Reinventing Law To Improve Lives

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Reinventing Legal

Our Core Values

01
Make Clients
Love Us

We remove obstacles for our clients, showing them in every interaction that we care about their futures.

02
Understand and Educate

We empower clients by taking the time to understand their individual needs and concerns, then educating them about their options.

03
Let Bushido Code Guide Us

We are moral, courageous, benevolent, respectful, honest and loyal.

04
Find a Better Way

We’re driven to improve our processes and our service, and charge every team member with finding a better way.

05
Achieve as a Team

We know our collective strength is greater than the sum of our parts, and embrace openness, learning and mentoring for the benefit of our clients, our business and our team members.

06
Laugh Often and Make Others Smile

We work hard, have fun and strive to create an environment in which everyone can do the same.

Our Leadership

Mike Deighan on LinkedIn

Mike Deighan

Managing Partner

Mike specializes in advising and assisting public companies, closely-held businesses and institutional investors restructure businesses and real estate.
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James MacLelland on LinkedIn

James MacLelland

Chief Operating Officer

James is the Chief Operating Officer at UpRight Law and brings to the firm a strong background in building financial teams, operations, and systems for high-growth businesses.
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Hal Katz on LinkedIn

Hal Katz

Chief Financial Officer

Hal is a seasoned finance professional with over 25 years of experience both as a strategic CFO of growth businesses as well as a commercial and investment banker.
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David Leibowitz on LinkedIn

David Leibowitz

Senior Legal Advisor

David is a nationally recognized consumer protection litigation attorney. He has spent over 25 years vigorously defending consumer rights. He is also a Chapter 7 Trustee.
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David Menditto on LinkedIn

David Menditto

General Counsel

David is the General Counsel of UpRight Law. His department is responsible for providing legal counsel to all departments of the firm and handling any litigation in which the firm is involved. During his career, David has worked as a litigator at various firms and as Associate General Counsel at a major telecommunications provider. He also has served as General Counsel of a construction company.

David graduated from the University of Illinois cum laude in 1993.
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Our Outside Counsel

Lucian T. Pera on LinkedIn

Lucian T. Pera

Professional Responsibility Counsel

Lucian is a nationally recognized ethics attorney. Lucian advises the firm in its efforts to be compliant with state bar requirements regulating the practice of law. He has served as President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, Treasurer of the American Bar Association and recently as Chair of the governing committee of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility. He also served on the ABA “Ethics 2000” Commission that substantially revised the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct in 2002.

Mary Robinson on LinkedIn

Mary Robinson

Advisor

Mary is a nationally respected ethics attorney. She is a former long time Administrator of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Committee. She advises the firm on all regulatory and compliance matters.

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