Background
Hopkins, David H. was born on March 19, 1944 in Farragut, Idaho, United States.
Hopkins, David H. was born on March 19, 1944 in Farragut, Idaho, United States.
Duke University (Bachelor of Arts, 1966). Columbia University (Juris Doctor, 1969).
Worked at Schiller, Du Canto and Fleck (Chicago, Illinois) specializing in Family Law, including all phases of Matrimonial Litigation, Financial Discovery and Analysis, Tax Considerations and Retirement Benefits, Negotiation and Mediation, Custody and Visitation and Appeals. Admitted to the bar, 1969, Illinois. 1971, United States. Tax Court.
Author: Chapter in Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education Family Law Handbook (1992, plus 1993 and 1995 Supplements, Chapter entitled Tax Aspects of Dissolution of Marriage.
Paper entitled, Tax Planning Under Section 71, presented at the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Seminar, 1994. Paper entitled, Divorce Taxation: Planning Possibilities and Pitfalls, presented at the Sixteenth Annual Notre Dame Tax and Estate planning Institute, 1990.
Paper entitled, The New Look in Marital Settlements, presented at the Fourth Annual Tax Institute, University of North Carolina, 1985. And Paper entitled, tax Planning and the Proposed Domestic Relations Tax Reform Acting, presented at the University of Virginia Tax Law Conference, 1984.
Member, Study Committee on Mediation of Child Custody, Support, and Visitation Disputes, 1990-1992 (relative to drafting Supreme Court Rules in family law mediation area).
Member, Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Council, 1994. Member: Chicago (Chairman, Domestic Relations Subcommittee, College of Business Administration Circuit Court Liaison Committee, 1993. Member, College of Business Administration Board of Managers, 1992-1994.
Chairman, College of Business Administration Matrimonial Law Committee"s Delay Reduction Subcommittee, 1990-1993.
Chairman, Matrimonial Law Committee, 1988-1989. Member, Matrimonial Law Committee since 1978, as well as Chairman, Taxation Subcommittee, 1979-1984.
Member, College of Business Administration Nominating Committee, 1989, Illinois State (Chairman, Family Law Section Council, 1989-1990. Member of Council, 1985-1991.
Secretary of Council, 1987-1988.
Vice Chairman of Council, 1988-1989. Chairman, Joint ISBA/College of Business Administration Task Force on Illinois Domestic Violence Acting, 1986-1992. Author, Chapter in ISBA Family Law Handbook, 1995, entitled "Matrimonial Practice and the Illinois Domestic Violence Acting".
And recipient of 1992 ISBA Board of Governors" Award) and American (Chairman, American Bar Association Domestic Relations Tax Simplification Task Force, 1980-1984, which drafted the reform proposals culminating in the 1984 and 1986 Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code in the divorce tax area, including the domestic relations provisions of the Retirement Equity Acting.
Section of Taxation: Vice Chairman, 1980-1982, and Chairman, 1982-1984, Domestic Relations Tax Problems Committee, as well as member of foregoing committee, 1978. Member, Technical Review Committee, 1984-1986.
Chairman, Subcommittee on Drafting Final Section 71 Regulations, 1992. Section of Family Law: Chairman, Taxation Committee, 1993) Bar Associations.
Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
Schiller, Du Canto and Fleck is the largest law firm in the country to devote its practice exclusively to matrimonial law. The firm was founded in 1981 by Chicago attorneys Donald C. Schiller and Joseph North. Du Canto. Charles J. Fleck, former presiding judge of the Cook County Domestic Relations Division, joined in 1982.
Firm members are nationally recognized experts in all aspects of matrimonial law, and many are current and past leaders of local, state and national bar associations.
Member, Study Committee on Mediation of Child Custody, Support, and Visitation Disputes, 1990-1992 (relative to drafting Supreme Court Rules in family law mediation area). Member, Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Council, 1994. Member: Chicago (Chairman, Domestic Relations Subcommittee, College of Business Administration Circuit Court Liaison Committee, 1993.
Member, College of Business Administration Board of Managers, 1992-1994.
Chairman, College of Business Administration Matrimonial Law Committee"s Delay Reduction Subcommittee, 1990-1993. Chairman, Matrimonial Law Committee, 1988-1989.
Member, Matrimonial Law Committee since 1978, as well as Chairman, Taxation Subcommittee, 1979-1984. Member, College of Business Administration Nominating Committee, 1989, Illinois State (Chairman, Family Law Section Council, 1989-1990.
Member of Council, 1985-1991.
Secretary of Council, 1987-1988. Vice Chairman of Council, 1988-1989. Chairman, Joint ISBA/College of Business Administration Task Force on Illinois Domestic Violence Acting, 1986-1992.
Author, Chapter in ISBA Family Law Handbook, 1995, entitled "Matrimonial Practice and the Illinois Domestic Violence Acting".
And recipient of 1992 ISBA Board of Governors" Award) and American (Chairman, American Bar Association Domestic Relations Tax Simplification Task Force, 1980-1984, which drafted the reform proposals culminating in the 1984 and 1986 Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code in the divorce tax area, including the domestic relations provisions of the Retirement Equity Acting. Section of Taxation: Vice Chairman, 1980-1982, and Chairman, 1982-1984, Domestic Relations Tax Problems Committee, as well as member of foregoing committee, 1978.
Member, Technical Review Committee, 1984-1986. Chairman, Subcommittee on Drafting Final Section 71 Regulations, 1992.
Section of Family Law: Chairman, Taxation Committee, 1993) Bar Associations.
Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.