ABOUT

Patricia Tauchert practices in the fields of estate planning, business transactions - including buying and selling businesses - private business investment, agreements with customers and vendors, shareholder agreements, operating agreements, business counsel, employment law, complex commercial real estate, and lending arrangements.

 

Pat Tauchert is a 1979 graduate of Northwestern University School of Law. She has extensive experience representing service, tech, and retail businesses and manufacturers, as well as churches and other not-for-profit organizations. She has served as in-house counsel to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Sears, and Square D/Schneider Electric and worked as an income partner with Pluymert, Macdonald & Lee. Pat has successfully negotiated multi-million dollar deals in the US, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. She has handled transactions covering such diverse matters as sales of businesses; structure and organization of businesses; construction; purchase of capital equipment and inventory; sales of goods and services; commercial real estate sales and leasing; copyright and trademark licensing; dispute resolution; financing arrangements and loan workouts; and employment issues. Pat Tauchert is experienced in government contract compliance requirements, including diversity, Buy America, ethics and pricing regulations, certification for women and minority-owned businesses, and IRS compliance issues for not-for-profit organizations. Pat handles diverse issues for our for-profit and not-for-profit business clients.

 

Pat handles estate planning matters for individuals and couples seeking to ensure their property is managed in accordance with their wishes.

 

Pat Tauchert is a published author and has testified in front of State legislative committees on pending legislation and regulations on the sale of goods. She is a past chair of the Religious Organizations Subcommittee of the American Bar Association and contributing editor and author of the American Bar Association publication, Guide to Representing Religious Organizations, published in March 2009, as well as articles on the impact of proposed changes to Article 2 of the

Uniform Commercial Code published by the American Bar Association and the Southern Methodist University Law Review. Pat served for ten years as an adjunct professor at Judson University, most frequently teaching Business Law.