Steven B. Borkan is a seasoned trial lawyer with over twenty years of experience litigating cases in state and federal court as well as before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Department of Human Rights, the Illinois Human Rights Commission, the Chicago Commission on Human Relations, the Cook County Commission on Human Rights, and the Illinois Workers Compensation Commission. Mr. Borkan is admitted to practice by the Illinois Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. His case victories have been featured in the Chicago Sun-Times, on the front page of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, on page one of the Cook County Verdict Reporter, and have been selected numerous times as "notable defense victories" in the special year end edition of Illinois Jury Verdicts. Mr. Borkan has also been selected as an Illinois SuperLawyer multiple times and a Leading Lawyer by the Leading Lawyers Network.

Andrew S. Goldberg is currently a Partner at Laner, Muchin, Dombrow, Becker, Levin and Tominberg, Ltd. Mr. Goldberg represents employers in employee relations matters, including developing human resources related strategies, handling union-related matters, sexual and other unlawful harassment issues, disciplinary and discharge matters, reductions in force and restructurings, supervisory training and other such matters.

Mr. Goldberg's client base encompasses service industries, restaurant enterprises, the Steel Industry, Food Ingredients and Flavourings industry, as well as extensive practice in other manufacturing and service industries. He co-authored the Employee Benefits and Collective Bargaining Chapter supplement for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education and Employee Benefits Law Manual of the State Laws Chapter of Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education Labor Law Manual.

Mr. Goldberg co-authored the article tilted "Capturing the Benefits and Avoiding the Dangers to Employers of Managing in an Electronic Age," for the 2009 Employment Law Update and the article titled "Highlights and Commentary on the Revisions to the Family and Medical Leave Act" for the 2010 Employment Law Update.

Mr. Goldberg is also a contributing editor to the Developing Labor Law and a frequent speaker for at the Chicago Region of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Technical Assistance Programs. Mr. Goldberg has received recognition as an Illinois Super Lawyer multiple years in a row and was named to the Chicago Lawyer Magazine's "40 Under 40" for 2010.

Maurice A. Vincent is an MBA prepared professional that has had the benefit of extensive experience and training in many areas. This consists of over 20 years of direct management and leadership roles in various industries including healthcare, heat treating, textiles, broadband communications, and litigation support.

Mr. Vincent’s specialties include a strong history in operations, fiscal management, forecasting, sales training and development, budgeting, succession planning, customer satisfaction improvement, contract retention and program development.

Mr. Vincent also holds adjunct professor status for Olivet Nazarene University and Westwood College.

Jeff Gordon, CFA is a Managing Director of the Transaction Opinions Group in the Investment Banking Segment of Duff & Phelps, LLC. Since joining Duff & Phelps in 1985, Mr. Gordon has been involved in approximately 1000 corporate transactions and financial advisory engagements for public and privately held firms, primarily advising boards of directors, special committees of the board, CEOs, CFOs and their corporate counsel with regard to fairness and solvency opinions, as well as board advisory and other business valuation issues. Clients include those in real estate, business services, technology, energy, manufacturing, transportation, and the health care industry, among others. Past clients have included corporations such as UPS, Hyatt Hotels, Toys R’ Us, TransUnion, Peabody Coal, Litton, Sears, Geo. Ball, Valero Energy, Jordan Industries, Fannie May, Duke Realty, Vornado, the Marmon Group, Bunn-O-Matic and 7-Eleven, as well as private equity firms including Bain Capital, KKR, the Carlyle Group, GTCR, Wind Point Partners, the Robert L. Johnson Companies and others.

Mr. Gordon has written extensively on corporate finance topics for such publications as the Journal of Business Strategy, Financial Executive, Accounting Today, Chief Financial Officer and Commerce Magazine. He has lectured groups of corporate attorneys on fairness and solvency issues for well over 20 years.

Mr. Gordon graduated with distinction from Swarthmore College with a BA in Economics and received his MBA in Finance from the University of Michigan (now known as the Ross School of Business). He is the current President of the Ross Alumni Club of Chicago, a Vice President of the American Jewish Committee/Chicago Region, and a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute.