Levin Schreder & Carey Ltd. is one of the largest law firms devoted exclusively to estate and income tax planning in the Chicago area.

Attorneys

Scott Bieber
Scott focuses his practice in the areas of family wealth preservation, federal transfer taxation, and family business planning. He counsels individuals with their personal estate planning and owners of closely-held businesses with business succession and related issues. Scott represents executors and trustees in the administration of estates and trusts, as well as taxpayers and their executors in gift and estate tax audits. He also advises public and private charitable organizations.
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James R. Carey
Jim concentrates his practice in contested estate, trust and guardianship matters and estate and gift tax controversies. Jim has authored two chapters in the Contested Estates Manual which is a resource used by lawyers throughout Illinois. He is a frequent speaker on various fiduciary topics and has also taught a course on estate planning at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law.
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William R. Franzen
Bill dedicates his practice in family business succession and tax planning, estate planning, multigenerational wealth transfer, international tax planning, executive compensation planning, and charitable organization formation and administration matters. Bill has written extensively on trust and estate planning issues for Illinois State Bar Association and Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) publications. He has also given numerous presentations to family offices regarding current estate and tax planning matters.
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Rick Y. Gelboim
Rick focuses his practice in the area of estate planning matters. His experience also includes representing estate executors and administrators in probate court.
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Margot Gordon
Margot dedicates her practice to estate planning matters and has extensive experience dealing with sensitive and complicated family situations. She is well known and respected in the Cook County Probate Courts for her handling of complicated guardianship and decendents estates. Margot is also a published author on the topic of estate planning for disabled adults.
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Robert M. Levin
Bob primarily handles integrated tax and business issues and has practiced in the tax area his entire career. He represents clients in structuring their business transactions as well as planning their personal financial and income tax matters, including a broad range of techniques to minimize or defer the recognition of income. In addition to domestic issues, Bob has extensive experience dealing with international tax matters.
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David E. Lieberman

David represents corporate fiduciaries and individuals in complex trust and estate litigation. He has tried significant trust and estate cases, as well as complex securities, fraud and commercial cases. His wealth of experience in complex business and financial fraud disputes is integral to David’s representation of fiduciaries and beneficiaries in a broad array of disputes. He also represents individuals and businesses in civil litigation arising from alleged tax shelter promotion or participation.

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Robin Drey Maher
Robin focuses her practice on complex trust and estate controversies, as well as estate planning. She has been involved in major trust litigation, including two of the largest family trust controversy cases brought before a U.S. court in the past several years. Prior to joining the firm in 2006, Robin was an associate at Winston & Strawn in the firm's Trusts and Estates Department.
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Michael K. Moyers
Mike focuses his practice on sophisticated tax and business planning, including all aspects of estate planning for individuals and families. He has extensive experience advising closely held businesses and their owners regarding ownership succession and related tax and other legal issues.
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Carleen L. Schreder
Carleen focuses her practice on estate tax and income tax planning, working with both U.S. and international clients. She works extensively with families on multiple strategies for wealth transfer and business succession planning. She is a recipient of the Chicago Bar Foundation's Maurice Weigle Award as an Outstanding Young Lawyer in Chicago. She is also active in several social service and support organizations.
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