Beau focuses his practice primarily on the representation of financial institutions, middle-market companies and small businesses. He provides both litigation and transactional services to clients. 

Beau was a founding member of the law firm that is now known as Greiman, Rome & Griesmeyer, LLC.  Prior to founding Greiman, Rome & Griesmeyer, LLC., Beau was a Partner at the Chicago law firm of Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC and the Chairperson of its Litigation Group.  During Beau’s tenure at Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC, it grew from a firm of less than 30 attorneys to a firm with over 70 attorneys.  Prior to his time at Levenfeld Pearlstein, Mr. Greiman practiced at Chicago's Jenner & Block, LLP, which is a nationally-recognized litigation firm with 400+ attorneys.

In addition to his legal experience, Beau offers clients a perspective informed by his real-world business experience as the former chief compliance officer for a successful hedge fund, CPO, and CTA.

Beau has successfully tried numerous cases to verdict, and has arbitrated a number of matters before the American Arbitration Association, NASD, NYSE and other self-regulatory organizations. Additionally, he has represented public companies in connection with internal investigations relating to financial reporting and disclosure issues. Beau’s recent litigation victories include:

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Adam is the leader of the firms' Restructuring & Insolvency Service Group.  Adam concentrates his practice on protecting the rights of secured creditors, insolvency work, partnership disputes and business torts.  Adam has defended the rights of secured creditors in numerous transactions in Federal and State courts.  Adam has extensive courtroom experience; he has successfully asserted and defended TRO’s (temporary restraining orders), while always taking the necessary measures to protect the interests of his clients.  Adam’s insolvency work includes:

Adam also specializes in litigation involving real estate, developer liability, securities and corporate litigation.  This work includes:

Adam is a founding partner of Greiman, Rome & Griesmeyer. Prior to starting the firm, Adam gained significant experience at Dykema Gossett and Levenfeld Pearlstein, where he represented businesses in federal and state courts in numerous contract, tort and non-competition agreement cases.

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Chris Griesmeyer concentrates his practice on commercial disputes with an emphasis on business torts and unfair competition claims, intellectual property disputes, employment claims, and general commercial matters.  He has served as lead trial counsel in a number of successful trials to verdict across the country. 

Chris’ litigation and trial experience includes several multi-million dollar awards in arbitration proceedings before the AAA and FINRA (including its predecessors, the NYSE and NASD).  He frequently counsels and represents employers and C-level executives in the enforcement and defense of restrictive covenants, as well as in litigating the related business torts that frequently accompany those actions, such as fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion and trade secret misappropriation.  Chris has also served as regional products liability trial counsel for a number of Fortune 500 companies involving products such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, construction equipment, industrial machines and processing lines, and toxic chemicals.  Some of Chris’ more recent accomplishments are listed below.

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Prior to founding Greiman, Rome & Griesmeyer, Chris was a partner at Levenfeld Pearlstein, where he also served as the Vice-Chair of the firm’s litigation group.  He was previously associated with Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, and Altheimer & Gray.  Chris was named an Illinois Super Lawyer “Rising Star” in 2009 and 2010, and he is proud to serve as Secretary and General Counsel on the National Board of Directors for The Children’s Heart Foundation.

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Lisa is a commercial litigator with vast experience litigating a wide variety of complex cases for mid- and large-size, national and international, public and privately-held companies. Lisa has a reputation for outstanding client service and for finding creative, cost-effective, business-oriented solutions to clients' legal problems. As lead trial lawyer, she has won several significant victories in federal and state courts in Illinois and New Jersey for both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of industries. Lisa has a track record for achieving favorable results for clients in matters involving breach of contract, business torts such as defamation, commercial disparagement, tortious interference, fraud, and theft of trade secrets, as well as wrongful death, personal injury and product liability.

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Ms. Bernath works in GRG's Chicago Office, where she handles a wide variety of commercial litigation matters. She has been in the legal field for over 10 years, where she has focused primarily on banking and finance disputes, including bankruptcy filings, commercial foreclosures, troubled asset work-outs, post-judgment collection matters, and fraudulent transfer cases. April also manages the intake and production of e-discovery for GRG's largest cases. She is an active member of the Illinois Paralegal Association as well as the National Federation of Paralegal Association.

Ms. Aspin handles a wide variety of commercial litigation matters involving financial products and investments, and has more than 20 years of experience in that field. In addition to her paralegal work, Debbie also serves as GRG’s office manager, and splits time between the firm’s Chicago and Naperville offices.

Sonia has extensive experience representing businesses, financial institutions and individuals in claims involving breach of contract, consumer fraud, deceptive business practices, anti-competition, unfair lending practices and employment matters.  She also has vast experience representing health care professionals and health care entities in litigation and compliance matters.  Sonia has seen cases from their initial investigation through trial, and she has participated in state and appellate court appeals.  She is known for her zealous and undeterred representation of clients.

Some of Sonia’s recent accomplishments include:

• Obtaining summary judgment in a complex defamation and corporate fraud suit on behalf of a whistleblower to a multi-million dollar corporate theft, resulting in dismissal of the majority of claims against the client.  Sonia assisted with the trial on the remaining issue with the outcome of a favorable defense verdict.  The corporate fraud had resulted in three individuals being indicted and convicted in federal court, the whistleblower being terminated from his employment and a retaliatory discharge action against the company.

• Obtaining dismissal of an employment discrimination suit based on arguments of federal preemption and failure to exhaust administrative remedies in a case where the plaintiff alleged her employers, a physician and medical practice, sexually harassed her.  The dismissal was further affirmed by the Illinois Appellate Court.

• Advising entities on HIPAA and privacy law compliance and Business Associate agreements.

• Obtaining summary judgment on the key claims in a complex breach of fiduciary duty case litigated in probate court.  Sonia took control of the case and moved it into a favorable posture for the respondent where, prior to taking over the defense, it had lingered in court for years.      

• Overseeing litigation spanning six states and obtaining judgments in excess of $13 million on behalf of the lender against a nationally recognized real estate developer.

• Successfully defending clients in a large federal lawsuit with co-defendants that included an Illinois state agency, a police department and a municipal corporation where the plaintiffs alleged conspiracy, malicious prosecution, defamation, invasion of privacy and section 1983 violations.   Sonia was lead counsel in taking and defending the numerous depositions resulting in voluntary dismissal by the plaintiffs just following party depositions.

• Obtaining a defense verdict as trial counsel on behalf of a physician and medical practice in complex litigation where liability was initially admitted and two independent treating physicians testified against client.

• Obtaining a favorable settlement on behalf of a small local business in a trademark infringement case brought against it by a multi-million dollar corporation resulting in the opposing party relinquishing all rights to the disputed trademark.  The case was featured on television program, 60 Minutes.

• Successfully defending a medical device distributor in a breach of  anticipatory repudiation, allowing the client to avoid multi-million dollar claimed damages.

• Successfully getting the plaintiff’s expert barred and obtaining summary judgment in favor of a physician and medical practice in a case where the decedent overdosed on prescription medications.  Summary judgment was affirmed by the Illinois Appellate Court.

• Successfully representing petitioners in pro bono political asylum cases and the petitioner in a complex pro bono international kidnapping case under the Hague Convention (resulting in a young child being reunited with her mother after nearly a year of separation,) – the judgment was further affirmed by the Seventh Circuit Appellate Court.

Before joining the firm, Sonia practiced at Dykema Gossett PLLC in the areas of complex commercial and health care litigation.  She previously taught business writing to undergraduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Illinois and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

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JD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BS – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with honors

Authorships:

• “Do New Breach Notification Rules in the HITECH Act Make Your Personal Information More Secure?” Dykema Business Law Quarterly
• “Indirect Purchaser Lawsuits: A State by State Survey,” ABA Antitrust Litigation Guidebook
• “Consent Issues in Hospital Care” Handbook for the Chicagoland Healthcare Risk Management Society.

Professional and Civic Involvement:

• Legal Task Force, Illinois Office of Health Information Technology
• American Academy of Pediatrics, IL Chapter, Coverage and Reimbursement Committee – Prevention of Childhood Obesity
• Voter protection attorney, IL, IN and MI elections
• Indo-American Center, pro bono attorney
• Asian American Bar Association, past Judicial Evaluations Committee Chair
• Women’s Bar Association
• Illinois State Treasurer, past Community Affairs Council appointed member
• IADO, served on executive board

Mack is a commercial litigator with extensive experience representing companies of all sizes and in a variety of industries in a wide array of cases.  His practice emphasizes defending and prosecuting claims in arbitration before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) – including, but not limited to, broker recruiting or “raiding” claims.  Mack also has experience representing companies in state and federal court in a variety of other complex matters, such as breach of contract actions (including actions involving post-employment restrictive covenants), fiduciary actions, trade secret disputes, statutory and common-law unfair competition disputes, patent disputes, environmental disputes, and employment disputes.

            Representative Accomplishments:

• Obtained successful results in numerous matters before FINRA and its predecessor entities on behalf of financial institutions and their brokers

• Successfully opposed motions for temporary injunctive relief seeking to enforce post-employment restrictive covenants

• Prevailed on two motions to dismiss a purported class action lawsuit involving the State of Illinois and its alleged misclassification of state employees as independent contractors

• In a matter of first impression in Illinois involving the assignment of “shop rights,” defeated a motion for summary judgment on behalf of an individual plaintiff in a patent litigation against a Fortune 15 company

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            Illinois State Bar Association

            Chicago Bar Association

            American Bar Association

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            Illinois, 2005

Admitted to Practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Illinois

            Education:

            University of Pennsylvania, J.D., 2005

            University of Chicago, M.A., Humanities, 2001

            University of Delaware, B.A., Philosophy (Magna Cum Laude), 2000

Ms. Regas works in GRG’s Naperville Office, where she focuses primarily on real estate litigation and business tort disputes. In this regard, Kris brings more than 20 years of experience in the construction and real estate industries. She is also responsible for database management and large-scale document production projects for GRG’s clients.