Robert O. Kuehn is the senior partner at the law firm of Williston, McGibbon & Kuehn, with offices in Barrington, Illinois. Mr. Kuehn has practiced law in the Chicago area since receiving his J.D. from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law in 1969. He received a B.A. degree from North Park College in 1966.
Mr. Kuehn concentrates his practice in all phases of trust and estate work, with a special interest in advanced estate planning techniques, estate planning for business executives and family business owners. He has counseled professional fiduciaries in the administration of estates and trusts as well as business owners and charitable organizations. He prepares Federal Estate Tax returns involving a variety of tax issues including valuation discounts. In addition, Mr. Kuehn has an active commercial and residential real estate practice.
Mr. Kuehn current serves as the general counsel for Shriners International and Shriners Hospitals for Children. As the chairman of the Board of Governor’s for Chicago’s Shriners Hospitals for Children (2006-2009), Mr. Kuehn played a vital role in the operations of a hospital with an annual budget in excess of 40 million dollars. He and his wife live in Chicago’s northwestern suburbs and are very active with their three children’s families, including eight grandchildren.
William R. Kuehn is a partner in the law firm of Williston, McGibbon & Kuehn, a Northwest suburban law firm with offices in Barrington, Illinois. Mr. Kuehn focuses his practice in the areas of estate planning, estate and trust administration, estate and trust litigation, business planning and residential and commercial real estate. He received his L.L.M. with honors from the John Marshall Law School in 2004, his certificate in estate planning from the John Marshall School in 2004, his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1995, and his B.A. in History from Dartmouth College in 1992.
Mr. Kuehn counsels clients with their estates and businesses. He drafts wills, trusts, powers of attorney, operating agreements, buy-sell agreements, partnership agreements, and other estate and business planning documents. He prepares state and federal gift and estate tax returns and fiduciary income tax returns. He represents individual and corporate fiduciaries. He negotiates and drafts real estate contracts for the sale of commercial and residential real estate and §1031 exchanges. Mr. Kuehn litigates in Probate and Chancery Divisions of the Circuit Court. He has planned and assisted in the administration of estates involving assets valued in excess of 25 million dollars and has successfully handled will and trust construction cases, contests of trust agreements, estate and gift tax matters, and other types of estate and trust cases.
Mr. Kuehn is the co-chairman of the Northwest Suburban Bar Association Estate Planning Committee. He is a board member and second vice president of the Northwest Suburban Estate Planning Council. He was formerly an associate member of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Trust and Estate Section Council.
Mr. Kuehn is the current vice chairman and chairman elect of the Board of Governors for the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Chicago. He resides with his wife and three young children in the northwestern suburbs.