Experience Driven. Forward Thinking.

Case Hoogendoorn has represented individuals, families, business owners and charitable organizations since 1969. His early career was spent as an associate and partner with Kirkland& Ellis LLP. In 1985, Case and Earl Talbot founded their own firm so they could forge close bonds with clients, serve families, dispense solid legal advice, and support charitable organizations. The firm has flourished for over thirty years based upon the founders’ ideal – to create and foster a firm where integrity and hard work are honored and valued.

His practice concentrates on complex family problems, trust and estate disputes, tax planning for intra-family transactions and charitable tax planning. Case works with clients to implement sophisticated planning strategies, including the use of gift trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, special title holding trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts, generation-skipping trusts, and dynasty trusts. He is frequently consulted on business succession planning for family businesses and professional corporations.

Case is recognized for his civic and charitable commitments across metro Chicago as he serves on numerous not-for-profit boards. He assists clients in maximizing the tax benefits of charitable giving, both during life and after death, through charitable remainder uni and annuity trusts, charitable lead trusts, charitable gift annuities and family foundations. He serves as General Counsel to the Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation and Barnabas Foundation, the latter a community foundation serving national church communities in the Reformed tradition. He also serves on Professional Advisory Boards with Chicago Community Trust and Lurie Children’s Hospital Foundation, is a member of the Chicago Estate Planning Council and local and national bar associations and is regularly named as an Illinois Super Lawyer. Case is a Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel.