André Katz

Career

P. André Katz is a co-principal of Katz & Stefani, LLC, a law firm serving prominent individuals in family law cases, including premarital, divorce, complex financial, and complex allocation of parental responsibilities (child custody) issues, with offices in Chicago and Bannockburn, Illinois. Mr. Katz also was the Chairman of the Illinois Family Law Study Committee. The Illinois Family Law Study Committee was enacted by House Resolution 1101, and Mr. Katz was appointed as Chairman by House Speaker Michael Madigan in 2008. Previously, he was a partner in the trial department of McDermott Will & Emery and an equity partner at Berger Schatz. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, where he served as senior member of the Loyola Law Journal, Mr. Katz was named one of the “40 Illinois Attorneys Under Age Forty to Watch” by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company in July 2000 and has been selected by the Leading Lawyers and Super Lawyer Networks as a top family law practitioner in Illinois. Mr. Katz was also named a “Best Lawyer” by U.S. News & World Report, and Katz & Stefani, LLC is ranked by U.S. News-Best Law Firms as a Tier One Firm in Chicago for Family Law. Mr. Katz also served on the Cook County Circuit Court’s Domestic Relations Division’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Exploratory Committee.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

Illinois State Bar Association

Chicago Bar Association

Lake County Bar Association

Publications

• A chapter on postnuptial agreements, published in the Illinois Family Law Handbook by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education

• An article on dissipation included in “Tax and Financial Planning Strategies in Divorce”

• A chapter on postnuptial agreements, published in the Illinois Family Law Handbook by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education

• “When Your Elderly Clients Marry: Prenuptial Agreements and Other Considerations,” published in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Journal

• P. André Katz and Erin Bodendorfer authored an article regarding the recent changes to the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act effective January 1, 2016 which was published in the Illinois Bar Journal. Reprinted with permission of the Illinois Bar Journal, Vol. 103 #11, November 2015. Copyright by the Illinois State Bar Association. www.isba.org

• P. André Katz and Erin Bodendorfer authored an additional article, “The Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act Effective January 1, 2016: An Overview from the Chairman of the Illinois Family Law Study Committee,” which was published in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin’s 58th Annual Law Day Edition on April 24, 2016.