David Baker
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David Baker

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An American College of Estate and Trust Counsel (ACTEC) Fellow, David A. Baker is a highly respected and well-known probate & estate attorney. He has been the lead attorney arguing over a dozen published Appellate Court Opinions in his area of practice and has litigated some of the highest-profile cases in the field of Estate and Trust litigation. David is licensed in New York and Illinois and has worked at his current law firm for forty-five years, where he started and now heads a practice group that focuses on contested estate, trust, and guardianship cases. He has consistently ranked as one of the country’s top attorneys in the field of Litigated Probate by the Chambers Rating Service, where he’s one of only six “Band One” nationally-ranked attorneys in the field of Estate and Trust Controversy. Baker writes for and speaks at State Continuing Legal Education seminars, ACTEC conferences (The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel), and the Heckerling, all major venues in his field. He’s also been published dozens of times in professional publications. In 2019, he founded the Anti-School Bullying Program at the Civitas ChildLaw Center of Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, his alma mater, for several reasons, but mostly because school shootings almost always begin with school bullying, and he got tired of waiting for sensible gun control. David ran his firm’s Pro Bono program for over a decade. He’s done just about everything you can do with guardianship law, from cult-busting to rescuing elder-financial-exploitation kidnapping victims. Now, well into his career, Baker published two books: “Death Is No Excuse”, a guide to end-of-life and disability planning; and his most recent novel “Patriot Acts”, about how big bullies and little bullies impact everything we do. He was born in 1954 near the West Side of Chicago, the child of Irish and Italian immigrants. The three-flat his parents lived in was torn down to build part of the campus of the University of Illinois--Chicago, where he graduated twenty-two years later.
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