Contact:  Sydney Iglitzen
312.899.1676
siglitzen@gouldratner.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 11, 2010

CHICAGO – Gould & Ratner LLP, legal and business advisors to entrepreneurs and closely held family-owned, middle market and Fortune 500 companies, has named Sydney Iglitzen as Director of Marketing & Business Development. 

Ms. Iglitzen was previously Public Relations Manager at intellectual property firm Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione in Chicago.  Prior to joining Brinks, she was the Marketing Director for a mid-size Chicago-based corporate law firm and was Assistant Press Secretary to two Chicago mayors and two Illinois Attorneys General.  Ms. Iglitzen was also an Account Executive at the global public relations firm Burson-Marsteller.

Ms. Iglitzen is a past President (2008-2009) of the Midwest chapter of the Legal Marketing Association where she has been a member since 1997.  She served on the chapter's Board of Directors and as Program Chair for several years where she implemented monthly programming for the organization's Chicago members and personally expanded programming to the legal marketing communities in Indianapolis, Milwaukee and the Detroit area.  She currently serves on the Membership Committees of LMA International and LMA Midwest and on the LMA Midwest Program Committee.

For more than 70 years, Gould & Ratner LLP has provided comprehensive legal counsel and business advice to sophisticated entrepreneurs, family businesses and middle market companies operating in a range of industries, including manufacturing and distribution, technology and telecommunications, finance, services, real estate, construction, food & beverage, gaming and emerging new economy areas, to name a few.  Gould & Ratner's attorneys have handled more than $8 billion of transactions and an average of 25 merger/acquisition and 20 venture capital deals per year in the last decade.  Gould & Ratner LLP acts as General Counsel for domestic and international companies with annual sales in excess of $1 billion and has structured sophisticated and complex domestic and foreign transactions as well as tried and settled thousands of lawsuits and workouts.