About 41 results for Hale & Mercer
Leads the firm, still tries cases, and will tell you exactly where you stand. Elena grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, the daughter of a harbour pilot and a high-school chemistry teacher. Dinner-table arguments were a sport i…
I run a forty-lawyer firm in Chicago and I still try cases, because I think the person who sets a firm's standards should have to meet them. We take on commercial disputes, deals, property, family mat…
Trial lawyer, former public defender, and the calmest person in any courtroom. Daniel was born in Houston to Nigerian parents who ran a small pharmacy on Bissonnet Street. He worked the register from the age of eleven an…
I lead the litigation group at Hale & Mercer. Before that I spent six years at the Cook County Public Defender's office and tried more than sixty cases to verdict, which is the best training a trial l…
Closes deals for founders and family businesses, and reads every schedule herself. Priya grew up in Edison, New Jersey, where her parents ran a software consultancy out of the spare bedroom before it grew into a company …
I lead the corporate practice at Hale & Mercer. My work is the formation, financing and sale of privately held companies, usually with the owner in the room. I read every schedule myself, because the …
Has closed more than a thousand property transactions and still walks every site. Thomas was raised on a dairy farm outside Stillwater, Minnesota, the youngest of five. His family lost sixty acres in a boundary dispute w…
I lead the real estate practice at Hale & Mercer: commercial and residential transactions, leasing, development, and the title problems nobody saw coming. I have closed more than a thousand property t…
Helps families through their hardest year with steadiness and an eye for what matters. Marisol grew up in Pilsen, the eldest of four, in a household that doubled as an informal advice centre for the neighbourhood. Her mo…
I lead the family law practice at Hale & Mercer: divorce, custody, support and guardianship, handled with steadiness and respect. Nobody comes to me on a good day. I try to make sure they leave on a b…
Former software engineer who protects the ideas of people who build things. Sam grew up in Galway, Ireland, and spent his teenage years taking apart radios in his grandfather's repair shop on Shop Street. He studied comp…
I lead the IP practice at Hale & Mercer: patents, trademarks, trade secrets and software licensing for people who build things. I was a software engineer for seven years before law school, and I have …
Builds the case file nobody else wants to build, and finds what's in it. Aisha was born in Dearborn, Michigan, to Lebanese parents who owned a bakery on Warren Avenue. She spent her childhood doing homework at a corner t…
I am a litigator at Hale & Mercer. I build the case file nobody else wants to build, and I find what is in it. In 2023 that meant reading 40,000 pages of discovery the other side had dismissed as irre…
Start-up lawyer who speaks fluent term sheet and plain English. Caleb grew up in Sacramento, the son of a Japanese-American father who ran an almond orchard and a mother who taught middle-school maths. He spent summers d…
I am a corporate associate at Hale & Mercer working with founders: formation, seed and Series A financings, option plans, and the contracts that come before any of that. If I cannot explain a clause i…
Closings, estates, and the unglamorous paperwork that keeps families whole. Grace is a third-generation South Sider from Beverly, where her grandfather was a Chicago police sergeant and her mother a court reporter. She g…
I am an associate at Hale & Mercer working across real estate and family law: closings, estates, guardianships and the unglamorous paperwork that keeps families whole. The paperwork is boring right up…
Keeps the firm running on time, on budget, and without drama. Rob grew up in Bridgeport, the son of a union electrician and a school secretary, and spent his twenties as a logistics officer in the U.S. Army, including tw…
I keep Hale & Mercer running on time, on budget, and without drama. A promise to a client is a logistics problem: I make sure we can keep it. That means the people, the space, the systems and the clie…
Makes sure every invoice is fair, every number is right, and every client knows where their money went. Hannah grew up in Skokie, the daughter of a tax accountant who did the returns of half the neighbourhood from the ki…
I am the CFO at Hale & Mercer. My job is to make sure every invoice is fair, every number is right, and every client knows where their money went. You should never have to guess what you are paying fo…
The firm's own lawyer: ethics, conflicts, and making sure we deserve your trust. Victor was born in Lagos and came to the United States at nine when his mother took a nursing post at a hospital in Minneapolis. He learned…
I am the firm's own lawyer. Ethics, conflicts of interest, professional responsibility and risk: the work that makes sure Hale & Mercer deserves the trust its clients place in it. Trust is the only pr…
A forty-lawyer Chicago firm for businesses, families, and the people who build things. Litigation, corporate, real estate, family law, IP.
Every lawyer and leader at the firm, with their story.
The West Loop firm's eleven-lawyer trial practice will be led by a partner who tried more than sixty cases before joining private practice. Hale & Mercer LLP has formally named partner Daniel Okafor as head of its litiga…
Forty-one years ago today Margaret Hale and David Mercer left a big firm with one rule: a client should always be able to reach the person handling their matter. We are bigger now. The rule has not changed, and the day i…
Managing Partner @ Hale & Mercer. Trial lawyer. Duluth-born, Evanston-based. Lake Michigan swimmer, April to November. Opinions are mine and usually firm.
Head of Litigation @ Hale & Mercer. Ex-public defender. Coach, Jackson Park Rovers U12. Caro-Kann, post oak, patience.
Corporate partner @ Hale & Mercer. Engineer first. 9 marathons. Carnatic violin, badly. Delta the greyhound's human.
Real estate partner @ Hale & Mercer. Dairy-farm kid. Driftless trout, 1908 sashes, Birkie x20. Oak Park.
Family lawyer @ Hale & Mercer. Pilsen-raised, Bridgeport-based. Salsa Fridays at Alhambra. Tomatillos on Halsted. Twins' mom.
IP partner @ Hale & Mercer. Ex-engineer. Galway → Chicago. J/24 'Tuesday', Belmont Harbor. 20m most evenings. Button accordion, Sundays.
Litigator @ Hale & Mercer. Climber. Baker of ka'ak. Crossword constructor (2x Tribune). Dearborn → Andersonville. Zayn's cat-mom.
Start-up lawyer @ Hale & Mercer. Orchard kid. PCT in sections (400 mi down). Pentax K1000. Point guard, Wicker Park Tuesday league.
Associate @ Hale & Mercer. Beverly, born and based. Irish dance teacher (beginners, be kind). 1950s patterns, grandma's Singer. Beer-league D, two stitches.
COO @ Hale & Mercer. Army logistics, two tours. Bridgeport lifer. 1972 C10 (running, mostly). Shaker furniture. Team Rubicon. Sarge's human.
CFO @ Hale & Mercer. Skokie. Birder (life list 412). 2,000-piece puzzles, Ravensburger only. Six challahs every Friday. Treasurer, twice.
General Counsel @ Hale & Mercer. Lagos → Minneapolis → Oak Park. Steel-frame touring bike. Jazz piano, standards only. Three hives, 90 lbs of honey. Deacon.