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Representative Bio

Molly manages the Chicago office of Siegel Jennings.  She helps clients identify, maximize, and protect the full potential of their real estate assets, minimize related tax liabilities, and resolve disputes with tax authorities and government entities. Molly’s client experience ranges from local multi-family portfolios to national commercial investment funds, including special use properties such as hospital campuses to multi-million-dollar manufacturing facilities. Her comprehensive understanding of the commercial real estate market was developed in part through her time as a real estate broker in the Chicago area prior to starting her legal career.  Molly regularly represents clients in hearings before review boards, local assessors’ offices, the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board, and the circuit courts. She strategizes with her clients on a broad spectrum of real estate taxation matters, including tax assessment valuations, commercial development incentives, government incentives, reclassifications, exemptions, tax parcel divisions, municipal land banks and property tax abatement strategies. 

Molly earned her BA from University of Notre Dame and a Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

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Mr. Sweeney’s practice is focused on business property valuation and real estate tax assessment. Mr. Sweeney has extensive experience representing diverse clients ranging from national corporations and non-profit organizations to family owned businesses. In over thirty years in the field, including six years as senior assessment analyst for the Cook County (Illinois) Assessor’s Office, Mr. Sweeney has represented thousands of property owners before assessors, boards of review, state appellate boards and in the courts.

Tom Sweeney received his Master in Accountancy from Southern Illinois University and a Juris Doctor from Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois. He has also been designated a Leading Lawyer for Real Estate Tax in Illinois.

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The lawyers at Siegel Jennings Co., L.P.A. have excelled in state and local tax minimization and litigation involving property, sales and use, franchise, and income tax for over four decades. In the last five years alone, we have obtained over $2 billion in real estate assessment reductions for our clients - owners of, and investors in, apartment buildings, office buildings, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, manufacturing plants, hotels, and shopping centers and malls. As attorneys with backgrounds in appraisal, finance, and accounting, as well as investments in real estate ourselves, we are uniquely qualified to provide a perspective that few others can.

Headquartered in Cleveland, with offices in Columbus, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, we can meet the needs of our clients across the Midwest. In addition, as founding members of the American Property Tax Counsel (APTC), a nationwide group of property tax attorneys with local relationships and expertise, we can serve our clients' interests throughout the United States and Canada.

Our fees are generally charged contingent on savings obtained for the client . Our professionals are committed to personal, creative representation and legal counsel, guided by the highest ethical standards.

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