David A. Handler,Esq.

David A. Handler,  Northwestern University School of Law,   B.S. Degree in Finance with highest honors from the University of Illinois College of Commerce; fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC); member of the professional advisory committees of several non-profit organizations, including the Chicago Community Trust, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Goodman Theatre, WTTW11/98.7WFMT (Chicago public broadcasting stations) and the American Society for Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; among a handful of trusts & estates attorneys listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and was identified as one of the top 100 lawyers in Illinois in the 2006 list of “Illinois Super Lawyers"; a member of the Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Advisory Board, and an Editorial Advisory Board Member of Trusts & Estates Magazine for which he currently writes the monthly “tax update” column; co-author of a two-volume book on estate planning, Drafting the Estate Plan: Law and Forms (CCH); authored many articles that have appeared in prominent estate planning and taxation journals, magazines and newsletters, including Lawyer’s Weekly, Trusts & Estates Magazine, Estate Planning Magazine, Journal of Taxation, Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal, The Chase Journal and RIA’s Estate Planner’s Alert.  He is regularly interviewed for trade and news periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Lawyer’s Weekly, Registered Representative, Financial Advisor, Worth and Bloomberg Wealth Manager magazines. Mr. Handler is a partner in the Trusts and Estates Practice Group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL and concentrates his practice on trust and estate planning and administration, representing owners of closely-held businesses, principals of private equity/venture capital/LBO funds, executives and families of significant wealth, and establishing and administering private foundations, public charities and other tax-exempt entities.