques for individuals and family groups. She counsels clients on all aspects of estate and business succession planning. Julia’s dedicated…

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Sarah M. Freund

Sarah concentrates her practice in the area of Litigation and Real Estate. Education Northern Illinois University College of Law, J.D. ( 2021), magna cum laude Illinois State University, B.S. (2014) Licensed to Practice Illinois

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Kenneth H. Brown

Ken concentrates his practice in commercial real estate, probate and estate planning, litigation, and business planning matters. He takes pride in the long relationships he has established with his clients, some of which have spanned 40 years. With h…

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Cassandra L. Hardeman

Cassandra practices in the area of Estate Planning. Education Cumberland School of Law, J.D. ( 2019) Auburn University, B.A. (2014) Licensed to Practice Illinois Indiana

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Benjamin N. Feder

Ben concentrates his practice in the areas of sophisticated estate and gift tax planning, asset protection planning, guardianship matters, charitable planning, and estate and trust administration. Ben also devotes a significant portion of his practic…

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Brad S. Grayson

Brad concentrates his practice in the area of litigation and has experience in such matters as: breach of contract claims; business tort claims; trust and estate controversies; fraud and misrepresentation suits; shareholder remedy actions; partnershi…

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Michael S. Strauss

Mike concentrates his practice in estate and trust planning, including estate tax reduction; asset protection; wealth succession; probate and estate administration; business transactions and real estate; and technology licensing and contracting. Mike…

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Arnold B. Malk

Arnie concentrates his practice in business and transactional matters, providing tax consulting, negotiating, structuring and documenting services for: corporations and their owners; persons engaged in sophisticated real estate transactions; health c…

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Mark T. Chavin

Mark concentrates his practice in the areas of estate and gift tax planning, asset protection planning, probate practice, federal taxation, and real estate/business transactions. He is a member of the Lake County Bar Association and the Illinois Stat…

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Jay Glaubinger

Jay concentrates his practice in business and real estate transactions and their financing, tax law, employee benefits and commercial agreements. Jay assists clients in corporate, partnership and limited liability company matters, including negotiati…

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Strauss Malk & Feder's Litigation Group Prevails on behalf of Clients in Property Redevelopment Litigation

Strauss Malk & Feder’s Litigation Group succeeded in defeating an attempt by commercial vendors to prevent their eviction from a mall in a highly publicized politically charged property redevelopment dispute. The plaintiffs argued that they wer… Read More

Strauss Malk & Feder Team Successfully Completes a Complex Real Estate Closing Before Year-End and Helps Client Achieve a Significant Tax Savings

Congratulations to Strauss Malk & Feder’s real estate team for the successful structuring of a Like-Kind exchange real estate transaction. This exchange enabled our client to defer the payment of a considerable long-term gain on the proceeds of… Read More

Multi-Family Apartment Real Estate Closing – Strategic Win for our Client!

Strauss Malk & Feder is proud to congratulate Jay Glaubinger, Mark Chavin, Arnie Malk, Benjamin Feder and their team for successfully assisting our client on the sale of a 396-unit multi-family apartment complex. This complex transaction included… Read More

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Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years

Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years

Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years

Creating Relationships and Solutions for Over 25 Years

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