Areas We Serve
Condo and HOA Legal Counsel Across Chicagoland
Shifrin Legal was built from the ground up to serve one type of client: community associations. We represent condominium, homeowners, and townhome associations, and only associations, throughout the Chicago metropolitan area and northern Illinois. Your community might be a downtown high-rise, a North Shore townhome development, or a subdivision in the far western suburbs. Either way, the legal issues it faces usually start with people, so that is where our work starts too.
Three Offices, Close to the Communities We Serve
With offices in Chicago, Northbrook, and Lake Forest, our attorneys are close to the boards we represent and the managing agents who work with them. That means we can meet in person when a matter calls for it, attend board and owner meetings, and understand the local issues that shape each community.
Every community association matter has a legal dimension. But at Shifrin Legal, we've learned — through years of practice and thousands of hours sitting across the table from boards, managers, and the people they're trying to serve — that the legal dimension is rarely where a matter begins or ends.
People are at the root of every condominium and community association legal issue. A collections matter isn't just a delinquent account — it's often a homeowner in financial distress, a board torn between compassion and its fiduciary duty, and a community watching to see how its leadership responds. A rule enforcement dispute isn't just a violation notice — it's frequently a long-simmering conflict between neighbors that's finally found a legal form.
That's why our first step isn't drafting a letter. It's listening.
Before we recommend a course of action, we develop a genuine understanding of the individuals involved — their history, their motivations, and what a successful outcome actually looks like for the people in the room, not just on the page. Then we bring our command of Illinois community association law to bear in a way that's tailored to that specific situation, those specific people, and those specific stakes.
This is what we mean by the human side of law. And it's what separates advice that technically works from advice that actually works.
"SL recognizes that people are at the root of all condominium and community association legal issues... SL seamlessly combines its knowledge of the law and understanding of people to protect its clients and achieve their legal objectives."
— The Shifrin Legal Philosophy
Towns We Serve in Illinois
Chicago Office
Northbrook Office
Serving Associations in 11 Illinois Counties
Our attorneys represent associations in Cook, DuPage, Lake, Will, McHenry, Kane, Kendall, Boone, DeKalb, LaSalle, and Winnebago Counties. Our clients range from Evanston to Naperville, Waukegan to Joliet, and Schaumburg to Rockford, across the city, the suburbs, and beyond.
Wherever Your Association Is in Chicagoland, We Can Help
If your association is anywhere in Chicagoland, Shifrin Legal can advise your board on governance, assessment collections, rule enforcement, amendments to governing documents, and litigation when it becomes necessary. Our approach is practical: we resolve problems efficiently, avoid conflict where we can, and protect the association when we can’t.
