About Philip Koenig

Attorney Philip E. Koenig has more than 30 years of experience in trusts, wills, estate planning, tax, real estate, and general business issues. Koenig is the rare combination of an experienced litigator and a transactional lawyer. He provides complete estate planning services including tax planning, preparation of trust agreements, wills and powers of attorney, and estate administration. He has extensive experience with contested estate matters. He also handles mechanic’s lien and construction litigation.
Koenig often utilizes living trusts as a preferred method to avoid probate and streamline the process of estate administration following a death. His trial experience includes real estate, estate, probate and tax litigation. His clients have achieved positive results in the trial and appellate courts.

He has extensive experience dealing with tax audits and tax dispute issues for personal and small or closely-held businesses. As a result of his vast trial and transactional experience, he is often called upon with business formation, entity and incorporation issues. While he enjoys helping clients work out their complex legal problems, he receives just as much satisfaction from his efforts to avoid legal problems through proper planning and structuring of entities or assets..

Bar Admissions
Illinois, 1975
U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois, 1975
U.S. Tax Court, 1995

Education
Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, J.D.

Published Works
“Survey of Illinois Law – Real Estate Finance,” 12 Southern Illinois University Law Journal 1157, 1988

Representative Cases
In Re: Estate of Muppavarapu, 359 Ill App3d 925 (Third District 2005)
Melton v. Melton, 324 F3d 941 (7th Circuit 2003)