Richard B. Fitzgerald Profile

Richard B. Fitzgerald

Of Counsel
O'Keefe & Carr, P.C.
Phone:  847-441-0300     
Fax:  312-263-6245
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Biography:  Richard B. Fitzgerald is a North Shore Evanston Attorney who joined O’Keefe & Carr, P.C. as an Of Counsel attorney in December 2008.  He works primarily in the firm’s Evanston Office.  Prior to joining O’Keefe & Carr, P.C., he had exclusively practiced law as Fitzgerald and Lytton in Evanston, Illinois.  Since 1960, Mr. Fitzgerald has practiced law in Evanston, Illinois and concentrated his practice in the areas of estate planning, probate, and trusts and estates.  He also has extensive experience in real estate and small business matters.  He is an occasional writer, lecturer and speaker on probate and estate subjects.  A long time resident of the North Shore, he grew up in Chicago and graduated from Loyola Academy.

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, probate, trusts and estates, real estate, and small business.

Admitted: Illinois, 1960; U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois 1963.

Law School:
Northwestern University School of Law, J.D. 1960.

College:
Northwestern University, B.A. 1957.

Member:
President of The Kiwanis Foundation of Evanston and member of The Kiwanis Club of Evanston, advisory council of the Salvation Army, Evanston Corps., former President of the University Club of Evanston, and former board member of North Shore Association for the Retarded, Inc., Illinois State Bar Association