James R. Carey serves as an attorney at Levin Schreder & Carey Ltd., a trust and estate dispute resolution and litigation practice in Chicago, Illinois. His services focus on the areas of contested estate, trust and guardianship, estate and gift tax controversies, and fiduciary and estate planning risk management. An attorney with more than two decades of legal experience, James R. Carey is also particularly skilled in mediation and settling matters through trials and appellate courts.

Maintaining an active presence in the legal scene outside his work at Levin Schreder & Carey, he frequently speaks before various organizations such as the Estate Planning Councils of Chicago, the Chicago Bar Association, and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. His presentations cover a range of fiduciary topics. Carey also taught a course on estates at the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law.

A member of the American Bar Association, he is chairman of the Real Property Trust and Estate Section’s (RPTE) Fiduciary Litigation, Ethics, and Malpractice Group and a member of its Task Force on Technology and the Profession. He also formerly held the role of liaison between the RPTE and Dispute Resolution Sections.