Melissa N. Bulshteyn is a driven attorney who concentrates her practice in estate planning and estate and trust administration. She was sworn in the fall of 2021 after graduating from Chicago-Kent College of Law where she was vice president and a founding member of the Health Law Society. Melissa also served as a clinician in the Federal Health Litigation Clinic and was executive editor for the Seventh Circuit Review.
During her time as a law clerk and paralegal, Melissa analyzed issues of liability and damage arising from commercial transportation and logistics cases and conducted legal research on cases involving the licensure of healthcare professionals.
Melissa volunteers for an annual 5k for a local cancer charity and is fluent in Russian.
Education
Chicago-Kent College of Law | J.D. | 2021
Lake Forest College | B.A. | 2018
Awards
Cali Honor and Excellence Award for Legal Writing | 2020
Professional Associations + Memberships
Illinois State Bar Association | Member
WealthCounsel | Member
American Bar Association | Member
Chicago Bar Association | Member
Northwest Suburban Estate Planning Council | Member
Chicago Estate Planning Council | Member
DuPage County Estate Planning Council | Member
Published Works
Seventh Circuit Review | Executive Editor, Fall 2020
“Assessment of neuronal ion channels and their alterations in specific mutations of Landau-Kleffner Syndrome”
2018 Eukaryon Undergraduate Journal of Life Sciences | 2018
Languages
Fluent in Russian