Michael J. Tuchman

Education & Admissions

Education

• Northern Illinois University, B.S., summa cum laude
• University of Illinois College of Law, J.D.
• Certified Public Accountant

Bar Admissions

• Illinois

Court Admissions

• United States Tax Court
• U.S Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

Memberships

• Leading Lawyers Network

Awards

• The Best Lawyers in America, 2008-2025
• AV Rated, Martindale-Hubbell (Peer review rating: AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5)
• Leading Lawyer, Leading Lawyers Network
• Adjunct Faculty: University of Illinois Chicago Law – LLM Tax Program (1992-2014)

Q&A

• What was your first job?
  I was a busboy at a restaurant in the northern suburbs called Chances R. I worked that job for all four years of high school.

• What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?
  It was from my late client, Bill Alter. At the end of a planning session, he declared that he wasn’t paying his advisors for the solutions to all of his problems, but rather for the flexibility in which to maneuver. Bill taught me that what clients value most is building in flexibility to accomplish objectives rather than just prescribing the manner in which those objectives should be accomplished. A map, instead of a list of right turns and left turns.