Illinois STEVEN IVY law firm, patent, trademark, copyright, business, real estate, commercial, industrial, residential, mediation, arbitration, contract, business formation.

We provide legal services with global outreach. Through its professional alliances, the firm can assist clients with their legal matters domestically and abroad. The firm has developed professional relationships with attorneys, engineers, scientists and consultants in various foreign countries, allowing us to protect our clients interests internationally. Our professional associations are particularly effective in Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, Italy, France and in many other member states of the European Union.

STEVEN IVY P.C. provides wide-ranging legal services, covering virtually all aspects of business law, including: CONTRACT LAW, addressing the most common situations businesses confront on a daily basis, and the most unique contractual arrangements. LITIGATION, where we carefully weigh the long-term, and the short-term, pros and cons of each action. EMPLOYMENT, where we counsel clients on issues related to employment screening, labor relations, discrimination, sexual harassment, employee privacy and termination. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, providing advice on patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition and trade secrets. FINANCE, representing various commercial lenders in a wide variety of financial transactions, diligently focusing on minimizing the transactional risk and obtaining our clients' desired results. REAL ESTATE, preparing environmental indemnity agreements, obtaining state and federal permits, examining and resolving title issues, negotiating and drafting leases, sale and purchase agreements.

Corporations, not-for-profits, small businesses and individuals, represent the four distinct groups of our clients. This grouping was developed to better serve our clients, by recognizing that each group has a different scope of operations, therefore, each group deals with different operational restrictions, which exposes them to different legal obstacles.

The firm's legal scope and expertise is strengthen by its professional associations. Although founded as a solo practice and supported by a group of paralegal employees, by utilizing reliable freelance services of other attorneys and professionals, the firm is able to provide flexible and cost-effective legal services.

The firm's mission is to provide high quality, customized legal counsel to all of our clients. We accomplish this by developing, and maintaining, strong professional partnerships with our clients. These partnerships are founded on our ethics and comprehensive understanding of our clients' daily business functions, and the challenges they face.

The broad understanding of our clients' business functions and their needs, combined with our specific and categorized legal methods, gives our firm a competitive edge. We incorporate this edge into our daily legal practice, which in turn helps our clients accomplish their short, and long-term, business objectives.

The firm provides legal services to clients from various technological fields. From medical and dental devices, to software, e-commerce and cell phone technology, down to internet, electrical, mechanical and biotechnology, our firm's legal counsel is not only efficient, but also diverse.

 Counseling Individuals, Not-For-Profits, Small & Large Corporations

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