About Us
Lynam & Associates
LAW OFFICES LYNAM & ASSOCIATES Chicago Office: 1 North LaSalle Street, Suite 3100, Chicago, Illinois, 60602 Barrington Office: 1250 S. Grove, Suite 200, Barrington, Illinois, 60010 Phone: (312) 641-1500 Fax: (312) 558-9899
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LYNAM & ASSOCIATES
Lynam & Associates is an entrepreneurial, client-oriented
law firm. We counsel and represent new and established
U.S. and international businesses, not for profit
corporations, and entrepreneurs. We believe that every
client of the firm is important and is entitled to prompt
personal attention and service at a fair and reasonable cost.
We handle a wide range of negotiation, arbitration, and
litigation matters. Mr. Lynam is admitted to practice before
the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court for the
Northern District of Illinois, and the Illinois Supreme Court.
We provide service and advice in connection with the purchase, sale, leasing, development,
and syndication of residential, commercial, and industrial real estate. The firm handles
zoning and development projects, construction, and related issues. Mr. Lynam has
represented Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in commercial leasing, construction, and zoning
matters, the Kemper Companies in real estate financing projects, the Prudential in zoning
related matters, McDonald's Corporation in condemnation and land title disputes, and
Citizens for Conservation in land conservation matters. The firm is a agent for Chicago Title
Insurance Company, the oldest and largest title insurance provider in the U.S.
We deal with the full spectrum of legal problems of clients in creating, sustaining, and
terminating corporations, partnerships, and other forms of business enterprises;
trademark registration, maintenance, protection, and copyright; technology, including
defense of online aspects of intellectual property; business financing, and acquisition;
advising business and institutional clients in employment law matters, including the design
of employee programs and handbooks; and all aspects of insurance.
We give tax advice on corporate, individual, estate, and partnership matters; represent
individuals and businesses in proceedings before the IRS, including audits, appeals and U.S.
Tax Court matters. We prepare various elections and returns for businesses, estates,
individuals and nonprofit organizations for filing with the Internal Revenue Service. We have
been admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court since 1978.
The firm is committed to and actively participates in community service by serving on and
working with boards of private corporations, nonprofit, and charitable organizations, and by
working directly with those organizations, enhancing the firm's ability to serve its clients and
their communities.
It is firm policy to determine fee arrangements at the outset of each matter and to make
certain that the arrangement is understood by and satisfactory to the client. Each client
receives a monthly accounting of service, showing a detailed description of work done on
the client's behalf and the time expended. Hourly rates are set conservatively as the firm is
currently seeking to expand. Clients are not charged for overhead cost items as with many
other firms. We charge only for actual out-of-pocket costs we incur on behalf of our clients.
We offer special fee arrangements for clients who have a regular need for legal services, for
whom a discounted hourly rate is available.
Our legal services are comprehensive, but our emphasis is not on who we are, but on what
we can do for clients. We practice law to serve our clients, to solve their problems, to
protect and defend their assets, and to make their lives and businesses more secure.