Randolph M. Perkins

Partner

Randolph M. Perkins concentrates his practice in serving as strategic legal counsel to commercial clientele.

This role typically requires him to rapidly develop an extensive knowledge of the client's business, both in terms of its general industry and its individual operations, policies, and goals. On this basis, often directly assisting in-house general counsel, he helps clients meet various legal needs in a coordinated, cost-efficient fashion and implements legal action, whether transactional litigation or day-to-day procedures, in a practical, commercially realistic manner than is consistent with the client's business needs.

Mr. Perkins most frequently assists clients by supervising and participating in handling:

• Domestic and international corporate and commercial transactions
• Real estate matters
• Business dispute resolution
• General business counseling
• International business restructuring and licensing matters
  

Publications

"Beware of 'Lite' Indemnification," Commercial Leasing Law & Strategy Newsletter (September 2007)

"Information Security Breaches — Privacy Laws and Procedures, Part Two," (Co-Author) Commercial Leasing Law & Strategy Newsletter (June 2007)

"Information Security Breaches — Privacy Laws and Procedures, Part One," (Co-Author) Commercial Leasing Law & Strategy Newsletter (June 2007)

"Beware of Phishing — How Landlords and Tenants Can Avoid the Hook!" Commercial Leasing Law & Strategy Newsletter (December 2005)

"Complying with the New Fax Rule Under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act," Commercial Leasing Law & Strategy Newsletter (October 2003)

"Using a Parallel Business and Limiting Exposure to Transferee Liability," IRS Practice Alert (October 1989)

"The Concurrent Sentence Doctrine: Sound Judicial Procedure or Illegitimate Shortcut?" University of Illinois Law Review 723 (1981)

Awards and Honors

AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell

Education

Clerkships

Honorable Robert C. Underwood, Illinois Supreme Court (1982-1983)

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association
Illinois State Bar Association
State Bar of Wisconsin
American Law Journal's Commercial Leasing Law & Strategy Newsletter
          Board of Editors

Civic and Charitable Memberships

Lake Forest Symphony
          Board of Directors
Special Education District of Lake County (SEDOL) Foundation
          Board of Directors
Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Historical Society
Deerpath Art League
Friends of the Lake Forest Library