Kathryn G. Shores

Kathryn Shores focuses her practice on estate and trust administration, litigation, and planning, including a focus on guardianship administration and litigation. Ms. Shores has successfully litigated matters in both state and federal court, and regularly appears in courts in Lake, Cook, and McHenry Counties. In her guardianship and elder law practice, Ms. Shores knows that planning and caring for a disabled or aging family member can be both overwhelming and emotional; therefore, it is her goal to approach every matter with diligence and compassion. Ms. Shores takes pride in listening to and understanding each unique client's situation, in order to obtain the best result possible for the client. Ms. Shores is a nationally Certified Guardian and currently chairs the Lake County Bar Association's Guardianship Help Desk.

• Partner

• Gordon & Karr LLP, Associate Attorney, 2009 - 2013
• State Attorney's Office, Sixth Judicial Circuit, FL, Assistant State Attorney, 2007 - 2008
• Languages
• English

• Speaker, Introduction to Guardianship (LCBA Guardian Ad Litem Training), 2016 - Present
• Speaker, Reducing Fiduciary Liability (IICLE Elder Law Short Course), 2016 - Present
• Speaker, Guardianship Inventories and Accountings (ISBA Guardianship), 2015 - Present
• Speaker, Interstate Guardianship Issues (IICLE Elder Law Short Course), 2017 - Present

• Guardianship Help Desk, 2014 - Present
• PADS of Lake County, 2012 - 2015

• Florida, 2007
• Illinois, 2008
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 2008

• National Association of Elder Law Attorneys, 2015 - Present
• Lake County Bar Association, 2013 - Present
• National Guardianship Association, 2015 - Present
• National Certified Guardian, 2015 - Present
• Lake County Bar Association, Guardianship Help Desk, 2016 - Present (Chairman)