Rita W. Garry and Firm Join SmithAmundsen LLC

CHICAGO, June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rita W. Garry and members of The Garry Law Firm PC of Crystal Lake, Ill. announced today that they will join SmithAmundsen LLC, a firm of 140 attorneys, headquartered in Chicago with offices located throughout the Midwest.  This move joins two law firms with established reputations for excellence, allowing both to enhance the resources and talent they draw from to effectively serve clients.  

"The pace of the business world is accelerating, and business clients demand consistent quality legal advice in a wider variety of practice areas," said Rita Garry in a statement. "This move allows us to seize an opportunity to expand our client services, even in a challenging business climate."

The Garry Law Firm PC, founded in 1995, is a boutique law firm with a dynamic business law practice assisting emerging and middle market businesses navigating business entity design decisions, a wide array of commercial and operational contract matters, intellectual property protection, and business sales, acquisitions, mergers, and other restructuring transactions.  Founder, Rita W. Garry has more than 25 years of business law experience and will move to SmithAmundsen's Chicago office to enhance the firm's Corporate Transactional and Enterprise practice.  Associate Amy M. Miller, an active member in the McHenry County business community, will continue her corporate, transactional, and enterprise business practice from SmithAmundsen's Woodstock, Ill. office.

SmithAmundsen's Corporate Transactional and Enterprise team serves large, mid-size, and emerging business and enterprise clients in diverse industries including manufacturing, professional services, commercial transportation, national and international distribution, retail, technology, health care, construction, entertainment, banking, non-profit organizations, and commercial real estate.

"The addition of Rita and Amy to our Corporate Transactional and Enterprise team allows us to grow our corporate and transactional practice areas and increases their clients' access to complementary areas of the law such as commercial, environmental and insurance litigation, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, labor and employment law, and entertainment law," said Larry Schechtman, SmithAmundsen's Managing Partner. "We are excited that the firm continues to grow and anticipate that Rita and Amy will be valued business advisers for our clients."

About SmithAmundsen LLC:  SmithAmundsen LLC is a rapidly expanding law firm comprised of 140 attorneys practicing from offices in Chicago, St. Charles, Rockford and Woodstock, Ill.; Milwaukee, WI; and St. Louis, MO.  The firm represents business entities and individuals engaged in most all commercial endeavors.  Major practice concentrations include commercial litigation, labor and employment, banking and financial services, construction, insurance services, commercial transportation, health care and medical devices, products liability/manufacturing and corporate transaction and enterprise services.  Click here to visit SmithAmundsen's media room.  

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