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Bruce Goldsmith

 
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Company Name : Dykema Gossett PLLC
 
Company Website : www.dykema.com
 
Company Address : 2723 S State St.
Ste. 400, Ann Arbor, MI,
United States,
 
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Bruce Goldsmith Biography :

Mr. Goldsmith concentrates his practice in real estate development and land use planning; acquisition of large real estate investments; building construction issues; counseling of closely held family businesses, including business acquisitions, succession planning, and employment issues. In addition, he has handled a variety of litigation matters, including commercial litigation. Mr. Goldsmith has represented family businesses with sales from several million dollars to over one hundred million dollars.

He joined the Chicago office as a partner in June 1998.

Experience

Mr. Goldsmith spent ten years in various public service practices, lastly as a supervising attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. During that time he handled major federal litigation involving public housing tenants, migrant farm workers and immigrants. He handled a number of cases in federal court involving employment issues, housing conditions, OSHA violations, Fair Labor Standards Act issues, David-Bacon Act, and immigration law matters. He successfully argued the case of Silva v. Levi in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, a hemisphere wide class action case involving more than 300,000 class members seeking rights to visas. In 1981, Mr. Goldsmith joined his father's firm of Goldsmith, Thelin, Dickson, and Brown where he engaged in a broad ranged general practice. He concentrates his practice in the following areas:

Real Estate Acquisition, Sales and Development

Extensive experience with annexation of large parcels; successful resolution of zoning/rezoning to residential, ORI, or commercial classifications for major developments

Sale and acquisition of vacant land and residential/commercial land investment projects

General Corporate Representation

As a business counselor to closely held family businesses, assistance in business formation, growth planning and general business advice.

Instrumental in a number of succession planning initiatives, including integrating estate plans with succession plans and the establishment of real estate partnerships for business real estate ventures.

Employment Law

Defense of numerous individual charges at EEOC and Illinois Department of Human Rights regarding Age and Sex Discrimination and ADA issues

Counseling business clients on employment terminations

Covenants not to compete; drafting and enforcement

Financial Law

Industrial revenue bond financing for corporate clients and a not-for-profit blood center.

Revenue bond financing for Aurora Civic Center Authority ($11.5 million parking garage)

Credit facilities for variety of corporate clients

Bank counsel and credit facilities for banking clients

Litigation Law

Suits against municipalities to enforce business and zoning rights

Defense of condemnation actions

Shareholder and related commercial litigation

Probate issues

Municipal and not for profit corporations.

Other Representations

General Counsel to Aurora Civic Center Authority

Professional Associations

Illinois State Bar Association

Kane County Association (General Counsel)

American Bar Association

Civic and Cultural Involvements

Past Mercy Center Hospital Advisory Committee

Mental Health and Mental Retardation Inc. (Past Board Member)

Foundation for the West Aurora Schools (Founder and Past Board Member)

Aurora Foundation (Past Board Member)

Temple B'nai Israel (Board Member and Officer)

United Way Professional Campaign Leader (Attorney's Division)

Awards

Named 2007 Super Lawyer by Law & Politics and Chicago Magazine in Land Use/Zoning category

1978 Man of the Year - Latin American Bar Association Illinois Migrant Council

1977 State of Illinois Merit Award.

 
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