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Admitted: 1969, Illinois; 1977, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois Law School: University of Illinois, J.D. Member: Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations Biography: Illinois State Scholar, 1961-1965. Adjunct Faculty, IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law, Spring 1978. Assistant Attorney General, State of Illinois, Environmental Control Division, 1971-1973. Assistant State's Attorney, Cook County, 1973-1981. Supervisor, Environmental Law Section, 1973-1976. General Law and Special Litigation Section, 1976-1980; Real Estate Tax Section, 1980-1981. Chairman, Bench & Bar Advisory Committee on Tax Objections, Circuit Court of Cook County, 1993-1994. Born: Chicago, Illinois, 1944
An attorney for thirty years, Mr. Rieff has served both in government and practiced privately. Since 1979, his practice has been concentrated in the area of real estate assessment law. He has contested assessments on all types and sizes of properties and appeared at all administrative levels as well as in court.
Prior to entering private practice, he served as an Assistant State?s Attorney for Cook County in the Real Estate Tax Section of the Civil Division representing various county offices, including all those involved in the assessment and collection of real estate taxes. He also served as Chief of the State's Attorney?s Environmental Law Department. Mr. Rieff?s former governmental law experience includes service as City Attorney for Carbondale, Illinois and as an Assistant Illinois Attorney General.
Mr. Rieff is a past Chairman of the Chicago Bar Association's Real Estate Taxation Committee. He previously served as Vice-Chairman of the committee and Chairman of its Legislation Subcommittee. He served as a member of the Civic Federation's Task Force on Reforming the Cook County Tax Appeals Process and has also served as Chairman of the Bench and Bar Advisory Committee on Real Estate Tax Objections in the Circuit Court of Cook County.
Mr. Rieff has lectured at seminars on Real Estate Tax Law and procedures for the Chicago Bar Association, the DuPage County Bar Association, Lorman Education Services and private law firms. He has both his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He is admitted to practice in the State of Illinois, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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