Max Elliott
Top rated Estate Planning & Probate attorney in Chicago, Illinois
The Law Offices of Max Elliott, Ltd.
Practice Areas: Estate Planning & Probate, Closely Held Business; view more
Licensed in Illinois since: 2011
Education: DePaul University College of Law
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2022 - 2025 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2017 - 2021 Call today:
877-535-1600
Free Consultation The Law Offices of Max Elliott, Ltd.
401 N Michigan AveSuite 1200
Chicago, IL 60611-3775 Visit website
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Maximillienne "Max" Elliott is the Managing Attorney and Founder of The Law Offices of Max Elliott, Ltd., serving clients in Illinois, New York, Florida, and Texas. Ms. Elliott, who is licensed in Illinois, handles a variety of matters for her clients, including complex and estate planning and administration for multiinational couples, probate, and guardianships. Ms. Elliott also provides advice and counsel to family- and women-owned small businesses.
Before pursuing studies for her legal career, Ms. Elliott spent several years working with Fortune 500 companies in a variety of capacities. She then obtained a position with the Office of the President of the American Bar Association. This experience prompted her to pursue a legal education, and she enrolled at DePaul University College of Law and was admitted to practice in 2011. While in law school and for a period of time after she graduated, Ms. Elliott clerked at a boutique firm, where she assisted the principal attorney in estate planning, probate, family law and regulatory compliance before starting her own practice.
During her relatively brief legal career, Ms. Elliott has earned the high esteem of her fellow professionals, as evidenced by her induction in Marquis Who’sWho® in America; a recipient of Martindale Hubbell's AV-Preeminent, the highest honor bestowed upon lawyers; inclusion as an American Bar Foundation Fellow; a member of the National Black Lawyers - Top 100, and receipt of a 10.0 "Superb" peer review rating through Avvo. She is also a member of the Executive Committee for the Chicago Bar Association's Trust Law Committee, a member of the Chicago Estate Planning Council, sits on the U.S. Trust Council of Influence for Estate Planning in Chicago, is a faculty member for Lawline, IICLE (Illinois Institute of Legal Education), and Esquire-CLE where she presents continuing legal education on estate and business planning for attorneys nationwide, and belongs to the Trusts and Estates Section of the Illinois State Bar Association. Ms. Elliott is frequently asked to speak before groups of fellow professionals on topics ranging from family to estate planning to small law firm marketing techniques.
Practice areas
Estate Planning & Probate, Closely Held BusinessFocus areas
Estate Planning, Guardianships & Conservatorships, Probate & Estate Administration, Trusts, Wills
- 90% Estate Planning & Probate
- 10% Closely Held Business
First Admitted: 2011, Illinois
Professional Webpage: https://maxelliottlaw.com/
- Chicago Estate Planning Councl, 2019
- Faculty, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), 2024
- Chair-Emeritus, Chicago Bar Association Trust Law Committee, 2024
- Association of African American Financial Advisors, Member, Legal Faculty Volunteer
- U.S. Trust, Bank of America Center on Influence on estate planning, Member
- Lawline, Volunteer Faculty Member
- Illinois State Bar Association, Trusts and Estates, Member
- The Bernie Mac Foundation, General Counsel
- American Bar Association, Member
- DePaul University College of Law Career Services, Volunteer
- Chicago Volunteer Legal Service, Pro Bono Probate
- Cook County Bar Association, Volunteer
- Chicago Women’s Health Center, Volunteer
- Legal Advisory Board of Raise the Floor Alliance
- Black Women Lawyers’ Association, Volunteer
- Illinois State Bar Association, Volunteer
- Esquire CLE, Volunteer Faculty Member
- Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), Volunteer faculty member
- Chicago Bar Association, Volunteer
- For more than a century, Marquis Who’sWho® has chronicled the lives of the most accomplished individuals and innovators from every significant field of endeavor, including business, medicine, law, education, art, entertainment, religion, and politics, Marquis Who’sWho® in America, Representing Illinois Lawyers, Marquis Who’sWho®, 2021
- AV-Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell, 2019
- Co-Editor-In-Chief, the DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law, DePaul University College of Law, DePaul University College of Law, 2010
- Recipient of the Top Contributor in Estate Planning Award from Avvo
- Top 100 Black Lawyers by the National Black Lawyers organization
- Editor, The Advocate, DePaul University College of Law
- Northwestern University, 2007
- "Improving Afghanistan Maternal Mortality Rates despite the Lack of the Rule of Law," International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) Human Rights and Rule of Law Review, Fall 2010
- "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What the Reversal of U.S. Asylum Law Means to Advocates and Women Asylum Seekers," The Women's Advocate, Fall 2009
- "Catching Up with International Criminals in the Twenty-First Century: Modifying and Accelerating U.S. Extradition," White Paper, Library of the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda, Spring 2009
- Author, "Ms. Thang, Real Knights Don't Show Up at 3 in the Morning," published by Pocket Books, a Division of Simon & Schuster
- American Bar Foundation Fellow, 2016
- Induction into Marquis Who’sWho® in America. For more than a century, Marquis Who’sWho® has chronicled the lives of the most accomplished individuals and innovators from every significant field of endeavor, including business, medicine, law, education, art, entertainment, religion, and politics, 2021
These comments were made by fellow attorneys during the annual nomination process.
“An astute business professional and attorney. Max has managed to grow a successful small firm from the ground up.”
Office location for Max Elliott
401 N Michigan Ave
Suite 1200
Chicago, IL 60611-3775
Phone: 877-535-1600
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2022 - 2025
- Rising Stars: 2017 - 2021
