Every year since the firm’s inception, the attorneys have prepared Christmas dinner for our staff and we have held a spirited and cutthroat Christmas gift exchange.  Last year we decided that the gift exchange wasn’t competitive enough for our tastes, so we added some highly challenging Reindeer Games. To make the party complete we added...Read More

Each year during the Holidays, the Firm selects a charitable project or projects to support as a Firm.  In 2019, we provided books, toys, food and school supplies to the Lift Eastbrook Afterschool Program which focuses on literacy and child development at the elementary level.  Lift seeks to increase literacy rates by working with children...Read More

What will be ever do without Sheila?  Sheila May Valainis has been with the Firm since its first days as Smith and Bemenderfer at Woodfield Crossing when she worked as Neil Bemenderfer’s secretary.  She retired after 27 years on December 31, 2019.  Good for her, but so sad for us.  In her honor, we held...Read More