Ms. Buhrfiend is a member with the firm, representing individuals, high-net-worth families and business owners, and concentrates her practice on estate planning, estate administration, taxation, succession planning and other general corporate matters.

Ms. Buhrfiend assists her clients in preparing custom revocable trusts, wills, irrevocable trusts, limited partnership, limited liability company agreements, shareholder agreements and various other wealth-planning and corporate agreements. She also has substantial experience in assisting individuals and business owners with asset protection strategies, corporate recapitalizations, installment sales and other tax-planning techniques and tax-related issues.

Ms. Burhfiend draws upon her experience as a certified public accountant (CPA) to structure estate plans, and to review and manage complex estate and gift and income tax returns and valuation issues.

After college, Ms. Buhrfiend worked in public accounting at a large public accounting in Chicago, Illinois. After law school and prior to joining the firm, Ms. Buhrfiend practiced law at Mayor Brown, LLP in Chicago, Illinois as a transactional income tax attorney (focusing on partnership tax issues) and enhanced her practice as a tax, estate planning and corporate attorney at a firm in the Chicago suburbs.

She has served in several leadership positions with the DuPage County Bar Association and the Fox Valley Estate Planning Council. She is also a frequent speaker on various tax, estate planning and corporate-related topics.

Ms. Buhrfiend resides in Elmhurst with her husband and three children. Personally, Tricia enjoys entertaining and spending time with friends and family. She also enjoys visiting her parents’ farm in Iowa and watching college football games.