Overview
Ira advises his clients in preserving wealth, business transactions and succession planning. Since 1983, entrepreneurs and families have chosen to work with Ira for his ability to design and implement comprehensive, integrated and practical strategies toward achieving their objectives, and his skill in explaining often complex subject matter in a clear, understandable manner.
Ira’s practice is focused on counseling closely held business owners, families and individuals. His clients look to him for comprehensive advice, with an emphasis on sophisticated estate and wealth transfer planning, the preparation and administration of wills and trusts, estate and gift, generation-skipping transfer and income tax planning, life insurance strategies, charitable gifts and foundations, and matters involving trusts and estates controversy.
Education
- J.D., DePaul University College of Law
- B.B.A., Loyola University Chicago
- CPA, Illinois
Admissions
- State Bar of Illinois
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Tax Court
Publications, Recognitions and Speaking Engagements
Selected by peers as a Leading Lawyer in: Tax Law: Individual; Trust, Will & Estate Planning Law (2017)
Selected for inclusion in Illinois Super Lawyers, Illinois Super Lawyers
Estate Planning and Probate (2008, 2009)