About Alan
Alan Sohn began his legal journey in Illinois. He earned a B.A. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1962 and completed his J.D. at the University of Illinois College of Law in 1965. Those years set the stage for a long career centered in Chicago courts and professional organizations.
He entered practice as an associate in 1968 at Concannon Dillon Snook & Morton. Five years later he moved into partnership at Sudak Grubman Rosenthal & Feldman. By 1980 he was a principal in the firm Pritikin & Sohn PC. The progression was steady and deliberate. He built experience in firm practice, client counseling and the daily work of estate and trust matters.
The 1980s and 1990s brought further changes. In 1984 he served of counsel at Shulman Silverman & Kreiter. He became a partner at Wood Lucksinger & Epstein in 1986 and then at Greenbaum & Brown in 1989. In 1990 he opened his own practice as principal of the Law Offices of Alan E. Sohn, a move that formalized his long association with Chicago’s probate and trust communities.
He is admitted to practice in Illinois and has credentials to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Seventh Circuit. Those admissions underscore a career that has included appellate work as well as trial- and client-centered practice.
Professional associations have been a recurring feature of his career. He has held membership in the American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association since 1968. His involvement in local bar activity dates back to the late 1960s, including work on the Chicago Bar Association’s Trust Law Committee from 1968 to 1974. He joined the Chicago Estate Planning Council in 2001 and has served on its Public Outreach Committee since 2009.
Colleagues describe his approach as steady and practical. He has spent decades advising clients on estate planning, trust administration and related probate matters. His work has mixed transactional drafting, fiduciary counseling and courtroom appearances where necessary. He has maintained a small-firm practice anchored in Chicago while participating in wider bar activities.
He continues to practice in Chicago as principal of his own firm, handling estate planning and trust matters.
