Background
Kay Spreyer, Abigail was born on October 14, 1945 in Hollister, California, United States.
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Abigail Kay Spreyer
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Mount Holyoke College (Bachelor of Arts, 1967). Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of Law (Juris Doctor, with high honors, 1975).
Career
Worked at Torshen, Spreyer & Garmisa, Limited. (Chicago, Illinois) specializing in Trial and Appellate Practice in State and Federal Courts. Corporate, Real Estate, Probate and Insurance.
Admitted to the bar, 1975, Illinois and United States.
District Court, Northern District of Illinois. 1976, United States. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
1981, United States. Supreme Court. Notes and Comments Editor, Chicago-Kent Law Review, 1975.
Author: "First Amendment Retrospective: Free Speech and Defamation Law," Seventh Circuit Review, 51 Chicago-Kent Law Review 612, 1974.
Company-Author: "Motion Practice on Appeal," Illinois Civil Appeals, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1989. "Subject Matter Jurisdiction of District Courts," Federal Civil Practice, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1981 and 1986 (Supp.). "Post-Trial Motions," Illinois Civil Practice, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1997.
Law Clerk to the Honorary Glenn K. Seidenfeld, Justice of Illinois Appellate Court, 1975-1977.
Instructor, Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of Law, Legal Writing, 1976-1978. Member: Chicago (Member, Condominium Subcommittee of Real Property Law Committee, 1994) Illinois State and American Bar Associations.
Women"s Bar Association of Illinois. Appellate Lawyers Association (Member: Downstate Committee, 1987-1988.
Nominating Committee, 1989).
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. American Judicature Society. The firm concentrates its practice in high quality, high profile civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
Members of the firm appear before state and federal trial and appellate courts, administrative agencies, and alternative dispute resolution tribunals in Illinois and other States in matters involving business torts, contracts, real estate, insurance, partnerships, securities and commodities, fraud, RICO, construction, corporations, banking, antitrust, malpractice and other business-related litigation including class actions.
The firm and its individual members have been involved in over 300 reported decisions of the United States. Supreme Court, various Circuit Courts of Appeals, United States.
District Courts and the Illinois Supreme and Appellate Courts. Representative of the firm"s diverse clientele are businesses engaged in a wide variety of endeavors ranging from computer equipment leasing to scrap metal processing to soil testing, condominium and cooperative associations, insurance companies and agencies, long term care facilities, financial institutions, real estate developers, law firms, schools, political parties, governmental bodies, and religious organizations, as well as individuals involved in disputes arising from their official, professional or business pursuits.
The firm also provides services in the areas of business and real estate transactions, probate, and corporate formation and is general, as well as litigation, counsel to a number of its clients.
In all matters, close communication between lawyer and client is stressed.
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Membership
Member: Chicago (Member, Condominium Subcommittee of Real Property Law Committee, 1994) Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Women"s Bar Association of Illinois. Appellate Lawyers Association (Member: Downstate Committee, 1987-1988.
Nominating Committee, 1989).
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. American Judicature Society.
