Bruce L. Goldsmith Senior Counsel

Mr. Goldsmith spent ten years in various public service practices, lastly as a supervising attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. During that time he handled major federal litigation involving public housing tenants, migrant farm workers and immigrants. He handled a number of cases in federal court involving employment issues, housing conditions, OSHA violations, Fair Labor Standards Act issues, David-Bacon Act, and immigration law matters. He successfully argued the case of Silva v. Bell in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, a hemisphere wide class action case involving more than 300,000 class members seeking rights to visas. In 1981, Mr. Goldsmith joined his father's firm of Goldsmith, Thelin, Dickson, and Brown where he engaged in a broad ranged general practice. He concentrates his practice in the following areas:

Real Estate Acquisition, Sales and Development

• Extensive experience with annexation of large parcels; successful resolution of zoning/rezoning to residential, ORI, or commercial classifications for major developments
• Sale and acquisition of vacant land and residential/commercial land investment projects

General Corporate Representation

• As a business counselor to closely held family businesses, assistance in business formation, growth planning and general business advice
• Instrumental in a number of succession planning initiatives, including integrating estate plans with succession plans and the establishment of real estate partnerships for business real estate ventures

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Employment Law

• Defense of numerous individual charges at EEOC and Illinois Department of Human Rights regarding Age and Sex Discrimination and ADA issues
• Counseling business clients on employment terminations
• Covenants not to compete; drafting and enforcement

Financial Law

• Industrial revenue bond financing for corporate clients and a not-for-profit blood center
• Revenue bond financing for Aurora Civic Center Authority ($11.5 million parking garage)
• Credit facilities for variety of corporate clients
• Bank counsel and credit facilities for banking clients

Litigation Law

• Commercial Litigation
• Suits against municipalities to enforce business and zoning rights
• Defense of condemnation actions
• Shareholder and related commercial litigation
• Probate issues
• Municipal and not for profit corporations.

Other Representations

• General Counsel to Aurora Civic Center Authority