Business Formation, Litigation and Transactions

Many aspects of starting, maintaining, and dissolving a business or legal entity may require the help of a legal professional. Bodwin & Associates, P.C. assists business entities and individual shareholders, members, and partners in a wide variety of business transactions across many different industries. Our attorneys can help represent clients with the following issues:

• Breach of contract
• Contract drafting and negotiation
• Contracts with other entities
• Corporate/limited liability issues
• Dissolution of business entities
• Employment-related matters
• Forming and selecting the correct business entity (e.g., partnership, LLC, S Corp.)
• Internal agreements (e.g., buy-sell agreements, employment contracts, and non-compete agreements)
• Partnership/limited-liability partnership issues
• Tax planning
• Understanding the legal dimensions of establishing a business in a foreign country

For a free consultation regarding our business law services, please contact Bodwin & Associates, P.C. at 312.207.2008.

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Criminal Defense

Bodwin & Associates, P.C. has been representing people with a wide range of criminal cases since 1986. Our attorneys handle every level of crime—from simple misdemeanors to capital cases— and the network of investigative resources at their disposal will help you significantly in your defense. Among the many crimes our attorneys have handled are:

• Assault & Battery
• Aggravated Assault
• Breaking & Entering
• Criminal sexual conduct crimes
• Domestic Violence
• Drug manufacture, delivery, and possession
• "Drug-bust" crimes
• Drunk driving
• Felonious assault
• Homicide crimes
• Robbery
• Sex Offender Registry crimes
• Theft crimes – Embezzlement, Fraud, Shoplifting

Having a great team of attorneys on your case makes a big difference, as does hiring criminal defense lawyers who know the system. With its extensive knowledge and experience in the practice of criminal law, Bodwin & Associates, P.C. works hard to provide clients with the best and most aggressive criminal defense representation in Illinois.

For a free consultation regarding your criminal law case, please contact Bodwin & Associates, P.C. at 312.207.2008.

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Estate Planning

Estate planning allows you to specify where each of your assets goes upon your death, so that your financial and philanthropic goals are met even after you've passed on. Bodwin & Associates, P.C. helps clients with their estate planning needs. Building on the foundation of a Last Will and Testament, our attorneys utilize many different estate planning tools to transfer clients' wealth to their beneficiaries with minimum tax consequences, while making sure that clients' estates have enough liquidity to meet any remaining debt obligations. Our attorneys also assist clients with issues concerning estate and trust administration, charitable gift planning, and any litigation arising from these issues.

For a free consultation regarding our estate planning services, please contact Bodwin & Associates, P.C. at 312.207.2008.

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Family Law

Bodwin & Associates, P.C. has been representing clients in divorces and family law cases since 1986. Our attorneys have worked with many people to obtain a divorce and helped many people resolve post-judgment difficulties. In particular, Attorney Randolph Bodwin has considerable experience handling the legal issues that arise during a divorce. He and the other attorneys at Bodwin & Associates, P.C. are ready and willing to help clients in their time of need and will do everything in their power to achieve the results that clients seek. Among the many family law issues with which our attorneys can assist you are:

• Annulments
• Child custody, including joint custody and sole custody
• Child support
• Child visitation
• Dissolution of marriage and legal separation
• Divorce
• Domestic relations
• Maintenance, formerly known as alimony
• Marital Settlement Agreements
• Negotiated settlements
• Paternity
• Premarital Agreements
• Post-nuptial Agreements
• Post-decree and Post-judgment issues and modifications
• Property division
• Qualified Domestic Relations Orders
• Restraining Orders
• Retirement benefits
• Separation Agreements
• Spousal support

For a free consultation regarding your family law case, please contact Bodwin & Associates, P.C. at 312.207.2008.

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Personal Injury

"Personal injury" is a legal term for an injury to a person's body, mind, or emotions that results from another person's intentional or negligent act (or failure to act). Bodwin & Associates, P.C. has extensive experience litigating personal injury cases. Due to our attorneys' extensive experience, the firm is exceptionally good at evaluating clients' cases, advising them on their options, and taking their cases to trial if necessary to achieve the results clients seek. While no guarantees can be made regarding the outcome of a case, Bodwin & Associates, P.C. can guarantee that our attorneys will do their very best to represent your interests and to bring your case to a successful resolution.

Bodwin & Associates, P.C. typically (though not always) takes cases on a contingency basis—i.e., the firm's fee is a percentage of the award clients receive to compensate them for their personal injury, plus any out-of-pocket expenses the firm incurred in litigating a client's case (e.g. filing fees, deposition transcript orders). If the firm is unable to recover an award to compensate a client for his or her personal injury, then the client will be asked to pay for no more than the firm's out-of-pocket expenses.

Among the personal injury law claims with which our attorneys can assist clients are claims arising out of:

• Auto accidents
• Airplane accidents
• Assault and Battery
• Bicycle accidents
• Construction accidents
• Accidents arising from failure to maintain safe premises
• Accidents caused by negligently designed or manufactured products
• Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
• Medical malpractice
• Railroad accidents
• Slip-and-fall cases

When an employee is injured on the job by the negligence of another individual or company, that employee may have both a workers' compensation claim and a personal injury claim. For a free consultation regarding your personal injury claim, please contact Bodwin & Associates, P.C. at 312.207.2008.

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Taxation

Sound tax planning is critical to the achievement of long-term financial success. Through our attorneys' tax-planning skill and knowledge, Bodwin & Associates, P.C. can help clients from Illinois and throughout the United States and abroad preserve their assets and protect themselves against unnecessary risk and liability. Our attorneys design customized tax-planning strategies to preserve individual clients' assets and ensure a smooth transfer of wealth from one generation of clients' families to another. Our attorneys can also help businesses large or small establish tax-friendly business structures and minimize tax liability.

In addition, Bodwin & Associates, P.C. represents individuals, business owners, and business entities engaged in tax controversies. Our attorneys are dedicated to providing legal solutions tailored to meet each client's needs. They have experience in providing a broad range of tax-controversy services, including, but not limited to:

• Appealing audit and collection actions
• Audit representation
• Employee-independent contractor analyses
• Installment agreements
• Offers in compromise
• Penalty defenses
• Preparation of delinquent tax returns
• Relief from liens, levies, seizures, and wage garnishments

From the time an audit begins, Bodwin & Associates, P.C. works with clients to develop an audit strategy and manage the audit, in order to obtain a timely and favorable settlement of clients' tax controversies. If, however, the negotiation and administrative process does not produce a satisfactory outcome, our attorneys will not hesitate to seek a more favorable outcome through judicial resolution, when necessary.

For a free consultation regarding our tax law services, please contact Bodwin & Associates, P.C. at 312.207.2008.

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Workers' Compensation

A serious workplace injury can saddle you with steep medical bills and rob you of your ability to work. But the law offers remedies that can help you get back on track and look forward to a stable financial future.

An employee has a workers' compensation claim when he or she has sustained an injury arising out of and in the course of his or her employment. A workers' compensation claim is not a lawsuit filed against the employer: It is an application filed at the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission for benefits available to the injured worker under the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act, including, but not limited to: payment of all reasonable and necessary medical expenses, choice of treating physicians, temporary total disability payments while the injured worker is unable to work, and permanent partial disability or wage differential benefits based on the injured worker's ability to work in the future.

Bodwin & Associates, P.C. helps injured workers with workers' compensation claims and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) claims. When an employee is injured on the job by the negligence of another individual or company, that employee may have both a workers' compensation claim and a personal injury claim. For a free consultation regarding your workers' compensation claim, please contact Bodwin & Associates, P.C. at 312.207.2008.

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