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Louis S. Freedman
630-983-0770
Louis Freedman limits his practice to creditors’ rights. He is a graduate of Washington University, St. Louis and The John Marshall Law School. Mr. Freedman is a Past President of the Illinois Creditors’ Bar Association, having also served as Legislative Vice President, and has assisted them in drafting and passage of key legislation in the Illinois General Assembly to save Wage Deduction and Citations to Discover Assets, and headed the effort to reinstate garnishments upon federal and postal employees.
He is a charter member of the National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys (NARCA), is the current President-Elect after having chaired the Federal Governmental Affairs Committee, where he developed and strengthened relationships with key Members of Congress. Other memberships include the Commercial Law League of America, as well as the American, Illinois State and Chicago Bar Associations. Lou is a former Chair Arbitrator for the Mandatory Court Annexed Arbitration Program of DuPage County, Illinois. He is a frequent speaker before various Bar and Trade Associations, and has lectured for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education.
Thomas J. Anselmo
630-983-0770
Thomas
Anselmo’s concentration is in residential/commercial closings and
transactions, REO transactions, title insurance, mortgage lender
services and estate planning. A graduate of the University of Illinois
and John Marshall Law School (High Distinction); a member of the
Illinois State Bar Association and Chicago Bar Association; an
affiliate member of Real Estate Owned Managers Association of
California (REOMAC); past president and current member of Pleasantdale
School District 107 Board of Education; police commissioner in the
Village of Indian Head Park, Illinois; President of the River Forest
Country Club Education Scholarship Foundation; Vice President and
Director of the River Forest Country Club and a speaker at Chicago area
conferences and seminars.
Steven C. Lindberg 
630-983-0770
Steven C. Lindberg practices in the areas of creditor's rights, foreclosure, and creditor bankruptcy law. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois (B.A., 1976) and the John Marshall Law School (J.D., 1980). He is licensed in both Illinois and Florida. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, American Bar Association, the Florida Bar Association, DuPage County Bar Association, Kane County Bar Association, American Financial and Legal Network, Mortgage Bankers Association, Society for Human Resource Management; Association of Legal Administrators, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees, the National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys and the past Chair of the Law Practice Management Committee of the Illinois State Bar Association. He is a past Board Member and Vice Chair for the DuPage Credit Union and served on its Executive Committee. He had previously served as Treasurer and on the Supervisory Committee for the Credit Union. He also is a past board member of Paradigm Financial Services Inc, a mortgage company and served as its Chairman. He is a past Board Member, Vice Chair and Chair Person for the District 205 Foundation for Academic Excellence, a not-for-profit corporation to enhance the educational experience of all students within District 205, Elmhurst, Illinois.
He is the co-author of :
• Steven C. Lindberg & Wayne F. Bender, The Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Law, 76 Ill. Bar Journal 800 ( 1987)
• Robert H. Rappe & Steven C. Lindberg, Obtaining Possession After a Residential Foreclosure: Your Case May Just be Beginning, 23 General Practice Newsletter 3 ( November 1994), Illinois State Bar Association and 40 Real Property Newsletter 2 (September 1994) Illinois State bar Association.
• Robert H. Rappe & Steven C. Lindberg, Supreme Court Provides Some Guidance for Advising Clients on Holding Title as Tenants by the Entirety, 45 Real Property Newsletter 6 ( June 2000) Illinois State Bar Association.
• Steven C. Lindberg & Robert H. Rappe, Jr., Foreclosures, Chapter 27, Residential Real Estate (IICLE, 2011)
• Robert H. Rappe, Jr. & Steven C. Lindberg, Deficiencies, Surpluses and Entitlements, Chapter 10, Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Practice (IICLE, 2003)
• Steven C. Lindberg, Disaster Preparedness, The Bottom Line, Vol. 27, No.4,(June 2006) Illinois Bar Association
He has also been a presenter at various seminars and before trade association groups. His past presentations include IICLE presentations on Mortgage Foreclosure, ISBA Presentation on Foreclosing in Federal Court, ISBA Small Firm and Solo Conference, 2010 on Managing Your Practice in Difficult Economic Times, and a panelist at the IRELA November 2010 Meeting on Foreclosure Moratoriums.
• “Mentoring-what we have to do”, The Bottom Line, Illinois State Bar Association, April, 2011.
Jerome E. Riley
630-983-0770
Jerome
Riley’s practice is primarily concentrated in the areas of civil
litigation, bankruptcy, real estate and foreclosure. He is a graduate
of the University of Notre Dame ( 1971), holds a Masters Degree in
business from DePaul University ( 1983) and a law degree from The John
Marshall Law School ( 1986). He is a member of the Federal Bar, Federal
Trial Bar and the Illinois Bar Association.
Douglas A. Oliver 
630-983-0770
Douglas
A. Oliver practices in the areas of mortgage foreclosure, collections
and real estate law. Mr. Oliver, an experienced trial lawyer, focuses
mainly on contested foreclosure and collection matters. Mr. Oliver is a
graduate of Drake Law School (1993, with honors) and is licensed to
practice in the state and federal courts of Illinois. Mr. Oliver is
experienced in trial of foreclosure matters and has successfully
litigated numerous issues relative to such legal terrain as the
Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Law, the federal Truth in Lending Act,
the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act and the federal Real Estate Settlement
Procedures Act within the context of mortgage foreclosure.
Barbara Nilsen
630-983-0770
Barbara
Nilsen practices in the areas of civil litigation, real estate and
foreclosure. She is a graduate of University of Illinois Chicago
(2002) and the John Marshall Law School (2005). She is licensed
to practice law in the State of Illinois and is a member of the Chicago
Bar Association, American Bar Association, Illinois State Bar
Association and Illinois Creditors’ Bar Association.
Clay A. Mosberg
630-983-0770
Clay
A. Mosberg practices in the areas of mortgage foreclosure, collections,
bankruptcy, and residential real estate. Mr. Mosberg’s prior experience
includes employment as an in-house counsel for a large financial
institution. He received his B.A. from Rockford College (1971) and his
J.D. from The University of Kansas (1974).He is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois and in the Federal
Courts. Mr. Mosberg is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association
and he has spoken on consumer bankruptcy law seminars, including IICLE,
and before numerous trade association groups.
Melissa Nesheim
630-983-0770
Melissa A.
Nesheim practices in the areas of mortgage foreclosure, collections, bankruptcy,
and residential real estate. She is a
graduate of DePaul University (2003) and DePaul University College of Law
(2006). She is licensed to practice law
in the State of Illinois and the State of
Connecticut. She is a member of the
Illinois State Bar Association, American Bar Association, the Connecticut Bar
Association, the Connecticut Pro Bono Network and the Connecticut Trial Lawyers
Association.
Karl Meyer
630-983-0770
Karl
V. Meyer, practices in the areas of foreclosure law, creditor's rights
and related litigation, corporate transactional law, internet law,
adult entertainment law and real estate transactions. He is a graduate
of Bradley University (B.S. Cum Laude1989) and University of Illinois
College of Law (J.D. 1993), and is licensed to practice in the State of
Illinois, in Federal Court in the Northern, District of Illinois and in
Federal court in the Northern District of Indiana. He is a member of
the Illinois State Bar Association. He has been a speaker at various
seminars on Bankruptcy issues. He is also the author and co-author of
several articles and publications. He has also been a presenter at
various seminars.
Mary Spitz
630-983-0770
Mary
Spitz practices in the areas of collections, foreclosures, and real
estate law. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (2006) and Saint Louis University School of Law
(2009). She is licensed to practice law in the state of Illinois and is
a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar
Association.
Michael R. Polk
630-983-0770
Michael
R. Polk is a graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, with an
undergraduate degree from DePaul University. Born and raised in
Chicago, Mr. Polk has lived most of his life in the Chicago area. He
has practiced in the area of consumer and commercial creditor
litigation since shortly after he was admitted to the bar in 1982.
Currently serving on the Board of the Illinois Creditors’ Bar
Association, he has been a member of the Illinois State Bar
Association’s Law Related Education for the Public Committee, which he
also chaired. Mr. Polk has lectured on creditors’ rights topics
including the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Servicemembers
Civil Relief Act. Mr. Polk is also admitted to the Trial Bar for the
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Bryan D. Hughes
630-983-0770
Bryan
D. Hughes practices in the areas of mortgage foreclosure, collections,
and real estate law. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (2006) and The John Marshall Law School (2009). He is
licensed to practice law in the state of Illinois and is a member of
the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the
Chicago Bar Association, and the DuPage County Bar Association.
Ann W. Lopez
630-983-0770Ann
W. Lopez practices in the areas of mortgage foreclosure, bankruptcy,
real estate law and creditors’ rights. She is a graduate of the
University of Kansas (BA, 1980 and JD, 1985,) and holds an MBA
(Thunderbird School of Global Management, 1982) and CPA (State of
Kansas, 1986.) She is also fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. Ms.
Lopez is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois and in
Federal Court and is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association,
the Chicago Bar Association and the Will County Bar Association.
Jonathan Nusgart
630-983-0770Jonathan Nusgart practices in the areas of mortgage foreclosure, real estate, and consumer financial services litigation. He has represented financial institutions in class action and single asset matters, in both state and federal courts. He is a graduate of the University of Florida (1988, B.A.) and of the California Western School of Law (1991, J.D.). Mr. Nusgart has successfully litigated claims for violation of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), the Home Ownership Equity Protection Act (HOEPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), and the Fair Housing Act (FHA) in both the trial and appellate courts, and has represented lenders in numerous mortgage foreclosure and title insurance litigation matters. He is licensed to practice in both California and Illinois as well as the Southern District of California and the Northern District of Illinois. He is a member of the Chicago, DuPage County, and Illinois State Bar Associations.
Michael S. Bablo
630-983-0770
Michael S. Bablo practices in the areas of mortgage foreclosure, collections and real estate law. His prior experience includes over ten years of practicing as a creditor’s attorney in both mortgage foreclosures and collections. He received his B.A. from Purdue University (1993) and his J.D. from Temple University (1996). He is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois and the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.
William B. Kalbac
630-983-0770
William B. Kalbac practices in the area of mortgage foreclosure. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia (BS, 2000), Washington University in St. Louis (BS, 2004) and The John Marshall Law School (JD, 2009). Mr. Kalbac is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois and in Federal Court and is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association and the DuPage County Bar Association.
John Gerrity
630-983-0770
John Gerrity practices in the areas of mortgage foreclosure, collections, and real estate law. He is a graduate of Monmouth College (B.A. Cum Laude 2007) and the University of Dayton School of Law (J.D. 2010). He completed mediation training at Northwestern University (2010). Mr. Gerrity is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois and is a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, and the DuPage County Bar Association.
Rosemarie Hobbs
630-983-0770
Rosemarie Hobbs concentrates in residential closings and transactions, REO transactions and title insurance. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Northern Illinois Law School (cum laude), and is licensed to practice in the State of Illinois, Appellate Court of Illinois and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Ms. Hobbs is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, DuPage County Bar Association, Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association (IRELA), President of the Board of Directors of the Young Naperville Singers and a member of Rotary Club, south side of Naperville.
Jared Duke
630-983-0770
Jared M. Duke practices in the area of collections. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008) and the Chicago-Kent College of Law (2011). He is licensed to practice law in the state of Illinois and is a member of the American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association.
G. Stephen Caravajal, Jr.
630-983-0770
Steve Caravajal practices in the areas of mortgage and mechanics lien foreclosures, real estate law, consumer fraud and consumer finance litigation, and consumer collections. He is a graduate of Ohio State University (2001) and DePaul University College of Law (2004), and is licensed to practice in the State of Illinois, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Caravajal is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association.
Chris Weldon
630-983-0770
Chris Weldon practices in the areas of mortgage foreclosures, collections, and real estate law. Mr. Weldon is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(2002) and the John Marshall Law School(2005). He is licensed to practice law in the state of Illinois and the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Weldon is also a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.
Christopher S. Iaria630-983-0770
Christopher S. Iaria practices in the areas of mortgage foreclosure, title insurance litigation, and real estate law. He is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara(2004) and the Thomas M. Cooley Law School(2009). Mr. Iaria is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois and in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Iaria is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, and the Chicago Bar Association.
Michael Anselmo630-983-0770
Michael Anselmo practices in the areas of mortgage foreclosure and real estate law. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.S., 2006) and Washington University in St. Louis School of Law (J.D., 2011). He is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois and is a member of the American Bar Association, the DuPage Bar Association, and the Chicago Bar Association. While attending law school, Mr. Anselmo served as Vice President for the legal fraternity Phi Alpha Delta, as a representative of the Justinian Society of Lawyers, and as a judge for the St. Louis Urban Debate League. He is also a member of the Chicago Italian American Charitable Organization.
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