Keller Law Group, LLC

Focus and practice areas

The firm is a business and corporate practice based in Naperville, Illinois. Keller Law Group works with corporate and business clients across the Chicago area. Its attorneys report 30 years of combined experience with litigation, property, and employment matters.

The named practice areas fall into a few clusters. On the corporate side the firm handles business law, partnership and shareholder disputes, and noncompete agreements. On the litigation side it takes business litigation and breach of contract claims. Commercial real estate and construction litigation, including mechanic's liens, cover the property work, and wage and overtime matters cover the employment side.

How business disputes tend to move

Much of this work follows a familiar path, and a little general context shows what a client can expect. Partnership and shareholder disputes usually open with a review of the operating or shareholder agreement, since those documents set the rules for buyouts and voting. Breach of contract claims turn on the written terms and the record of what each side actually did.

Construction litigation and mechanic's liens run under Illinois lien statutes, which set firm deadlines for recording a claim against a property. Wage and overtime questions follow state and federal pay rules, where the timesheets and the classification of each worker carry the weight. As a reviewer, I read a practice list like this one as built around contracts and the paperwork behind them.

What the corporate and property work covers

Commercial real estate work covers the purchase, sale, and leasing of property a business uses, along with the disputes that follow when a lease term or a deal breaks down. On the corporate side, business law reaches company formation, ownership agreements, and the contracts a company signs day to day. Noncompete agreements fall under employment law, and Illinois courts weigh them against limits on time, geography, and the interest an employer can protect.

Business litigation itself moves through stages that most commercial cases share: a complaint, a period of document exchange and depositions, and either a negotiated resolution or a trial. Many contract and shareholder matters settle once the records are on the table, since the numbers tend to point both sides toward the same range. A firm that also drafts the underlying agreements, as this one does, often knows where those records sit.

How the team is built

The firm names two attorneys on its site. Jeffrey S. Keller is the founder, and Krista Carls is listed as Of Counsel.

Keller started the firm in 1994 after leaving Keck, Mahin & Cate, where he worked from 1989 to 1994 as an associate in litigation, real estate, and corporate law. Before law he spent 1985 to 1988 as a corporate accountant at Allstate. He earned a B.A. in accounting from North Central College in 1985 and a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1990, and he was admitted to practice in Illinois in 1990. He describes his own concentration across five fields: litigation, consumer bankruptcy, divorce and family law, real estate, and business law.

Krista Carls holds the Of Counsel title. That title usually marks a lawyer who works with a firm on a continuing basis outside the partner track.

A founder who began in accounting

Keller's route into law ran through numbers first. His accounting degree and three years as a corporate accountant at Allstate came before his law degree. That mix of finance and law is uncommon among small-firm founders, and it shows in a practice weighted toward contracts and money in dispute. In my opinion that background fits the firm's contract and business focus, where reading financial terms carefully often decides a case.

Offices and the area served

The firm keeps two offices, one in Naperville and one in Aurora. Its stated service area covers DuPage, Kane, and Will counties, which sit in the western part of the Chicago metro. That reach lines up with a practice aimed at companies in the suburbs west of the city. Naperville and Aurora both sit within that three-county area, so the two offices put the firm close to the courts where its cases are filed. For a client, that means filings and hearings in the DuPage, Kane, and Will County courthouses that serve those suburbs.

What the record shows

The public facts here are consistent and modest. The firm has run under the same name since 1994, and it points to 30 years of combined experience among its attorneys. Combined experience counts the years of both attorneys together, a common way small firms sum their time. Keller's own profile carries the most detail, with named schools, an admission year, and a prior firm on the page.

The site keeps to experience and practice scope for its claims, so a reader judges the firm on that basis. For a business owner in DuPage, Kane, or Will County, Keller Law Group offers a business and litigation practice led by a founder who has run it for three decades. The firm handles contracts, partnership and shareholder matters, commercial real estate, and construction disputes from its Naperville and Aurora offices.