Margot Gordon
margot@levinschreder.comMargot concentrates her practice on estate planning. She has experience handling the full range of estate planning matters, including wills and living trusts, generation-skipping trusts, charitable trusts, private foundations, life insurance planning, probate and guardianship. She also routinely represents corporate and individual trustees, trust beneficiaries, guardians and agents.
Margot has extensive experience in dealing with sensitive and complicated family
situations. She is well known and respected in the Cook County Probate Courts for her handling of complicated guardianships estates, including initiating the appropriate tax planning for those matters.
Prior to concentrating her practice in the estate planning area, Margot was a staff
attorney at the Cook County Public Guardian's Office for five years, where she
represented abused and neglected children, handled appeals in both state and federal appellate court, and represented the Public Guardian in disabled adult matters.
Publications:
Co-Author, Estate Planning in Illinois Guardianships, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), 2006 and 2009
"Minimizing Taxes in Illinois Minor Guardianship Estates", CBA Record, January 2007
Co-Author, "The Role of Corporate Fiduciaries in Estate Planning for Disabled Adults," CBA Record, published by the Chicago Bar Association, 2002
Co-Author, "Medicaid Planning for the Disabled: The Use of OBRA '93 Pay Back Trusts," Illinois Bar Journal, published by the Illinois State Bar Association, 1998
Recent Presentations:
"Ethical Issues in Guardianship," webinar presentation for the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), March 2009
"Estate Planning in Illinois Disabled Adult and Minor Guardianships" presented to attendees of the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) 50th Estate Planning Short Course held in Springfield, May 2007
"Guardianship and Special Needs Trusts," sponsored by the Brain Injury Association, October 2004
Education:
J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1988
B.A., University of California - San Diego, 1985
Admitted:
Illinois, 1989
Professional Activities:
Chicago Bar Association
