Illinois business and entertainment contracts lawyer

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Personal Attention. Experience. Passion.

Contracts Esquire

Contracts Esquire provides legal services to Illinois individuals and businesses. Drawing upon significant transactional experience, its attorney can help you and your business achieve your goals by identifying issues, proposing solutions, and advising on and proposing ways to mitigate risk.

 

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Attorney

April B. Gutting

April focuses her practice on advising and counseling business and entertainment clients. She has significant experience with contracts, gained through representing a large corporation, a non-profit and individuals.

April represented a Fortune 200 company and has ten years of experience with transactional and contracts law, including counseling several groups within the company—supply management, real estate, sales, marketing, engineering, corporate communications, and business development. In this role, in which she reviewed, negotiated and drafted agreements and provided legal advice on a variety of topics, she found her passion. April was recognized for her services by one of the company’s divisional presidents.

In other notable accolades, April represented an author publishing her first book and received film credits in a documentary for which she provided legal advice to a non-profit and drafted and negotiated several contracts.

 

Education

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW
J.D., 2006

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
B.A., 1998

Activities & Affiliations

• Chicago Bar Association, Member
• Lawyers for the Creative Arts (Chicago), Volunteer

Bar Admissions

• Illinois

 
 

 
 
 

executive assistant

Jasmine J. Montgomery

Jasmine focuses her time on several tasks and projects, including website maintenance, marketing, scheduling meetings, making travel arrangements, planning and organizing law firm events and acting as a liaison between the attorney and client.

 

Education

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA - TIPPIE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
B.B.A, Marketing, 2018