I help clients protect their most valuable business assets: their ideas and inventions, their purpose, and their products.
I help clients protect themselves and their assets through a combination of intellectual property management, business planning, and estate planning.
I help business owners start and run their businesses successfully.
I help clients keep their focus on the core parts of the business, the things that made them want to do it in the first place, by making sure their foundations and legal strategies are strong and tailored to their unique needs. My focus on clients’ legal issues takes that off their list of things that keep them up at night.
My goal for each client is to make sure I’ve helped them take the right steps to protect what they’ve worked hard to achieve, succeed in future endeavors, and have peace of mind that planning has been done correctly and with their individual goals in mind.
How do I do it well? I’m not just an attorney. Like my clients, I’m a business owner. That helps me understand my clients and their issues and challenges. Those are two very different hats to wear, and I love both of them. Most attorneys don’t enjoy running a business so don’t do it and don’t know what it’s like to be a business owner. I do.
I know what it’s like to build a business from scratch. I understand the joys and the fears.
I market my practice, so I understand the importance of branding. I help clients make sure their business names are available and able to be registered for their own protection and ability to keep others from copying. I make sure clients’ logos and slogans serve them well, not cause problems because they’re too similar to something someone else is already using.
Knowing I’ve helped someone make their business successful is what I love about what I do.
I grew up in Champaign, Illinois and am a proud 1999 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law.
I graduated from Uni High in Urbana in 1987, then graduated from the University of Illinois in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in English and a minor in Japanese. I worked as an editor for a few years, then returned to school out of a desire to do something more interesting and meaningful.
I graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1999, where I worked as a Westlaw student representative helping my classmates learn how to run effective searches, a graduate assistant to a business law professor, an intern for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, an intern for a local environmental lawyer, and a proofreader for one of my favorite professors.
While in law school I also started working for my father, Peter Feuille, as an assistant for his arbitration and mediation practice. He was the Director of the University of Illinois School of Labor and Industrial Relations from 1994 to 2008 and taught some labor law classes to my fellow law students. His emphasis on fairness and ethics was a huge influence on how I practice law. He also passed on to me his love for the Rolling Stones in particular and rock and roll in general.
My first job out of law school was as an associate for a small firm in Knoxville, Tennessee where I gained experience in business law and had a view of the Tennessee River and the Smoky Mountains I still miss. I then practiced in a consulting firm in Chicago on reinsurance claims analysis and superfund site analysis. I later ran the consulting practice with another Julie. I then practiced at Alston + Bird in Atlanta in the securities litigation department. I returned to Chicago while I finished up a master’s degree in computer science, then moved back to Champaign in 2014 to be near my family and start my practice.
My mother, Susan, passed on to me her love of English history and poking around castles, and when she’s not leading me on a grand adventure, she is my right-hand extraordinaire. In uncountable ways, I could not do what I do without her.
I love living in my medium-sized hometown city while being able to practice nationally. I also love being a small business owner. Having my own practice has been the most rewarding part of my career, and it helps me understand many of the joys, frustrations, freedoms, and fears my clients face, as well as the many demands on their time and money.
Susan is my Paralegal and Intake Specialist Extraordinaire.
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