Overview
Trusts and Estates
Working closely with clients, Quin designs sophisticated estate plans for wealthy clients, guiding them in asset protection and succession planning for family businesses and foundations. He helps clients understand and establish appropriate trusts, including:
- Insurance trusts
- Dynasty trusts and sales to grantor trusts
- Grantor-retained annuity trusts
- Qualified personal residence trusts
- Charitable remainder trusts and wealth replacement trusts
- Charitable lead trusts
Quin is valued for his ability to advise clients on establishing public charities, private foundations (both operating and nonoperating foundations) and supporting organizations. He manages estate and trust taxation and administration issues and represents personal representatives, trustees, guardians and other fiduciaries.
Will and Trust Disputes and Construction
Quin works closely with the firm’s litigation practice to represent individuals and charitable organizations as beneficiaries in will and trust disputes, as well as individual and corporate fiduciaries in will and trust construction matters.
Faculty Positions
- Loyola University Chicago Law School — Adjunct Professor, 1980-81
Personal Interests
- Comic book, stamp and sports card collecting
Related Services
Credentials
Bar Admissions
Illinois
Court Admissions
U.S. Tax Court
Education
Mount St. Paul College
B.A. (1968)
Notre Dame Law School
J.D. (1975)
Insights & Events
Insights
Leadership & Community
Pro Bono
- Cook County Probate Court Assistance Program
- Leader of BreakFree, an anti-sex-trafficking group
Professional Associations
- Chicago Bar Association — Probate Practice Committee, Past Chair
- American Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar Association
Civic Activities
- Chicago Commons Association — Associate Director, Past Chair
- Member of Selah Freedom Advisory Council
Honors
- Best Lawyers® — Nonprofit / Charities Law, Trusts and Estates, 2020-24 (Lawyer of the Year - Nonprofit/Charities Law, 2021)
- Faegre Drinker — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2021
- Illinois Super Lawyers — 2006-19
- Selah Freedom — Champion Defender Award, 2018
- Leading Lawyers, Illinois — Trust, Will and Estate Planning Law, 2003-19
No aspect of these recognitions has been approved by the highest court of any state.