(Main Office)

Statement of Practice

Acquisitions, Divestitures and Mergers, Banking Law, Banking Litigation, Business Law, Business Litigation, Class Action Defense, Commercial Collections, Commercial Finance Law, Commercial Leasing, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate Finance, Complex Litigation, Construction Finance, Corporate Law, Creditors Rights, Employment Law, Employment Litigation, Entertainment Law, Environmental Law, Estate Planning Law, Family Law, Hotel and Resort Law, Loan Workouts, Lender Liability, Mechanics Liens, Mortgage Foreclosure, Municipal Law, Noncompete Litigation, Probate Law, Professional Practices, Publishing Law, Real Estate Development, Real Estate Law.

Address

Suite 2310
20 South Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60603, (Cook Co.)

Phone

Phone: 312-985-0183
Fax: 312-726-2741

Website

http://www.cbklaw.com

MEMBERS OF FIRM

Gregory M. White (Member) born Chicago, Illinois, 1949; admitted to bar, 1975, Illinois. Education: DePaul University (B.A., 1971; J.D., summa cum laude, 1975); John Marshall Law School (LL.M., Taxation, 1982). Comment Editor, De Paul Law Review, 1974-1975. Instructor in Law, Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1980-1982. Member: DuPage County, Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Banking Law; Commercial Finance Law; Business Law; Corporate Law; Real Estate Law; Commercial Leasing; Estate Planning; Professional Practices.Email: Gregory M. White

Thomas F. Karaba (Member) born Chicago, Illinois, 1955; admitted to bar, 1980, Illinois. Education: Northwestern University (B.S., 1977; J.D., 1980). Member: Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Banking Law; Business Law; Commercial Finance Law; Corporate Law; Employment Law; Entertainment Law; Environmental Law; Estate Planning; Publishing Law; Real Estate.Email: Thomas F. Karaba

Scott D.H. Redman (Member) born Urbana, Illinois, 1964; admitted to bar, 1989, Illinois. Education: University of Illinois (A.B., 1986; J.D., magna cum laude, 1989). Member: Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Finance Law; Corporate Law; Banking Law; Business Law; Hotel and Resort Law; Commercial Real Estate Finance.Email: Scott D.H. Redman

Jeffrey S. Burns (Member) born New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1968; admitted to bar, 1993, Illinois. Education: Miami University (B.A., 1990); The John Marshall Law School (J.D., 1993). Member: Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Creditors Rights; Loan Workouts; Commercial Collections; Mortgage Foreclosure; Mechanics Liens.Email: Jeffrey S. Burns

Bruno W. Tabis, Jr. (Member) born Chicago, Illinois, 1946; admitted to bar, 1973, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: University of Illinois (B.S., 1973); Illinois Institute of Technology-Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D., with distinction, 1973). Associate Editor, Chicago-Kent Law Review, 1972-1973. Instructor, IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1980-1981. Member: Chicago (Chairman, 1982-1983, Young Lawyers Section; Member, Board of Managers, 1984-1986; Editor-in-Chief, Communicator, 1983-1986) and Illinois State (Real Estate Law Section Council; Chairman, 1993-1994; Board of Editors, Illinois Bar Journal, 1994—) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Business Law; Corporate; Environmental; Municipal Law; Probate; Real Estate.

Karl G. Leinberger (Member) born Springfield, Illinois, 1969; admitted to bar, 1996, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar; U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of Iowa (B.A., Finance, 1992); DePaul Law School (J.D., 1996). Editor in Chief, DePaul Business Law Journal, 1995-1996. Member: Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Intellectual Property Litigation; Class Action Defense; Employment Law; Civil Litigation; Commercial Litigation.Email: Karl G. Leinberger

Andrew Nicholas Plasz (Member) born Waukegan, Illinois, 1974; admitted to bar, 1999, Illinois; 2000, Missouri; 2001, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 2004, Trial Bar, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois and U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Education: Washington University (A.B., 1996; J.D., 1999). Associate Editor, Washington University Law Quarterly, 1998-1999. Member: Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations; The Missouri Bar. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Banking Litigation; Lender Liability; Complex Litigation; Noncompete Litigation.Email: Andrew Nicholas Plasz

Tonya M. Parravano (Member) born Jackson, Michigan, 1970; admitted to bar, 2000, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: Michigan State University (B.S., 1992); Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology (J.D., with high honors, 2000). Order of the Coif, 2000. Associate Editor, Chicago-Kent Law Review, 1997-1998. Member: Chicago, DuPage, Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Finance; Commercial Real Estate; Banking Law; Construction Finance; Real Estate Development.Email: Tonya M. Parravano

ASSOCIATE

Katherine A. Attebery (Associate) born Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 19, 1977; admitted to bar, 2007, Illinois. Education: Miami University (B.S., 2000); Loyola University (J.D., 2007). Executive Editor, Large Consumer Law Review, 2005-2007. Member: Chicago and Illinois State Bar Association. Languages: English. Practice Areas: Banking Law(50%); Commercial Finance(40%); Commercial Real Estate(10%); Corporate Law.Email: Katherine A. Attebery