Adam Toosley

Mr. Toosley focuses his practice on real estate litigation, zoning and land use, construction and financial services litigation.  Over the course of his career, he has represented owners, landlords, condominium associations, lenders and all parties in the construction chain, handling all aspects of real estate-related disputes, including construction defect cases, payment and landlord-tenant disputes as well as real estate foreclosures, mechanic’s lien cases and fraud and business tort claims in state and federal court as well as in mediations and arbitrations throughout the United States.

Honors & Awards

• Illinois Super Lawyer “Rising Star” (2010-2014)
• Illinois Super Lawyer in Commercial Litigation, Banking, Business Litigation, and Construction  (2015-2021)
• Illinois Leading Lawyer (2017-2020)

News & Interviews

• 2019 Issue of Leading Lawyers Magazine for Real Estate, Construction & Environmental Edition
• Draft Documents: How A Freeborn Partner Is Helping A Nonprofit Brew Up History

Presentations

• Moderator at the 5th Annual Bisnow: Chicago Construction & Development: The Latest Projects Transforming Chi-Town’s Skyline (August 29, 2017)

Publications

• “Owners and operators of ATMs take notice or pay the price for Automated Terrible Misfortune,” Illinois State Bar Association, Business and Securities Law (January 2006) (co-author)
• “Forum Selection Clauses in Equipment Leases,” Equipment Leasing and Financing, (May 25, 2011)
• “Representing the Parties to a Construction Project 2015,” Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Chapter Author, (September 2015)
• “Client Alert: Force Majeure Clauses in Construction and Other Commercial Contracts in the Age of COVID-19,” Illinois State Bar Association, Construction Law (April 2020) (co-author)
• “Representing the Parties to a Construction Project 2020,” Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Chapter Author, (September 2020)