Makedonka Baloski
Kelleher + Holland, LLC
Makedonka “Miki” Baloski is a highly accomplished attorney with extensive experience across a wide range of legal disciplines, including estate planning, probate and trust administration, elder law, real estate transactions, and contested guardianships. With over two decades of legal expertise, she is a trusted advocate for individuals, families, and businesses navigating complex legal challenges. At Kelleher + Holland, LLC, Miki focuses on estate and trust administration, delivering comprehensive solutions tailored to her clients’ unique needs.
Miki’s experience spans litigation and transactional law, having defended multinational corporations in toxic tort and product liability cases, assisted clients with business disputes, handling probate matters, creating estate plans and handling real estate transactions. She is also recognized for her contributions to legal education, co-authoring chapters in notable legal publications on elder law and estate planning topics.
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Free Consultation
- Illinois
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- Indiana
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- United States District Court for Northern Illinois
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- United States District Court for Northern Indiana
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- United States District Court for Southern Indiana
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- English: Spoken, Written
- Macedonian: Spoken, Written
- Attorney
- Kelleher + Holland, LLC
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- Attorney
- DDV Law, Ltd
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- Attorney
- Navigant Law Group, LLC
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- Valparaiso University School of Law
- J.D. (2000)
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- Honors: Corpus Juris Secundum
- Activities: Law Review, Jessup Moot Court
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- Indiana University - Indiana University-Bloomington
- B.A. | Double Major: History & Anthropology. Russian & Eastern European Concentration
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- Activities: Docent, Wylie House Historic House Museum
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- Corpus Juris Secundum Award
- Valpariaso University School of Law
- Selected for most overall contributions to Valpariso Univeristy School of Law
- State Bar of Illinois
- Member
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- IRELA
- Member
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- District 23 Elementary PTO
- Co-President
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- Chilton Yambert Porter formerly Chilton Yambert Porter & Young LLP
- Associate Attorney
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- Activities: Civil Litigation
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- Staff Counsel (Safeco Insurance Co)
- Staff Counsel
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- Activities: Handled cases involving construction defects, auto & premises liability, Indiana wrongful death, intentional torts, federal statutes pertaining to Native American art, appeals, etc
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