Business Law

• Estate Planning and Administration (Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney - Health and Property, Living Wills, Health Care Authorizations, Special Needs Trusts, Charitable Giving)
• Trademarks and Copyrights
•Business Organizations (Corporations, Partnerships, Limited Liability Corporations)

Intellectual Property (IP)

• Estate Planning and Administration (Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney - Health and Property, Living Wills, Health Care Authorizations, Special Needs Trusts, Charitable Giving)
• Trademarks and Copyrights
•Business Organizations (Corporations, Partnerships, Limited Liability Corporations)

Estate Planning

• Estate Planning and Administration (Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney - Health and Property, Living Wills, Health Care Authorizations, Special Needs Trusts, Charitable Giving)
• Trademarks and Copyrights
•Business Organizations (Corporations, Partnerships, Limited Liability Corporations)

IL, Nov 1966
Bar Number: 2678647

Illinois in 1966 and Connecticut in 1978

American Bar Association, DuPage County Bar Association, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and Association of Fund Raising Professionals

I have taught continuing legal education (CLE) seminars on topics the topic of Client Incompetency: Dementia and Your Client. I attend CLE seminars on the topics of Estate Planning, Business Law, Intellectual Property, Legal Ethics, and Litigation Discovery.

• How to Probate Your Estate and Long Term Care Protection: Investing in Your Peace of Mind (Practical Legal Publications)
• Dementia and Your Client (Institute for Continuing Education)

Case 1: Estate planning, probate administration and tax services for an elderly couple and their estate. Providing continuing legal support to their trust beneficiaries thereafter.
Case 2: Advising a successful graphics arts designer on how to set up a Limited Liability Company, secure copyright protection for her new book of product designs, and counseling and preparation of copyright licensing agreements with manufacturers of products incorporating her designs.

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Illinois

First and foremost, we believe in serving our clients' needs and employing the latest in legal technology to support those needs. We are here to help you secure your financial future and preserve your family's legacy with contemporary online estate and trust planning, and small business organization and succession planning services.

I practiced in Westport, Connecticut from 1978 to 1991. Since then, I have continued to practice in Illinois in my Wheaton office, advising commercial organizations, corporate executives and business owners on organizational structure, policies and procedures (corporations, general and limited partnerships, joint ventures, governance and ethics), transactions including acquisitions, sales, leasing and licensing of products and services, real estate, trademarks and copyrights, and information technology, marketing and advertising, and high income/high net worth individuals on tax, financial, estate and investment planning matters.

I have acted as special counsel to banks, financial and health service companies, securities and life and health insurance, real estate and investments, and deregulation of financial services industry (banking, securities, insurance). I was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce as member for five years of Connecticut District Export Committee, which originated the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award program. I advised the General Counsel of Senate Subcommittee for International Finance on development of Export Services Act and testified before Congress on this legislation that amended the Glass Steagall Act to permit bank holding companies for the first time to own a non-banking business. I was then also an advisor to Senate Small Business Committee and Small Business Administration on export trade and small business financing laws and regulation. As representative for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Committee and in collaboration with the American Banking Association, I worked with the Small Business Administration, Comptroller of Currency and Federal Reserve to develop supporting legislation.

My work with organizations includes National Director of Planned Gifts - Alzheimer's Association in Chicago, IL. I oversaw planned gifts development, estates administration, legal case management, marketing and communications, Founders Society and charitable gift annuity operations and services.

I was also Assistant General Counsel to Rotary International Association (RI), advising directors, trustees and senior management of this 501(C)(4) association which had approximately 32,000 member clubs and 1.2 million Rotarians worldwide. As acting general counsel for Rotary Foundation, I supported the Trustees on governance matters and formulation of foundation policies and procedures, and oversaw the legal affairs of its various divisions (Programs, Scholarships, Fund Development, Finance and Investments). I oversaw the legal affairs of RI Meetings and Conferences, Human Resources and MIS divisions, real estate and buildings management operations, intellectual property rights (trademarks, sponsor licensing transactions, and copyrights), and matters in litigation.

Previous to that, I was Vice President and Senior International Counsel at Pullman Inc., a Fortune 500 corporation. There, I directed marketing and sales operations for large, complex civil and energy engineering and construction projects worldwide. I established European, Eastern European, Middle East and Central and South American marketing and sales operations, negotiating large dollar contracts, new business ventures, acquisitions and mergers, foreign trade agreements and long-term commercial agreements and operating licenses with various national and quasi-governmental agencies.

My assistant's name is Sue.

(630) 447-0032

Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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I offer a wide variety of fixed-price fees for legal documents through my fully automated virtual law firm website, neiljboyer.com, which is open and available to clients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

For customized or in person services, our hourly fees range from $125 to $250 hour, depending upon the complexity of the legal subject matter.

We offer a free 30 minute initial consultation to individual clients, i.e., for estate planning and administration cases.

Clients accessing our document preparation services online must provide credit card information for billing purposes after they receive such services. Otherwise, we seldom ask for a retainer, unless required to do so in exceptional or unusual cases, such as those that are likely to require extensive research, writing, or external expenditures.