Himes, Petrarca & Fester, Chtd

Himes, Petrarca & Fester was established over 70 years ago.The firm provides legal counsel and advice in multiple areas that include School Law, Litigation, Labor Relations & Collective Bargaining, Students? Rights & Special Education, Employment Discrimination, Student Records, Employee Discipline, Finance & Elections, Construction Law, Boundary Disputes & Proceedings, Annexation & Detachment and Municipal Law.
Our Commitment
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As your legal counsel, we help you examine every available option so that you can be fully informed decision makers. When you select Himes, Petrarca & Fester as your legal counsel, you are assured of a high level of services, attention and advice.

We serve you in the same way we would like to be represented.

We make it a priority to promptly answer your inquiries and to respond to urgent matters in such a way that you are assured of our commitment to serving your legal needs. Our clients also receive timely updates on key issues and changes in the law, plus the opportunity to attend complimentary seminars.
Our Philosophy
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Our Firm recognizes that school districts have very specialized needs. Therefore, all of our attorneys make a consistent effort to keep abreast of both the educational and legal issues facing our school district clients.

Our attorneys regularly present before school board associations, school administrators, teacher organizations and related professional groups, including the National Organization on Legal Problems in Education, the American Association of School Administrators, the National School Desegregation Committee, the National School Boards Association (?NSBA?), the Association of School Business Officials, the National Council of School Attorneys (?COSA?), the North American Association of Educational Negotiators, and the American Education Research Association-Special Interest Group on School Law.

We regularly present in Illinois to the Illinois Association of School Boards, the Illinois Association of School Administrators, the Illinois Association of School Business Officials, the Illinois Council of School Attorneys, the Illinois State Bar Association and the Illinois Institute on Continuing Legal Education and in New Mexico to the New Mexico School Boards Association and the New Mexico School Personnel Association.

Members of the Firm also participate as speakers at continuing legal education (?CLE?) seminars for practicing school attorneys. Additionally, several members of our Firm teach graduate level courses in educational law and conduct seminars on school law. Various members of the Firm have authored publications on education and school law issues, including chapters for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the ?Law Ed? presentations of the Illinois State Bar Association on School Law and other prominent legal publications.

Locations	No. of Attorneys
Chicago,	11