Bio
Ms. Drew concentrates her practice in estate planning, probate and trust administration, and guardianships. She advises clients regarding estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax issues, as well as non-tax issues, such as planning for retirement, providing for family members with special needs, and planning for varied family situations. She prepares wills and trusts of all levels of complexity and handles estate and trust administration including litigated matters. Amber is the Treasurer for the Fox Valley Estate Planning Council, is on the Advisory Board of the Naperville Area Human Society, is past Chair of the Illinois State Bar Association’s (ISBA) Elder Law Section Council, a member of the ISBA’s Trusts and Estates Council, and is on the Northern Illinois Food Bank’s Planned Giving Advisors Council. She is a former member of the DuPage Foundation’s Next Generation Initiatives Steering Committee.
Prior to joining CCM, Amber worked as an estates and trusts attorney for many years at a law firm in Urbana, Illinois. She was a mediator with the Sixth Circuit’s Foreclosure Mediation Program. Amber served as Treasurer of the Champaign County Bar Association for most of that time, as well as spending many years on the board of the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum. Amber continues to engage in philanthropic work in connection with and outside of her work at CCM.
