Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Sandra K. Newman and Lucy K. Park have joined the firm’s Chicago office as part of Chicago’s newly-launched Personal Planning group. They were most recently partners at K & L Gates. The arrival of Newman and Park follows closely on the recent addition of Domingo Such, who joined Perkins Coie in late May. The three partners are spearheading Chicago’s Personal Planning practice. With the most recent hires, the firm has added 6 new partners and 11 attorneys overall to its Chicago office since January.
“With Sandra and Lucy joining Domingo in our new Personal Planning group, we have one of the most talented and experienced trust and estates teams of any firm in Chicago,” said Chris Wilson, Office Managing Partner of Perkins Coie’s Chicago office. “Many of our corporate, high–net worth and family office clients need the kind of advice our Personal Planning group can provide, and now with three partners in Chicago we have expanded our national platform to service those needs.”
Jan Cunningham, Chair of Perkins Coie’s national Personal Planning group, said, “With these new partners we are able to combine what we have learned about best practices from three separate national firms into one office and offer a fresh new alternative for estate planning services in Chicago.”
Newman concentrates her practice in wealth preservation, tax planning, trust administration, business succession planning and charitable giving. She assists high net worth family office clients in creating pooled investment LLCs; advises clients on planning for special purpose assets, such as vacation homes, aircraft, yachts, patents and artwork; designs succession plans for business owners throughout the United States; represents individual and corporate trustees in administering complex trusts and estates; represents beneficiaries and fiduciaries in complex litigation; and counsels clients in premarital planning, planning incident to divorce and specialized planning for nontraditional families.
Newman received her J.D., cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law and a B.A., cum laude, from Truman State University. Worth magazine previously selected Newman as one of the nation’s top 100 estate planning attorneys, and she is recognized as an Illinois Super Lawyer and Illinois Leading Lawyer. She serves on the Chicago Bar Association’s Trust Law Committee, the Chicago Estate Planning Council, the Goodman Theatre Planned Giving Council and the Chicago Community Trust Professional Advisory Committee.
Park focuses her practice on trust and estate planning and administration. She counsels high net worth individuals, families and family-owned businesses in connection with wealth preservation, wealth transfer, charitable giving, and multi-generational and succession planning. Park also advises fiduciaries and beneficiaries with the administration of decedents’ estates and post-mortem planning.
Park received her J.D., with high honors, Order of the Coif, from Chicago-Kent College of Law. She holds an M.A. in Psychology and Human Development from University of Chicago and a B.A. in Psychology from Smith College. In addition to her law practice, Park serves as an adjunct professor in Chicago-Kent College of Law’s graduate program in Taxation. She also serves on the boards of the Center for Disability and Elder Law, the Hanul Family Alliance, the Smith College Alumnae of Chicago and on the Goodman Theatre’s Spotlight Society Advisory Council.
