Firm News

Gould & Ratner is pleased to announce that Chris E. McCall has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate Practice.

Gould & Ratner was a proud sponsor of the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) Business Leadership Award Celebration on May 2. Its mission is to develop business ties between Chicago and Israel. AICC is the only non profit non governmental organization with this exclusive goal.

Gould & Ratner is pleased to announce that Robert J. Taylor has joined the firm as a partner in its Real Estate Practice.

Rich Reizen, Pat Johnson and Hannah Batsche represented the Gould & Ratner Construction Practice at the ABA Forum on Construction in Vancouver on April 12-14. The program focused on key trends in construction law including a retrospective and “look ahead” on transformative events in construction law, construction contracting – a look into the future, emerging trends in arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, the implications of big data on construction claims, trends in construction insurance and bonding, the future of P3’s, trends in employment and workforce issues impacting the construction industry.

Gould & Ratner Managing Partner Jessica Lingertat and Real Estate Practice Chair Joe Marzo have been selected as finalists by the Illinois Real Estate Journal for its 2023 Illinois Real Estate Journal Awards. Lingertat has been nominated for the Woman of the Year Award, and Joe is a finalist for the Real Estate Lawyer of the Year award.

Dan Crowley, a partner in Gould & Ratner’s Real Estate Practice, recently participated in a Q&A session with ULI Chicago. The conversation was part of ULI Chicago’s Residential Conversions Initiative, which helps communities tackle the challenges associated with converting commercial spaces to residential ones. The discussion was a follow-up to ULI’s presentation “Converting Commercial Space to Residential.” View the full presentation, and watch the deeper-dive Q&A session.