Barbara K. Lundergan, a native of Chicago, has practiced in the area of estate planning and trusts for more than 40 years. She was the first woman partner at Chicago-based Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather and Geraldson (now Seyfarth, Shaw LLP), an international law firm. She was also an adjunct professor of law at Loyola University and Illinois Institute of Technology.
Barbara is a Fellow in the prestigious American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, so recognized for her extensive speaking and writing on trust and estate subjects. She has also served as chairman of the Trust Law Committee and the Estate Tax Division of the Committee on Federal Taxation of the Chicago Bar Association and as chairman of the Federal Taxation Committee of the Illinois State Bar Association.
Her other services to the legal profession included being a member of the Planned Giving Advisory Committee at the Art Institute of Chicago, a member of the Northwestern University Estate Planning Advisory Council, member of the board of the Chicago Bar Foundation, member of the Professional Advisor Committee of Chicago Community Trust, member of the editorial board of Illinois Bar Journal, and Member of the Board of Public Interest Law Initiative.
In 2004, Barbara moved to Northfield to be near her grandchildren and joined her daughter, Partner Mary Hahn, in practicing law with Hvistendahl, Moersch, Dorsey & Hahn, P.A.
Barbara K. Lundergan, a native of Chicago, has practiced in the area of estate planning and trusts for more than 40 years. She was the first woman partner at Chicago-based Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather and Geraldson (now Seyfarth, Shaw LLP), an international law firm. She was also an adjunct professor of law at Loyola University and Illinois Institute of Technology.