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WFKelley@kelleykelleykelley.com

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Business Formation
Business Law
Civil and Commercial Litigation
Estate Planning
Personal Injury
Tax Law
Workers’ Compensation

BACKGROUND

Schaumburg and Hoffman Estates Attorney William F. Kelley (“Bill”), Managing Partner of Kelley, Kelley & Kelley, is recognized by his peers in the legal community to have achieved the highest level of professional excellence. He is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers™. Bill was named to the annual list of Top Attorneys in Illinois for his business and corporate work by Super Lawyers. He has been repeatedly honored with the designation of a Top Lawyer in the Global Directory of Who’s Who. He has received the coveted “AV” rating from Martindale Hubbell, the highest rating allowed, a testament to his preeminence in the legal field. Bill concentrates his practice in transactional law, commercial,, business and corporate areas, estate and succession planning, asset protection, and civil and commercial litigation.

Bill has a wide range of experience representing corporate clients through employment matters, lease agreements, non-competition agreements, NDA’s, shareholder agreements, and shepherding businesses in their mergers, acquisitions and sales, and when necessary, in litigation. Bill’s experience, advice, and counsel in business law are shown throughout the community through his clients’ successful business ventures. His counsel has been instrumental in facilitating the acquisition, sale, and transfer of multi-million dollar business ventures while minimizing the tax ramifications thereof.

Bill has also established a large estate planning practice representing clients in both complex and simple estate planning throughout Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates, Barrington and the Chicagoland area. Bill routinely works with clients with multi-million dollar portfolios to draft comprehensive estate planning. Bill has wide ranging experience drafting revocable trusts, credit shelter trusts, Qualified Terminable Interest Property trusts (“QTIP”), Generation-Skipping Trusts (“GST”), special needs trusts, and also works closely with clients who may need to decant their trust instruments.

Bill has also had a successful civil litigation practice representing clients in medical malpractice, product liability, personal injury, discrimination, fraud, and business actions. Bill obtained a $2.2 million dollar settlement in a wrongful death action and has routinely negotiated recoveries exceeding $500,000. William Kelley’s numerous professional and civic memberships reflect his energy and vision.

Bill’s work in the legal and civic communities as an attorney allows Bill to give comprehensive advice to his clients based on legal expertise and a thorough understanding of the communities in which his clients reside.