About Maxine Weiss
Maxine Weiss Kunz trained first as an undergraduate at Indiana University, where she studied telecommunications and psychology and took a minor in business. She earned her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2005. Those years set the foundations for a practice that combines courtroom experience and alternate dispute resolution skills.
Her early legal work began at The Law Office of Debra J. Braselton, P.C., where she listed as counsel in 2004. She moved to Rosenfeld Hafron Shapiro & Farmer in 2008 and then helped form Weiss Kunz & Green, LLC in 2014. In 2016 she became a partner at Weiss-Kunz & Oliver, LLC. The sequence shows steady progression from associate roles into firm leadership over a relatively short period.
Kunz holds a number of court and professional certifications that shape the way she handles cases. Cook County has certified her as a Guardian ad Litem and as a Child Representative. The State of Illinois has certified her as a mediator and as a collaborative lawyer. Those credentials allow her to represent children in contested matters, to serve neutral roles in mediation, and to participate in negotiated, non-litigated resolutions.
Her professional affiliations stretch across local and national organizations. She has been a member of the DuPage County Bar Association since 2005 and has been a fellow of the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois since the same year. She served on the Chicago Bar Association between 2008 and 2013 and has maintained involvement with the American Bar Association at different times, including serving as an Illinois State Bar Association delegate to the ABA beginning in 2015. Since 2020 she has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. She also serves on the development committee of The Lilac Tree, an organization connected to family services, and has been active on the Illinois State Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division council.
Kunz maintains offices in Chicago, Elmhurst and Park Ridge. Her practice combines courtroom representation for family-law matters with roles as a mediator and collaborative practitioner. She handles custody and visitation disputes, represents children in court, and participates in settlement-oriented processes as a mediator and collaborative lawyer. Her current practice centers on family law, including custody, child representation, mediation, and collaborative processes.
