With almost 20 years of legal experience, Tim O'Brien brings a mature eye to estate planning. As the father of young kids, he also understands and appreciates the needs of families with school-age children. In his work with O'Brien Estate Law, LLC, Tim works to make sure his clients don't get cookie cutter estate plans. He takes the time to understand each person's or family's wishes and builds the plan around their specific circumstances. Tim also firmly believes that an estate plan is not just something you do and put on a shelf. Each plan needs to be reviewed as life's circumstances change. One of his favorite things about working with families is giving them the peace of mind that a parent's legacy will continue and their children will be cared for as the parent wishes.
- Northwestern University
- MBA
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- University of Illinois - Chicago
- J.D.
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- Honors: Cum Laude; Law Review Editor; Moot Court; Order of the Coif
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- Marquette University
- B.S. (1996) | Business Administration
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- Managing Partner
- O'Brien Estate Law, LLC
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- Founder
- Eighty 20 Partners
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- Director of Legal Services
- DWF Group
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- Managing Attorney
- Adecco Group
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- Executive Director
- Open Books Ltd
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- Assistant Attorney General
- Office of the Illinois Attorney General
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- Research Attorney/Clerk
- Illinois Appellate Court
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- Associate Attorney
- Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
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- Clean Your House: Practical Steps to Take Before Implementing Project Management
- American Bar Association Law Practice Today
- Why Estate Planning Matters, Lunch and Learn, Oak Park, Illinois
- Maximize Productivity Through Design Thinking and Lean Principles, TECHSHOW 2024, Chicago
- American Bar Association
- People, Process, Technology Triumvirate, TECHSHOW 2024, Chicago
- American Bar Association
- Quick, What's The Status?, ABA Webinar CLE Series, Virtual
- American Bar Association
- Panelist on CLE discussion about the use of project management to run a law firm as efficiently as possible.
- State Bar of Illinois
- Member
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- American Bar Association
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- Activities: Real Property Trusts and Estates Division Law Practice Division
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- Illinois State Bar Association
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- Illinois
- Supreme Court of Illinois
- ID Number: 6286995
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- New York
- New York State Office of Court Administration
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- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- English: Spoken, Written
- Q. Father is on ventilator and unsure if there’s a will. His older sister is taking titles and other things out of his home
- A: Sorry to hear about your father. First, I presume since he is on a ventilator, he is not conscious or competent to answer questions about whether he has a will or not. Second, as long as he does not have a spouse (who is currently alive and to whom he is currently married), you and your siblings would be next in line to inherit his estate. Third, it is not clear what your father's sister is taking from the house. If they are items that legally belong to her or your father gave her permission to take the items, she is entitled to retrieve them. If they are not items that legally belong to her and she does not have permission, she is interfering with the legal order of who should inherit those ... Read More