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BRENDAN HAMMER

Brendan Hammer entered college interested in the performing arts. “I wanted to be a playwright or an actor,” says Hammer, today an attorney focusing on complex, high net-worth family law matters. “I eventually realized litigation was a way to use my communicative and emotive skills in concrete ways to make a tangible difference for clients

THOMAS T. FIELD

Thomas T. Field of Beermann LLP has built a reputation in family law for representing high networth individuals across all industries throughout the U.S., including C-Suite executives of Fortune 500 companies, private business owners, professional athletes, and internationally recognized entertainers. Field was named one of the Top 40 Attorneys Under Forty in Illinois in 2010

MICHAEL SCHMIEGE

Michael P. Schmiege is a Criminal Defense and Trial Attorney who runs a nationally recognized boutique law firm based in Hinsdale, handling criminal defense and complex litigation throughout the country. He’s a seasoned trial attorney with a reputation for getting the best possible results for clients. “I understand that no matter what the accusations are,

SCOTT A. BURTON

Scott A. Burton, a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Virginia School of Law, approaches his law practice with a unique perspective, one that focuses on client service and an advanced problem-solving approach to both legal and non-legal issues. “I find tremendous joy in working with individuals, families, and business owners to simplify

Portrait of an Artist

Diane Crites was a young girl living in Detroit, or maybe it was Florida, when she first realized that she saw the world a little differently from others. An alley vignette could be a black-and-white photo. A field of flowers could be an abstract painting or an expressionist drawing in charcoal. Everything, everywhere she went,

Home Is Where The Art Is

FOR NEARLY 50 years, Susan Lawson Bouma’s proverbial “happy place” has been in front of a canvas. The colorful, oversized abstract paintings she creates are bold, infused with energy and movement and often left without titles so those who acquire them can make their own artistic interpretations. “I rarely name paintings,” says Bouma, who moved

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