Email:
klavelle@lavellelaw.com
PRACTICE AREAS
Federal Taxation
Business Law
Commercial Real Estate
Estate Planning
EDUCATION
J.D., DePaul University, College of Law
M.B.A., DePaul University, College of Commerce | Finance and Economics
B.A., North Park College, Chicago, Illinois | Economics
BAR CERTIFICATIONS
Admitted to the Bar of Illinois Supreme Court; Federal District Court; Northern District of Illinois; United States Tax Court. Bar Association Memberships
BAR ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
American Bar Association; Illinois State Bar Association; Chicago Bar Association, serving on committees in corporate counseling, federal tax and estate planning.
PUBLICATIONS

I.R.C. SECTION 482, Tax Implications for Closely-Held Domestic Business Associations , Virginia Tax Review, 1989

CONSPIRACY IN CLOSELY-HELD CORPORATIONS , Volume 12, Issue 1, published in the Criminal Justice Journal, Western State University College of Law

DRAFTING SHAREHOLDER AGREEMENTS FOR THE CLOSELY-HELD BUSINESS , DePaul Business Law Journal, Volume 4, Number 1

THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF STARTING A NEW BUSINESS , published in The Practical Accountant

WHY EVERY EMPLOYER SHOULD ADOPT A SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKING POLICY, published in 2 parts in the August and September 2010 edition of Construction Equipment Distribution Journal

Mr. Lavelle has also published several pieces in various Bar Association newsletters and real estate publications.

PAST INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCES/ SPEECHES GIVEN

Mr. Lavelle is currently an adjunct faculty member at John Marshall Law School, teaching a course in I.R.S. Practice and Procedure. He worked as an adjunct faculty member at William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, Illinois. As an adjunct faculty member, he taught courses in Business Law and Economics.

He has spoken at various Chambers of Commerce and Public Libraries in Chicago and the Chicagoland area and was a law and tax "group leader" in a business counseling organization entitled "Insight for Business." Mr. Lavelle is also the former host of NewsMakers, a public policy news/information program on AT&T Broadband, channel 3.

Mr. Lavelle has also addressed several local chapters of the Illinois C.P.A. Society and insurance brokers on various aspects of estate and business planning.

Kerry Lavelle is now a member of the CHICAGO PLANNING COUNCIL, an organization of interrelated estate planning professionals, such as attorneys, CPA's, and financial advisors.

He has taught Harper College Courses in starting up new businesses, and how to buy existing businesses.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Mr. Lavelle, along with the other attorneys and staff at Lavelle Law, Ltd. established the Palatine Food Drive in 2002 to support the Palatine Food Pantry in Palatine, Illinois. As a large-scale food drive, Mr. Lavelle solicits the assistance of supermarket clients and food distributors in the Chicagoland area. Corporate involvement combined with community outreach makes the Palatine Food Drive one of the most successful Food Drives in the Northwest Suburbs.

Has served on the Board of Directors of the Society for the Preservation of Human Dignity (PHD), a Palatine not-for-profit organization serving unwed mothers and their families

In sixteenth year as a volunteer attorney for the Clinic for the Disabled and Elder Law (CDEL). Mr. Lavelle has agreed to become the Federal Tax Partner of CDEL, helping administer and evaluate the tax practice CDEL.

Sat on an advisory board of the Palatine Food Pantry

Worked with Senator Matt Murphy on amending the Illinois statues to replace offensive terminology regarding citizens with developmental disabilities, using more descriptive and sensitive language