About Dan
Dan Collander began his academic journey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a B.A. in Communications. He later attended Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology and received his J.D. in 1979. Those years in Chicago shaped his approach to law and set the stage for a long career in practice.
He has been a practicing lawyer since 1979. Early on he built a general practice and over time developed ties to county and state bar organizations. He holds current memberships in the DuPage County Bar and the Illinois State Bar Association. His involvement in these organizations kept him connected to local developments in court procedures and bar governance.
Collander has been active in real estate legal circles. He serves on the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association Board, a role that places him among other practitioners who deal with property transactions, title matters, and related disputes. That board membership indicates sustained engagement with the practical and technical issues that affect real estate practitioners across Illinois.
Beyond the courtroom and the bar, Collander has maintained a prominent civic profile in Naperville. He is president of the Naperville Noon Kiwanis and serves as vice president of the Naperville Chamber of Commerce, where he also chairs the golf outing committee. He is a board member and current president of Little Friends, Inc., a local nonprofit. Those roles reflect years of volunteer leadership and local networking outside his legal work.
His professional base is Collander Law Offices. Over decades in practice he has balanced client work, bar activities, and community leadership. Colleagues and clients have come to expect an attorney who knows the local landscape and the legal institutions that serve it.
Today he continues to practice at Collander Law Offices. He focuses his practice on matters informed by his work on the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association Board and his long-standing involvement in the DuPage County legal community.
