Practice Areas

Experienced Legal Guidance for All of Your Life

Comprehensive Legal Counsel Under One Roof

Zanck, Coen, Wright & Saladin, P.C., has purposefully evolved into a firm with broad capabilities to serve all the legal requirements of our clients. Our full complement of attorneys and staff work collaboratively to provide you with practical, strategic legal guidance, whether you’re buying or selling property, planning for the future, starting a business, resolving a dispute, or protecting your rights. There’s no need to manage multiple law offices for the different types of legal counsel you may need throughout your personal, family, or work life.

Trusted for Generations

Many of our clients come to us for one issue and stay with us for a lifetime. We help entrepreneurs grow businesses, families plan for the future, and individuals protect what matters most – often across multiple generations. We are privileged to be trusted to represent the grandchildren of many of our original clients.

No matter what legal challenges you face, you can rely on ZCWS to provide clear guidance, steady advocacy, and results you can trust.

Our Practice Areas

Banking Law

Advising financial institutions and lenders on regulatory compliance, loan documentation, management of ORE, board governance, creditors’ rights, legal compliance, creditor foreclosures, and banking-related disputes.

Business Law

Providing practical legal guidance to Corporations, Limited Liability Companies (LLC), and Partnerships regarding business sales and acquisitions, litigation, contracts, governance, risk management, and Secretary of State filings.

Civil Litigation

Delivering strategic advocacy in McHenry County courts for individuals and businesses in civil disputes over contracts, insurance claims, mechanic’s liens, collections, construction matters, foreclosures, and more.

Criminal Law

Defending individuals facing charges for petty traffic offenses, DUI, and other misdemeanors and felonies, while protecting our clients’ rights at every stage of the process.

Divorce & Family Law

Using collaborative law and mediations to carefully guide clients through divorce, child custody, child and spousal support/ maintenance, property division, Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDRO), and other family law matters.

Employment Law

Representing employers and employees in workplace disputes, employment agreements, separation agreements, benefits, EEOC claims, non-compete or non-solicitation agreements, and other employment-related claims.

Estate Planning & Probate

Helping individuals and families plan for the future and navigate probate with wills, trusts, powers of attorney, special needs trusts, and guardianships, as well as providing trust and estate administration.

Personal Injury & Workers' Compensation 

Advocating to secure fair compensation for individuals injured by auto accidents, slip and fall incidents, wrongful death, malpractice, or work-related injury situations.

Real Estate Law

Handling residential and commercial real estate purchases and sales, as well as residential and commercial property tax appeals.

Zoning & Land Use

Assisting property owners and developers with zoning approvals, special use permits, variances, annexation and disconnection matters, condemnation, condemnation, subdivision platting and declarations, and other use regulations, and municipal processes.