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THOMAS W. BURKART
Co-Owner & Supervising Attorney

Mr. Burkart completed his undergraduate work at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio (B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Distinguished Military Graduate). He earned his juris doctorate at St. Louis University School of Law in 1985 and was admitted to the Illinois bar in the same year. He is a member of the Missouri Bar and the Federal District Court of Southern Illinois. He is also admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.

Mr. Burkart is a member of the Attorney’s Title Guaranty Fund, Inc., the National Association of Bar-Related Title Insurers, and the Illinois Bar Association. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves, Signal Corp, 1982-1995, and was honorably discharged. He was a special public defender for Madison County, 1987-1991. He served as the Hamel Township attorney from 1986 to 1997, and was the village attorney for Hamel, Illinois from 1987 until 2011.

Karen Burkart [picture]
KAREN D. BURKART
Co-Owner & Second Supervising Attorney

Mrs. Burkart is admitted to the Illinois and Missouri Bars, and the Federal District Court of Southern Illinois. She completed her undergraduate degree at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (B.A. Magna Cum Laude). She earned her juris doctorate degree at St. Louis University.

Mrs. Burkart is a member of the Illinois Bar Association and Attorney’s Title Guaranty Fund, Inc. She was a special public defender for Madison County, 1986-1988, She worked as the senior law clerk for Justice Charles Chapman of the Illinois 5th District Appellate Court, 1988-2001. She is the author of “What Color is Your Clerkship” and the co-author of “Sealed Out-of Court Settlements: What’s a Judge to Do?”

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