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Cheryl’s passion is teaching. She also is a natural leader. When she works with clients, she not only endeavors to solve their legal issues but also gives guidance to help their businesses succeed. That’s one of the reasons why she was selected as a Super Lawyer® and as a Leading Lawyer® for closely held companies.
Cheryl helps her clients establish business entities and negotiate, review, or set up new contracts as they start ventures and grow their business. She also helps clients buy or sell small businesses. Her clients include traditional brick and mortar companies, e-commerce providers, food businesses, and other ventures.
Complimenting her legal skills is her 20-year career as a marketing executive after she graduated first in her MBA class at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Cheryl has practical experience to understand the challenges facing businesses and their need to continually innovate without incurring excessive risks. In her marketing career, she was frustrated when lawyers said no but offered no alternative solution. Cheryl works with clients to enable them to reach their goals.
Cheryl served for three years as the chair of the ABA Business Law Section Cyberspace Law Committee and as co-chair of the Chicago Bar Association's Alliance for Women. She is a guest lecturer at The Hatchery Chicago and served for nine years as an adjunct professor of copyright law at Chicago-Kent College of Law.