Managing Director
BA - Georgetown University
JD - George Washington University
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Tim Leighton counsels clients in Central Illinois and metropolitan Washington, DC as a lawyer and Certified Financial Planner™ practitioner on trust, estate, business planning, succession, transactions, charitable planning, and tax matters.
Most business clients are closely held enterprises and tax-exempt organizations. They rely on Tim for formation, transition, transaction, employment, and development needs. Tim also helps with strategies to recruit, retain, and reward key people. Through the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in Illinois, the National Arbitration Forum, and privately, Tim helps resolve business and financial disputes as mediator and arbitrator.
He helps clients find better ways to secure peace of mind and to preserve, protect, and grow assets. Tim serves families with meaningful net worths and others with dependency and guardianship concerns, such as school-aged children and people with disabilities. As trustee, he implements client priorities while managing substantial assets. Clients also rely on the firm for trust administration and probate.
Tim has taught Insurance at Illinois State University and Probate in its Paralegal Studies program, and Investments and Introduction to Risk Management at Illinois Wesleyan University. Tim was Director of Business and Estate Planning for Northwestern Mutual Financial Network. He frequently partners with financial professionals in advising clients.
Tim earned his law degree from George Washington University while working as a Congressional staffer and association executive. He earned his honors baccalaureate from Georgetown University, financing his education as consultant in the tax-exempt community. He was a White House Intern in the Office of Intergovernmental Relations.
Bar Admissions include state and federal courts in Illinois, Maryland, Virginia, and District of Columbia, plus the U.S. Supreme Court. Tim is immediate past chair of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Business Advice & Financial Planning Section Council.
In the community, Tim is Chair of the Easter Seals Bloomington Community Board and Treasurer of OSF St. Joseph (hospital) Foundation Council. He serves on the boards of Illinois Wesleyan University Associates, McLean County’s “Recovery Starts Today” (Drug Court), and Illinois Prairie Community Foundation. For Community Players Theatre, he is General Counsel. Tim was President of the Bloomington-Normal chapter of National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Treasurer of McLean County Bar Association, Special Counsel to the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., and president of Convention II, Inc. (America's model constitutional convention of high school students).
Tim has led teams in development, financial management, human resources, risk management, and strategic planning. He has helped some forty non-profit organizations secure tax exemption determinations, define business structures, negotiate contracts, and manage other challenges. He enjoys the overall direction and details of organizational dynamics, transitions, management, compliance, and advising Boards and officers on strategic planning.
The Leightons make their home in Bloomington, Illinois. Debra Leighton is an active hospice and church volunteer. Kathryn, a graduate of American University, teaches high school social studies in Falls Church, Virginia while pursuing her master's degree at George Mason University. Caroline, a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University, teaches high school math in Urbana, Illinois. Grace studies Church Music as an Army ROTC cadet at Olivet Nazarene University. |
