Peck Ritchey, LLC offers a broad scope of services ranging from basic estate planning to complex litigation. The estate planning lawyers at Peck Ritchey have proven experience in reducing exposure to gift, estate, and inheritance taxes, as well as special needs planning. Our estate planning lawyers provide advice on techniques that can be used not only upon death, but during your life to enable wealth to pass on to your intended beneficiaries in the most tax efficient manner possible.

Peck Ritchey’s litigation lawyers are recognized leaders in estate, trust and guardianship litigation. Peck Ritchey represents all parties to decedent’s estate litigation, trust litigation, contested guardianship as well as other areas of fiduciary litigation. In addition to will and trust contests, Peck Ritchey handles disputed accountings, recovery of assets, claims, heirship disputes, disputed guardianships and other estate litigation.

Peck Ritchey, LLC’s attorneys are frequently involved in drafting new legislation for consideration and passage by the Illinois General Assembly. All of Peck Ritchey, LLC’s attorneys are members of the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois Bar Association in addition to other legal associations. (Kerry R. Peck is a past President of the 22,000 member Chicago Bar Association.) These memberships are used to stay apprised of current trends and to improve the quality of our service, as well as to find innovative and compassionate approaches to current legal issues.

Practice areas include:
• Probate, Trust, and Guardianship Litigation
• Administration of Estates, Trusts, and Guardianships
• Estate Planning and Special Needs
• Alzheimer's Disease Planning
• Elder Law
• Asset Protection and Medicaid Planning
• Special Needs Planning
• Corporate Law, Including Small and Family Business Planning
• Guardianship Administration
• Guardianship Litigation
• Litigation Against Elder Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation
• Nursing Home Abuse/Neglect

Office Locations:

Chicago
321 S. Plymouth Ct.
6th Floor
Chicago, IL 60604

Lake Forest
100 S. Saunders Rd.
Suite 150
Lake Forest, IL 60045 

Oak Brook
700 Commerce Drive
Suite 500
Oak Brook, IL 60523

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Margolis Weldon was founded in February 2015 with the promise of redefining the legal experience by helping people protect what they value most. While working together at an elder law firm, Matt and Lauren realized how cohesive their working relationship was and the similarity in their styles of estate planning and client advocacy. Matt and Lauren have an entrepreneurial spirit and a strong desire to be valued contributors to the fields of elder law and estate planning, while supporting clients and their families through some of life's most difficult transitions. More importantly, they understand how challenging it can be for people to talk about death and dying, and they are committed to making the planning process as comfortable as possible. Matt and Lauren's goal is to have their clients truly enjoy working with the firm while accomplishing their goals.

Taking care of your legal needs.

We are your local law firm for all of your legal needs in estate planning, real estate, business law and civil litigation across the Chicagoland area and beyond. We have the expertise, experience and accessibility to provide you with complete legal services in McHenry County where we live, work and participate in the communities we serve. We also provide legal services in the State, Federal and Appellate Courts throughout the State of Illinois.