Zara Law Group

Focus and practice areas

Zara Law Group works out of three Illinois offices: Woodridge, Skokie and Naperville. Clients come from Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will Counties. That footprint covers most of the Chicago suburbs west and north of the city.

Real estate is the area the firm describes in the most detail. The work covers residential and commercial transactions, contract review, closings and property disputes. Both named attorneys list real estate among their areas.

Landlord-tenant matters get their own treatment on the site. The firm handles lease drafting, evictions, security deposit disputes and habitability issues. Those four items map closely to how Illinois residential tenancy fights actually arise.

Construction and property disputes

The firm also takes construction matters for contractors, property owners and developers. Listed tasks are contract drafting, construction defect claims and dispute resolution. In my opinion, pairing construction work with a real estate practice is a sensible fit, since defect claims and closing disputes often involve the same properties and the same documents.

Construction defect claims in Illinois generally start with notice to the contractor and an inspection, and they frequently turn on the terms of the original contract. A firm that drafts those contracts has a working view of where they tend to break.

How the team is built

Two attorneys are named on the site: Zohaib Ali and Aamir H. Razvi. Both list real estate, business and criminal work.

Zohaib Ali handles real estate closings, bankruptcy proceedings, business law and commercial transactions. Bankruptcy is his alone among the two bios. That combination puts consumer and business debt work in the same hands as the property transactions it often touches.

Aamir H. Razvi practises real estate, business, criminal and immigration law. His bio says he takes time to understand each client's matter before deciding on an approach to the case. Immigration is the area only he lists.

Between them, the two attorneys cover the areas the firm markets most heavily. The site gives practice-area labels rather than titles, so the internal structure of the firm is left to the reader.

Business and transactional work

On the business side, the firm advises on entity selection, corporate governance and compliance. It drafts employment and contractor agreements. It also handles business disputes.

Entity selection is early-stage work: choosing between an LLC, an S corporation and other forms before the first contract is signed. The choice affects tax treatment, liability exposure and how owners can later exit. Firms that also do the follow-on governance work tend to see the consequences of that first decision.

Employment and contractor agreements sit next to that. Illinois has its own rules on restrictive covenants and worker classification, and both get tested when a relationship ends. Drafting and disputes in the same practice gives the attorneys a view of both stages.

What the wider service list covers

Beyond real estate and business, the firm lists estate planning, immigration, family law, traffic violations, litigation and bankruptcy. Probate and estate planning appear in the footer and the consultation form.

Family law matters named are divorce and child custody. Criminal defence covers DUI, felony, misdemeanour and traffic cases. Personal injury, workers' compensation and medical malpractice claims are listed as well.

How some of these matters proceed

Illinois probate runs through the circuit court in the county where the person lived, and whether a full probate is needed often depends on the size and shape of the estate. Estate planning done in advance is what determines that. A firm handling both sides sees which planning choices simplify the later administration.

Workers' compensation claims in Illinois go before the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, which is an administrative body with its own procedures and arbitrators. That path differs from a civil personal injury suit, even when the underlying injury looks similar. Firms listing both areas have to sort the claim into the right track early.

DUI cases usually run on two tracks at once: the criminal charge in circuit court and a separate administrative action on the driver's licence through the Secretary of State. Deadlines on the licence side are short and independent of the criminal case.

What the record shows

The firm names its service areas by county and lists eight practice areas on its about page. It names two attorneys with their areas. It gives set weekday office hours and offers free consultations in person, by phone or virtually.

As a reviewer, the useful signal here is specificity within real estate. Plenty of general practices list "real estate" and stop. Zara Law Group breaks it into closings, contract review, property disputes, four named categories of landlord-tenant work and three named categories of construction work. That level of detail is a reasonable proxy for where the day-to-day volume sits.

The site does not state a founding year, and it does not give law schools or admission years for either attorney. Titles such as partner or associate are absent too. Readers looking for those details will need to ask directly.

The three-office arrangement is worth noting for practical reasons. Woodridge sits in DuPage County, Naperville straddles DuPage and Will, and Skokie is in Cook. Real estate closings and court appearances are county-bound activities, and having a presence in more than one county lines up with the counties the firm says it serves.

Who this listing will suit

The clearest match is a client with an Illinois property matter in the western or northern suburbs: a closing, a contract to review, a dispute with a tenant or a landlord, or a defect claim on a build. The firm describes that work in more detail than anything else it offers.

Small business owners form the second group. Entity formation, governance, employment agreements and business disputes are all named, and both attorneys list business law.

Clients with a criminal, immigration, family or bankruptcy matter will find those areas listed and staffed, though with less description attached. Zara Law Group offers a free consultation across all of them, in person, by phone or virtually, on weekdays.