Ronald A. "Ron" Damashek

Ron Damashek recognizes that litigation is a place very few people want to be, but all too many people end up. Operating from that mindset makes Ron a practical lawyer, working to get to the bottom line quickly and enabling his clients to make educated, cost-effective decisions. Regardless of whether the path leads to settlement, arbitration, or trial, Ron stands side-by-side with each client, prepared and ready to succeed.

As counsel to secured creditors, Ron regularly litigates and works out troubled loans, resolves disputes with borrowers, competing lien claimants and loan participants, and advises clients as to their contractual rights and obligations under loan documents, customer account and service agreements, inter-creditor agreements, and acquisition agreements. He has foreclosed hundreds of commercial mortgages on properties ranging from downtown office buildings to a suburban golf course, represented secured creditors in bankruptcy litigation, and represented court appointed receivers. In addition, Ron and his team document and enforce MSB relationships, involving multi-entity businesses across multiple jurisdictions and, where necessary, high dollar lender syndications.

Ron also has an extensive real estate dispute resolution practice. Ron represents title insurance companies and their policy holders, title insurance agents, banks, condominium associations, developers, property owners, and contractors. His cases run the gamut from resolving disputes involving wire fraud, lien priority, lien validity, title ownership, equitable and conventional subrogation, easements, property boundaries, mechanic’s liens, policy coverage (including rendering coverage opinions), defalcations, title and construction escrows, and alleged mortgage fraud.

Ron regularly helps developers, property owners, and contractors navigate and resolve real estate problems, including controversies involving municipalities, development partners, adjoining property owners, contractors, landlord-tenant relationships, and mechanic’s lien claims. He represents condominium associations in preparing documents and resolving issues concerning state law, condominium declarations, by-laws, rules and regulations, turnover, elections, non-payment of assessments, and association contracts.

Ron actively promotes and protects the interests of the state-wide title industry and its participants by representing the Illinois Land Title Association in amicus curiae briefs and direct proceedings to enforce state law, such as compelling the Cook County Recorder of Deeds to record documents concerning the rights of heirs and challenging the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation’s title producer disclosure procedures.