Two words: hire her. Robin recently helped us during the sale of our condo (and first home), and I…read morecannot recommend her highly enough! She was so easy to work with - highly responsive, knowledgeable, and very patient with my many, many questions. She felt very much like our advocate throughout the process, while providing fair representation and working well with the buyers' attorney as well. Ours was a quick and pressured process, and she was one of the positive factors throughout - making this process as easy as it could be and relieving a great deal of stress along the way. I would work with her again in a heartbeat if we were staying in Illinois!

Knowledgeable, reliable, professional, patient, accurate and skilled. Not all real estate…read moreattorneys are the same. Robin is by FAR the best we've worked with in our five real estate transactions. We had such a standout experience with her in 2017 that we hired her again for our most recent purchase. She will guide you through the entire process in a calm and thorough manner. She and her team are incredibly organized and we have had the utmost confidence that our closings will go smoothly without any worry.

2022 update: Sam Nedeau is great! He expertly handled our sale of our 100-year old home in Evanston…read moredespite us moving out of state. Sam gave us great advice and helped us navigate some tricky back-and-forth with the potential buyers. He deftly handled our closing and we were satisfied with the outcome. Original 2021 review: Sam extricated us out of a difficult situation with our landlord and her unfriendly condo board. The landlord then later tried to pin a bunch of wear and tear on us for excessive penalties. Sam helped us negotiate settlement. He later handled our real estate closing too. Working with Sam was pleasant and reasonable.

Mr Nedeau helped me with an issue I had at my previous landlord. Mr Nedeau promptly replies to…read moreemails and texts and phone calls. He is very knowledge in terms of law.

I recently used Mike as my lawyer to help me sell a condo and then purchase another condo. He is…read morefantastic! Very detail oriented and communicative. Before I signed anything also went over and reviewed everything so that I felt comfortable. Reasonable prices, friendly and knowledgeable!

Priti provides the benefit of a big-firm background with the attention to detail you would expect…read moreonly at a small firm. Priti makes the time to explain the intricacies of the ever-changing real estate implications. I have worked with Priti on behalf of a wide variety of my clients, and she provides significant value and saved my clients at all levels of the real estate process. Cannot recommend her highly enough!

I had a great experience with Nemani Law. Ms. Nemani was very knowledgeable in estate planning and…read morenavigating probate. She helped me organize and close my father's estate after his passing. She simplified the process and helped my family to understand what was required of us. I would definitely recommend her and will use her again.

I hired this lawyer and it was the biggest mistake of my life. He didn't do anything for me except…read moretake my money. He would show up to court unprepared and always late and at first told me he would go to trial for me if we didn't get the deal we wanted he promised me the world but in the end refused to go to trial and made me take a plea that I did not agree with he scared me saying if I don't take the plea I will go to prison and it was just for DUI. I agreed to plea that ruined my whole life and I have felony now because of this lawyer. I didn't know any better , I thought you're suppose to listen to your lawyer and I was really scared. I didn't hurt anyone I didn't get into an accident he just made me believe I had no other choice. He was just too lazy to go to trial. Please do your homework before hiring a lawyer. James Schwarback is a horrible lawyer and person.

I have utilized Mr. Haffner on six separate occasions, all real estate transactions. He his…read morefantastic. I have used him to represent me as both a buyer and a seller. On the transaction in which I was the seller, the buyer's attempted to squeeze an extra $3,000 out of me for inspection issues. Because I just didn't want to be bothered, I was willing to give it. Mr. Haffner took control of negotiations and refused the request and he ended up saving me $3,000. On another deal, in which I was the buyer, sellers tried to cancel the contract outside attorney approval, due to the sller's receiving other offers for a higher sales price than the one agreed upon. Shame, shame. Someone needs to gain a better understanding of contract law. You can't just kick out a contractually bound party because a better offer came your way. In any event, seller's attorney tried his best, and it wasn't good enough. I had real estate law on my side and I wholly planned to litigate those seller's, their agent, their agent's brokerage, and seller's attorney. He had the audacity to call my agent and offer to refund my inspection fee and literally said to my agent, "just sell the deal to her." As if my agent would give me shitty advice on his behalf. Instead of a "pacified" party to a failed contract, all his phone call to my agent did was release the kracken! The fact is, the property in question, has already provided real equity and I haven't even closed on it. I know this by the seller's very real attempts to cancel this contract. And, as a cherry on top, while these bozos were messing about, mortgage rates dropped and I am getting an even sweeter deal! However, I would not be reaping the benefits I am without Mr. Haffner's expertise and rapid fire responsiveness. So, if you are looking for a good real estate attorney that will get you to the closing table (or not, depending upon your needs), this is your man.

Great and pleasant experience, that I had. Aleksander is a very professional and helpful attorney…read more His team is very good too. They all are very responsible and definitely worth of dealing with!

They did an awesome job getting me a good value! However they didn't really keep me up to date, but…read morethat's also a good thing that they didn't bother me much! To each their own.

Unfortunately over 6 years later and I have ongoing disputes with this lawyer. As for his response…read moreon yelp on 11/4/17 he is questioning my honesty and his explanation is totally false on everything. He is completely lying by stating that we actually were awarded anything in the court of appeals. The real truth is because of his negligence by not using an expert's testimony at the trial to determine my damages we were awarded nothing. The trial court disregarded the damages claimed in our case because it was me who prepared the damages and they deemed it unreliable because I am not an accountant. The court of appeals agreed that we are entitled to collect damages and sent it back to the trial court to recalculate the damages. The trial judge awarded us $45,000. This was again appealed. And the bottom line is we were awarded absolutely nothing because of Mr. Appel's massive blunder in the first place to not include an expert testimony to solidify our damages. Everything boiled down to we were damaged and entitled to fees for our damages but no one could verify how much our damages were. And if you re-read how much Mr. Appel charged us in the first place, he had absolutely no excuse to not use an expert witness. He is also being dishonest about his claim this he was awarded a summary judgement. He was awarded a partial summary judgement which is not final and therefore not appealable pending our counterclaim disputing his fee and malpractice. Finally in order to judge Mr. Appel's billing practice and moral compass, on April 24, 2018 Mr. Appel emailed my lawyer Mr. Bellas the following, "When we were last in court, you had asked for the amount for our attorney's fee claim remaining on out complaint. Our total fees and expense is, to date, $20,101.21." Just to make in abundantly clear to everyone. After Mr. Appel collected over $40,000 for a claim that started with an offer to settle for a little over $4,000, he is now asking $20,101.21 for the 3 page motion of a summary judgement for his fee to collect the $24,725.56 in the partial summary judgement. I would love to see Mr. Appel stand before a jury and explain that as a lawyer, he wants $20,101.21 in lawyer fees to collect on an unpaid fee of $19,373.12 (plus 5% monthly compound interest which totaled $24,725.56) with a straight face. These fees that are stated in Mr. Appel's engagement letter as, "in the event of litigation to enforce this agreement you agree to pay our reasonable attorney's fees and cost." It is my understanding that most of lawyer's engagement letters do not include such language and Illinois courts very seldom if ever award such damages. The irony of all of this is that I went to Mr. Appel in the first place to defend myself against being sued even though I was the one being damaged in the first place. Throughout the trial courts and appellate courts they all agreed that I was the victim and damaged but because of Mr. Appel and only Mr. Appel I have been awarded nothing and have spent several thousand dollars in lawyer fees. Lastly as for Mr. Appel's request for you to visit avvo.com to see "many positive reviews from our clients" please note that when I wrote my bad review on May 29, 2014 he only had one previous review from 2007. One day after my review he miraculously had two 5 star reviews, 4 within one week and enough within a month (all 5 starts eh?) to place my bad review to the bottom of the site. Goes to show how fully honest he is.

I recently was referred to Brendan by another lawyer to a civil case involving the status of my…read morelicense due to being "sued" by another party i was in an accident with back in 2015. Brendan was more than willing to meet with me to discuss my options and what I needed. Not only did he solve my issue quickly and effectively, he kept me in the loop at all times and let me know whenever I needed to step in and take action. Himself and his Of Counsel, Selwyn made sure to clear anything left over on my license that had to do with being "sued" in 2015 and I even got some of my retainer money returned! I am so grateful to them for helping me out and would recommend to others with similar issues/cases.