Arnold Goldstein

When experience counts, count on me. My career as a young attorney began in commercial litigation and quickly grew into Corporate & Business Litigation; with a very strong accounting and tax background I began to do more business and corporate law, estate and trust planning and the garden variety practice from bankruptcy to taking a small company public to heading a group in the successful purchase of a bank, and so on for the first 20 years of my practice. When someone asked me to handle my first divorce, I approached it as a business dissolution: logical and with a desire that everyone walk away with something reasonable. My experience as a litigator, my time spent representing business, creating trust, and having an accounting background, turned out to be the exact ingredients of a good divorce attorney. I could see each side of the case so I was able to anticipate the problems before they became overwhelming.

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  I think that it is important that both the client and the attorney feel comfortable before we can have a good working relationship. There are too many times during family law matters when I need to understand my client to make a immediate response or direct a conversation to benefit my client. Spending the initial time getting to know the personality (and the client's getting to know the attorney's personality) is the only way to begin a successful "lawyer-client" relation. It usually takes 15 to 30 minutes to reach a point where each of us can judge whether we are going to be able to work together successfully.
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Illinois

Supreme Court of Illinois

ID Number: 0998052

Since 1963

Owner

Goldstein Law Offices

1963 - Current

Illinois Institute of Technology

Tax Law

1985 - 1990

completed all courses but did not write dissertation for LLM, just enjoyed being a student

University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

Certified Public Accountant (CPA) (1969)

1963 - 1963

Northwestern University School of Law

J.D. (1963) | Law School

1960 - 1961

University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

B.A. (1960) | Economics & Political Science

1956 - 1960

Roosevelt University

M.B.A.

Honors: Highest Honors

Lake County Bar Association

Member

2000 - Current

Activities: member Lake County Bar Association Family Law Committee

Illinois State Bar

Member

1963 - Current

Activities: family law committee; civil practice committee;

Chicago Bar Association

Member

1963 - Current