MacDonald, Lee & Senechalle, Ltd.

Focus and practice areas

The firm works from two Illinois offices, one in Hoffman Estates and one in Des Plaines. The site describes a full-service practice, and the range of work supports that label. Clients include individuals, businesses, churches and not-for-profit organizations across the Midwest.

The named practice areas are broad. They cover business and corporate law, commercial real estate, employment law, estate planning, insurance law, civil litigation, mediation, probate and trust administration. In my opinion that mix suits a firm that handles the legal needs of small and mid-sized organizations along with the people who run them.

How the team is built

Twelve attorneys appear on the firm's roster: Brian M. Bentrup, Tempia A. Courts, Neal Geitner, Alfred S. Lee, Gregory A. MacDonald, Charles F. Maupin, James H. Pluymert, Joseph P. Selbka, Ronald J. Senechalle, Andrew Smith, Mia Cristescu and Samuel Ring. Three of those surnames appear in the firm's name, which points to long-serving partners in the practice. A roster of twelve across these fields lets the firm keep several practice areas staffed within one office.

The site states that these attorneys hold more than 150 years of combined legal experience, and that the firm has more than 55 years of history. It does not list a founding year, so the exact start date stays open. As a reviewer, I read the combined figure as a claim about the depth of the whole group rather than about any single lawyer.

Business and transactional work

Business and corporate matters run through much of the firm's work. The attorneys help companies with entity formation, governance, transactions, disputes, succession and dissolution. Mergers and acquisitions and business litigation both appear on the home page as part of this practice.

Business formation itself covers a set of early choices. A new company picks a structure, such as a corporation or a limited liability company, and that choice shapes its taxes, its paperwork and the personal risk its owners carry. Governance work then sets the rules for how owners and managers make decisions. The firm's listed services line up with these stages of a company's life.

Succession planning decides who takes over a company when an owner steps back, and dissolution handles an orderly close when owners wind a business down. Both can involve valuation, contracts and tax questions. These are the later stages the firm's business practice names.

Commercial real estate

The firm also handles commercial real estate alongside the corporate work. It manages purchases and sales, lease negotiations, financing and zoning matters. Zoning questions decide what an owner may build or run on a parcel, and they often bring the owner before a local board.

Employment matters

The employment practice mainly counsels employers. The firm also represents both sides of employment relationships, so workers as well as companies can bring matters to it. Employment agreements appear on the home page among its listed services.

An employment agreement sets terms such as pay, duties, restrictive covenants and severance. Disputes in this field often turn on the exact wording of those documents and on state and federal law. For an employer, clear agreements can reduce later conflict over duties and departures. That is the ground the firm's employment work covers when it advises a company or a worker.

Estate planning and probate

For individuals and families, the firm prepares wills, trusts, advance directives and powers of attorney. It also handles probate and estate administration after a death. These services let a person set out who receives their property and who makes decisions if they cannot.

Probate is the court process for settling an estate. An executor or administrator gathers the assets, pays debts and taxes, and distributes what remains under the will or under state law. Trust administration follows a similar path outside court, and the trust's own terms guide it. As a reviewer, I note that offering both the planning and the later administration lets one firm follow a family's matter over many years.

Advance directives and powers of attorney work alongside a will. A power of attorney names someone to act on a person's behalf for money or health choices, and an advance directive records wishes for medical care. These documents take effect while a person is still living, which is why they often belong in the same plan as a will.

Disputes, litigation and mediation

A share of the firm's work involves resolving disagreements once they arise. Civil litigation and mediation both appear among its listed practices. Litigation is the court route for a dispute, while mediation brings the parties together with a neutral third person to try for a settlement.

The insurance practice deals with policy interpretation, coverage disputes, claim denials and bad-faith matters. These cases ask what a policy actually promises and whether the insurer met that promise. Bad-faith claims arise when a policyholder argues the insurer handled a valid claim unfairly. A policyholder often needs help reading dense policy language after a claim goes wrong.

Construction work also brings disputes. The firm represents participants in residential and commercial projects, among them buyers, sellers, builders, homeowners, contractors and architects. Contracts on a build set the schedule, the payment terms and who carries which risk, so many disagreements return to that paperwork.

Formal name and directory identity

The directory presents the firm as MacDonald, Lee & Senechalle, while the legal name in the record is MacDonald, Lee & Senechalle, Ltd. That final designation is a small but useful detail for anyone comparing the listing with formal correspondence or other firm records. The same three surnames identify the practice in both versions, so the shorter display name remains easy to connect with the full legal name.

The practice categories add another layer to that directory identity. The record places the firm under business law and the more specific headings for mergers and acquisitions, business formation and business litigation. It uses the same broad and narrow structure for real estate, with separate categories for real estate and commercial real estate. Those labels describe how the listing is organized. The detailed service record supports commercial property work, so the general real estate category does not supply additional matter types by itself.

Hoffman Estates office details

The address attached to this listing is 2300 Barrington Rd, Hoffman Estates, Illinois. This gives the Hoffman Estates location a precise street reference within the record. For a directory reader, that is more useful than a city name alone when confirming which location appears in the listing. The record also identifies the practice through its website at https://www.pmllegal.com/, which uses the abbreviated "pml" form rather than spelling out the three names.

Contact information

Two telephone numbers appear in the record: 847-310-0025 and 847-298-5030. Neither number is assigned to a named attorney or a stated practice group in the supplied information, so they remain firm-level contact points in this review. The record also does not connect a particular number with a particular office. Keeping both numbers together avoids adding an unsupported distinction between them.

Taken strictly as directory data, the contact record gives a reader three direct routes to the firm: the Barrington Road address, the website and the two listed telephone numbers. The street address identifies the location covered by this entry, while the legal name supplies the formal identity that belongs with those contact details.