Schmiedeskamp Robertson Neu & Mitchell Lawyers - Quincy IL

James Rapp

James A. Rapp

James A. Rapp

James A. Rapp serves a wide range of clients with a depth and breadth of legal experience. His primary focuses are estate and trust planning and administration, elder law, real estate, business organization and succession planning, education law, agriculture law, and banking law.

Jim has extensive experience in estate, trust, and business planning, as well as real estate matters. He represents individuals and businesses, many from the agricultural community. Jim represents businesses in their general operations, transfers, and acquisitions. Among them is a worldwide manufacturer of agricultural equipment, along with many regional and local retailers, construction companies, design firms, service organizations, banks, and many others. Jim also handles real estate matters, whether residential, farm, commercial, or industrial.

Nationally-recognized in education law, Jim represents colleges and school districts, in addition to individual teachers, parents, and students. With special interest in school safety, he has twice represented the National School Safety Center before the United States Supreme Court, written extensively in this area, and was a speaker at the National Press Club following the tragic Columbine High School shooting. He was also invited to consult with former Secretary of Education Dick Riley on school safety issues. Jim has been a hearing officer for the Illinois State Board of Education in teacher dismissal matters.

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