Attorney Profile
Who could forget that TV legal drama from the 1980’s, L.A. Law? “I really enjoyed that show,” admits Mike Kraft, “and as I had no family members, relatives or close family friends who worked in the legal community, it was that TV program that first instilled in me the idea to become a business lawyer.”
Mike attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, attaining a double major in economics and political science and being inducted into the national honor societies, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Lambda Delta. While enrolled there, he played on the university’s varsity baseball team under legendary coach Augie Garrido, and he was a member of the 1989 Big Ten Championship team his junior year, repeating as Big Ten champs his senior year. While terms like “teamwork” or “team-building” may be nothing more than euphemisms to some, that’s not the case for Mike. He counts his time playing on championship teams as a true learning experience, carrying over to his profession as a lawyer. He’ll tell you that a lawyer and his client need to work together as a team both to avoid and to solve problems.
As a business lawyer at Quinn Johnston, Mike feels fortunate to pair with some of the best and brightest owners of independent businesses in central Illinois. He divides his time between work in the courtroom on litigated business, employment or probate matters, and counseling clients in the office on corporate formation, sales of businesses, employment issues, commercial real estate transactions, banking matters and estate plans.
Mike and his wife Melissa have four children.
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