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Contact Roger<\/h4>\n

Phone: 217-544-3403
Fax: 217-544-1593
Email: rrutherford@feldmanwasser.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Areas of Practice<\/h3>\n

Estate Planning
Estate Administration
Real Estate
Business Organizations
Local Government<\/p>\n

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Roger L. Rutherford has practiced law for more than 40 years serving individuals, small businesses and local governmental entities. Rutherford enjoys helping clients whenever they need to solve problems or achieve goals. Whether drafting a difficult will for blended families or negotiating a loan for a small municipality, he takes pride in interacting with clients and recommending effective solutions.<\/p>\n

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Rutherford concentrates in estate and business planning, probate, business organization and local government law. Before joining FeldmanWasser, he spent his entire career in private practice representing families, small businesses and boards of directors in all types of settings. He has broad experience in all facets of business law and served as a business law instructor at Lincoln Land Community College.<\/p>\n

He is a strong advocate of complete estate planning that includes a living will, power of attorney for health care, durable or financial power of attorney, and either a traditional will or a pour-over will with a companion revocable living trust. He firmly believes in the maxim that the average person will spend 85,000 hours working hard during a lifetime and building an estate but less than 10 hours doing any estate and financial planning to preserve and enhance their wealth and to provide for the distribution of their estate to their spouse, children, charities of their choice and other intended beneficiaries. With proper planning, he has helped many families feel secure about their future.<\/p>\n

Trusts are an integral part of estate planning, and Rutherford believes properly drafted trusts are an important tool when providing for a disabled child, an elderly parent, a favorite charity or a financially challenged child or grandchild.<\/p>\n

Rutherford has been active in the Illinois State Bar Association, having served as past statewide chair of the ISBA Law Office Economics Section Council and as past chair of the ISBA Committee on Legal Technology.<\/p>\n

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Bar Admissions<\/h3>\n