Criminal Law

• Theft
• Identity Theft
  Privacy and other 21st Century Employment Issues, including identity theft, e-mail policies, immigration issues, employee military service, telecommunicating and part-time employee issues.
• Restraining Order

Business and Corporate Law

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Business Disputes
  His legal career has included serving as a Lecturing Professor of Law at IIT Chicago-Kent where he taught Dispute Resolution, Mediation and Arbitration, serving as Interim Academic Dean of the Aerospace Institute of Chicago and as an adjunct professor of Business Law at the University of Wisconsin.
• Business Transactions
  The Firm represents local, regional, national and international banks and financial institutions in documenting loan transactions, including asset based and real estate secured transactions. Our extensive experience in a variety of business transactions assists us in our ability to tailor loan documents that properly protect the lender's interests while facilitating the loan transaction with the borrower.
• Limited Liability Companies
  In his practice, Mr. Morrisroe provides day-to-day counseling to owners and executives of privately owned companies, from creating new organizations, planning for existing organizations, and merger and acquisition activities. He advises clients on the proper choice of entity among corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and assists clients on a multitude of tax planning matters as they affect privately owned business owners, executives and professionals. Works to minimize the tax liabilities associated with the sale of privately owned businesses and preserve the maximum flexibility in designing various entity structures.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
  State and Federal Employment Claims – We defend our clients in state and federal courts in actions involving employment contracts, retaliation and wrongful termination claims.
• Employment Contract
  Non-Compete Covenants and Trade Secrets – We have a wealth of experience in prosecuting and defending actions involving temporary restraining orders and injunctions in matters concerning alleged violations of employment contracts and misappropriation of trade secrets.
• Employment Litigation
  Litigation: We are experienced in dealing with contentious and complex litigation, and our thorough knowledge of the labor and employment law field invariably leads to successful outcomes. We have successfully represented our clients in a variety of employment litigation matters including...
• Non-compete Agreement
  In addition, Bill handles a variety of corporate matters for the firm’s business clients. He has drafted and negotiated contracts including employment and non-compete agreements, asset purchase agreements and technology services agreements.
• Sexual Harassment

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  William concentrates his practice in commercial litigation, real estate and corporate matters. He has litigated a variety of actions in State and Federal Courts, including fraud, trade secrets, partnership and shareholder disputes, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, restrictive covenants, professional negligence and real estate disputes. Bill has also conducted numerous mediations and arbitrations, including representing clients in arbitration proceedings before the American Arbitration Association.
• Construction Litigation
  Our litigation attorneys handle a variety of litigation matters on behalf of individuals and business entities ranging from closely held businesses to Fortune 500 companies. We have successfully litigated numerous cases involving contractual breaches, employment actions, landlord-tenant issues, partnership and shareholder disputes, intellectual property disputes, probate issues, trust and will contests, mechanics’ liens, construction disputes, enforcement of notes and other monetary obligations, mortgage foreclosures, environmental actions and various other commercial disputes.
• Real Estate Transactions
  We represent sellers, purchasers, lenders and developers in all aspects of real estate transactions for both improved and unimproved land. We are experienced in recognizing and addressing the unique characteristics and nuances of each type of transaction. The scope of our expertise in real estate transactions includes the acquisition, subdivision, rezoning and development of commercial parcels in developed areas; the purchase of existing facilities for our clients’ expanding business needs; the sale or purchase of undeveloped farmland; and the purchase of income-producing property for investors.
• Land Use and Zoning
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  We are experienced in a variety of estate planning techniques. Many of our firm’s estate planning clients are owners of privately held businesses and family-owned businesses which require unique solutions while complying with the special valuation rules of Chapter 14 of the Internal Revenue Code.
• Wills
• Trusts
  We have particular experience concerning the use of family limited partnerships, credit shelter trusts, QTIP and other marital trusts, irrevocable insurance trusts, charitable trusts and foundations, special needs trusts, and minor’s trusts. We specifically tailor estate plans for our clients which are uniquely designed to meet their particular needs based upon the value of their assets and family circumstances.
• Probate
  Never turning away from difficult cases, Scott relied on his philosophy of science undergraduate education from the University of Illinois at Chicago when he brought the first case in Illinois sounding in thermo-acoustic electric wave blast brain injury. Later he successfully employed the same theory on a matter in a Wisconsin case utilizing the same neuropsychological expert from Northwestern University and physicians from the University of Chicago to make his case on the reliability of the cutting edge science of electron microscopy that proved his theory of injury. After practicing in Chicago for a number of years Scott moved to rural Galena, Illinois where he raised his family of four children. He became a named partner with a prominent local lawfirm before creating his own law firm in 1997. Scott moved back to Chicago in 2002. Over his career he has developed skills in a wide area of practices including, injury law (defense and plaintiff), probate law, trusts and estates, land use, employment law, family law, insurance law and commercial litigation.

Finance Law

• Foreclosure
• Tax Law
  Proper succession planning is a vital and growing area of concern for owners of privately owned businesses. We have planned a substantial number of succession plans for our clients over the years that encompass management buyouts, leveraged employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), transfers to family members active in the business and sales to third parties (including publicly traded strategic investors). We maintain the expertise for the complete handling, coordination and proper staffing of transactions to ensure that the objectives of the privately owned business owner are met, including the best treatment of the difficult income, estate and gift tax issues that may arise.