Rathje & Woodward LLC is a Wheaton-based law firm that is dedicated to providing the highest quality legal services to the businesses, individuals, and municipalities that it represents.
Our lawyers have the skill and experience to anticipate and understand the business, regulatory, and legal challenges that face our clients. Rathje & Woodward LLC is the oldest law firm in DuPage County, and has been assisting clients with their legal needs for over 65 years.
Rathje & Woodward LLC is a firm of trial lawyers. We have tried hundreds of cases in state and federal courts, and before arbitration panels and administrative agencies.
We have also prosecuted and defended appeals in numerous courts, including the Illinois and United States Supreme Courts.
Our attorneys have handled everything from relatively simple employment disputes to complex, multi-party, multi-billion dollar business valuation and restructuring disputes. We represent clients in all types of disputes, including commercial, real estate, condemnation, construction, environmental, administrative, breach of contract, trade secrets, civil rights, bankruptcy, and restructuring-related litigation. In all of the work we do, Rathje & Woodward LLC strives to continue its long held reputation as one of the Chicago area?s most respected litigation firms.
Rathje & Woodward LLC represents many clients in copyright, trademark, false advertising, and unfair competition actions. We counsel clients on selecting and protecting trademarks, filing and prosecuting trademark applications, renewing trademarks, and handling proceedings in the USPTO. We also counsel clients in the protection of creative works through copyrights, and licensing, confidentiality, and distribution agreements. The firm also has considerable experience in prosecuting and defending claims involving infringement of trademarks or copyrights, false advertising, invasion of privacy, and unfair comp