As head of Schwartz Cooper’s Business, Tax and Estate Planning practice, Nancy Livingston concentrates her work in the areas of estate planning, probate, elder law, disability law, taxation, business succession planning and general corporate law. Ms. Livingston provides integrated estate, business, and tax planning for individuals, families, and closely-held businesses.  

Ms. Livingston counsels high net-worth individuals and family groups in all facets of estate planning, including estate, gift, generation skipping, income tax planning and asset protection. She also advises closely held and family-owned businesses on structuring and implementing lifetime and testamentary transfers of wealth; setting up partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations; planning for succession, including buy-sell and other shareholder agreements; establishing and operating family limited partnerships; creating asset protection strategies; counseling, drafting and implementing wills, trusts, powers of attorney for health care and property; probate and trust administration; preparing and implementing prenuptial and postnuptial agreements; structuring and implementing gifts to charitable trusts, private foundations and other charitable entities; and assisting in resolution of controversies with the Internal Revenue Service, including Tax Court litigation, offers in compromise, and audits. 

Ms Livingston is an Adjunct Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she currently teaches a course on estate planning in Kent’s Graduate Tax Program, and has previously taught a class on wills and trusts in their J.D. Program. Prior to joining Schwartz Cooper, Ms. Livingston was an Assistant Professor of Clinical Practice at Chicago-Kent College of Law.  

Bar Admissions & Memberships

• Illinois
• Colorado
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• United States Tax Court

Education

• J.D. - DePaul University, 1983 (with honors)
• LL.M. in Taxation - New York University, 1984
• B.A. - Wellesley College, 1975