Email: pkeller@ancelglink.com

Member: American Bar Association; Illinois Bar Association, Local Government Section Council; Chicago Bar Association; Illinois Municipal League, Home Rule Attorneys Committee; Illinois Institute for Local Government Law

Education: B.A., Albion College; J.D., Wayne State University Law School

Practice Areas: Municipal Law, Zoning, Tax Increment Finance, Eminent Domain, Economic Development, Labor and Employment, Admiralty.

Bio: Paul Keller is a partner at Ancel Glink Diamond Bush DiCianni & Krafthefer, PC. Paul has served as Village Attorney for Deer Park, City Attorney for Braidwood, and special counsel to a number of municipalities, including Glen Ellyn, Carol Stream, Des Plaines, Bellwood, Lyons, Round Lake Beach, Zion and Normal. He also represents the Palos Hills Police Pension Board. He was in-house City Attorney for the City of Park Ridge for twenty years before joining Ancel Glink.

Paul concentrates in economic development, tax increment finance, land use and zoning, eminent domain and general municipal corporate law. He has represented many municipalities in regard to establishing TIF districts, negotiating and drafting redevelopment agreements, eminent domain litigation, annexation, establishing special service areas, and other land use issues. He has been lead counsel in litigation relating to zoning and land use, construction, annexation, eminent domain, police powers, employment, taxation and many other matters, and has represented government agencies in the Illinois Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court.

Formerly a police officer, Paul served as legal advisor to the Detroit Police Department, as consultant to the Police Foundation and as national coordinator of police legal advisor programs at the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Washington, D.C. He taught law and police administration at American University and the Traffic Institute of Northwestern University, and practiced labor and employment law as general counsel to regional associations of police, fire and public works employees.

He is admitted to the bars of the United States Supreme Court, Illinois Supreme Court, Michigan Supreme Court, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the District of Columbia Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar) and the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

He is a regular speaker at seminars, is the author of numerous articles, and is co-author of the chapters on Tax Increment Finance and Police and Fire Departments in the Municipal Law and Practice manual published by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Edcuation.

He is a SCUBA instructor and has litigated numerous cases involving historic shipwrecks. He plays guitar, banjo and other folk instruments, and has appeared on stage with Breadline Theatre Company and First Folio Theatre in Chicago.

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