Bio
Michael Biederstadt is a certified mediator, collaborative divorce and estate planning attorney in Illinois. He is a graduate of Loyola University and earned his Juris Doctorate in 2½ years from Valparaiso School of Law. From 2005 through 2007, he worked for the Illinois State’s Attorney prosecuting class X felonies, a civil Judge and the Indiana Supreme Court to re-write the statewide jury instructions, representing Olympic and college athletes, and the Indiana Family Law Clinic. In 2007, he began working for a boutique family law firm in the Chicagoland suburbs. In 2014, he assisted a former client in co-founding Rise From the Ashes, a non-profit providing legal assistance to victims of domestic violence in Illinois. In 2016, he formed his own law firm, Biederstadt Law, P.C., and in 2023 he founded Family Wealth and Legacy Legal Solutions (FWLLS) to better serve Illinois’ families, their children and the legacy they will leave behind.
