![]() She also assists clients in implementing compliance programs, launching health innovations and investments, and responding to governmental investigations. Sara has deep experience advising clients on data use and protection under Part 2, HIPAA, GINA, and state privacy laws, such as BIPA and CCPA, and multinational border transmissions. Using her medical research background and HHS experience, Sara advises providers, payors, start-ups, and technology companies, and their investors and stakeholders on digital and novel healthcare regulatory compliance matters, including artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), data assets and privacy, gamification, implantable and wearable devices, and telehealth. Her practice focuses on providing practical counsel on healthcare innovation and complex data privacy matters. Sara’s practice sits at the forefront of health-technology. To conclude, Maxine’s story reminds us to listen to our inner voice (with or without yoga).Sara Helene Shanti is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Chicago office. “They are not only amazing at their jobs, they are supportive and encouraging of other women attorneys,” says Maxine of her mentors. ![]() ![]() Maxine credits Debra Braselton, Kathryn Farmer and her partner in law, Amanda Oliver, as being great influences on her career. A great reward for Maxine is a client whose head is held high after achieving the outcome he or she deserves. Maxine likes using her abilities to help those who feel they are helpless. Maxine was recently selected as a 2018 Super Lawyers and selected as 40 Under 40 Attorneys to Watch by ASLA (American Society of Legal Advocates). Now Maxine has been a practicing family law attorney for over 13 years. That experience solidified her desire to practice only family law. ![]() In order to assure herself that family law was absolutely for her, Maxine clerked for a personal injury firm in 2003 that only lasted two weeks before she started having nightmares. She also received the LADR certificate: Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, and CALI’d her Advanced Family Law class in her last year of law school. She has a psychology background, volunteered in the advanced family law clinic and clerked for Davis Freidman (another preeminent family law firm in Chicago). While in law school, Maxine was fairly confident that family law was her calling. Maxine attended law school at IIT, Chicago-Kent. (Disclaimer: this is not to say other professionals are not fun!). Maxine enjoys having fun! One example: She chose law school over clinical psychology because, “lawyers are more fun.” Many of Maxine’s closest friends are fellow lawyers. How Maxine had time for partying is unclear as, in addition to studying for three degrees, Maxine was busy working as the school videographer and editor of their telecom journal. Maxine likes to take credit for this “honor” bestowed on her alma mater the year she graduated. Of note, Indiana University was voted as the biggest party school in the nation the year Maxine graduated. She attended college at Indiana University (Bloomington) where she studied psychology, communications and business. Maxine is a Chicagoland native, growing up in Oak Park and Downers Grove. Maxine, her husband, and their three kids live in the western suburbs of Chicago. Maxine’s older children are six and four years old. Healthy baby boy Kunz arrived in November 2017 and Maxine was back to work full-time by January 2018. In addition to running a successful family law practice, Maxine spent much of 2017 pregnant with her third child. She additionally handles appeals to the appellate court. Maxine is a certified mediator, guardian ad litem (attorney appointed by the court to determine the best interests of children) and collaborative lawyer. Maxine’s firm is concentrated in family law, which includes divorce, parentage, custody (now allocation of parental responsibilities and parenting time), child support, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, and adoptions. The firm opened with three locations: Chicago, Park Ridge and Elmhurst. Three months later, Maxine resigned from her then-firm and started her own private practice, Weiss-Kunz & Oliver, LLC. One day in 2014, while lying on her mat, Maxine had a vision of a law firm. ![]() You know, the pose where you finally get to rest after an hour of strenuous, often-impossible yogi moves. Maxine Weiss Kunz had her awakening while laying on a yoga mat, practicing the lovely yoga pose of Shavasana. ![]()
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