Lavelle Law Adds Practice Area in Election Law

With 2019 and 2020 bringing a series of municipal, state and national elections, Lavelle Law has tapped into their in-house resources to launch a new Election Law practice group.

"Today's hyper-focused campaigns have led to an extraordinary amount of legal issues surrounding the election cycle," said Lavelle Law Managing Partner Ted McGinn. "From challenges to nominating petitions to ballot recounts, the entire process now has steps requiring experienced legal guidance."

Leading the new group at Lavelle Law will be attorney Joseph Vito. Vito is well-informed in election laws as he is an elected official in the Village of Wheeling. In recent months Vito successfully represented candidates in other municipalities who were facing challenges to their nominating petitions.

"The petition challenges are just one small sample of obstacles candidates may face in any election," Vito said. "We will take a proactive approach in working with candidates on everything from getting on the ballot to campaign disclosures and compliance issues, and dealing with PACs and finance campaign laws."

McGinn feels that the campaign law experience Vito offers along with the tax and litigation skills of other attorneys at Lavelle Law will make for a robust practice group. "It now requires a significant personal and financial commitment to run for public office. It will be our goal to keep candidates at any level of government on the ballot, in compliance and protect them through the ballot counting process."

For more information on the new practice group, contact Joe Vito at 847-705-7555 or jvito@lavellelaw.com and visit https://www.lavellelaw.com/election-law.

Lavelle Law's main office is in Schaumburg and maintains an additional office in the Chicago Loop. The firm was founded in 1989 as a single attorney practice with an emphasis on tax law. The firm has added more than a dozen practice groups including Estate Planning, Business Law, Banking Law, Litigation, Criminal, Immigration, Divorce and Family Law, Commercial and Residential Real Estate and Law Practice Consulting. The firm has received numerous awards and commendations for their business success, their commitment to ethics, national recognition for their pro bono services, and multiple acknowledgements of the charitable work they do in the local communities. For more information, visit www.lavellelaw.com or follow Lavelle Law on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.