Bio
Colleen L. Sahlas is the managing partner of The Law Offices of Hoy & Sahlas, LLC, a father-daughter law firm, founded by David E. Hoy. For 24 years, she has focused her legal practice in estate planning and decedents’ estates including probate in Cook and DuPage Counties.
Mrs. Sahlas is the 2024-2025 Chair of the Trusts and Estates Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association, which is influential in proposing changes to State legislation, and educates Illinois attorneys through its newsletter and continuing legal education courses. She received a 5 Year Service Award in 2022 as the former Managing Editor of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Trusts and Estates Newsletter.
Mrs. Sahlas also served on a 6-member Legislative Committee with the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association which successfully amended the Illinois Residential Real Property Disclosure Act and was signed into law in May, 2022.
From 2020-2022, she served on the Board of Directors of the DuPage County Estate Planning Council and has been a member since 2016.
An author and speaker, Mrs. Sahlas has presented webinars with the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) and with the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA). She has authored materials for the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) including Attorney Fee Service Agreements with IICLE's Formulaw Library. She has been published in the American Bar Association’s Probate & Property Magazine, and had numerous articles published in the Illinois State Bar Association’s Trusts and Estates Newsletter and the Illinois State Bar Association’s Real Property Newsletter.
