JEFFREY P. O’KELLEY, PARTNER & FREDRIC BRYAN LESSER, PARTNER: LESSER LUTREY PASQUESI & HOWE

Fredric Bryan Lesser has been in private law practice for 43 years as both a litigator and estate planner, representing individuals and families, and counseling owners and principals of privately held businesses. As a partner in Lesser Lutrey Pasquesi & Howe, a top trust and estate firm in Lake Forest that helps clients understand the complex laws of trust and estate planning, Lesser has developed a proficiency for drafting effective and efficient trust documents. “Trying lawsuits involving trusts and estates makes us better at drafting estate planning documents, and drafting the documents helps us to explain these documents in court,” he says. Lesser, who received his J.D. from the University of Michigan and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois, says he believes estate planning should be practical and cost-efficient. “When we are working with a client to create a plan, we encourage them to develop a simple plan yet flexible enough to allow for unexpected developments. People need individual plans that suit their lives and legacies,” Lesser says. Jeffrey P. O’Kelley, LLPH partner, former lead chair of the Lake County Bar Association Trusts and Estates Committee, and current President of the Lake County Estate Planning Council, focuses his practice in estate and trust litigation such as will and trust contests, and claims for the financial exploitation of the elderly and disabled, will and trust construction cases, complex fiduciary litigation, and contested guardianship proceedings. O’Kelley, who has written for the Illinois Bar Journal, the Illinois State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Newsletter, and the Lake County Bar Association Docket, also has extensive appellate litigation experience. O’Kelley graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, and has been licensed to practice in the state of Illinois since 2009. Lesser, O’Kelley, and their fellow attorneys at Lesser Lutrey Pasquesi & Howe understand that when they partner with clients to help them shape an estate plan, that plan will be their legacy.

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