Mr. Wilson brings litigation and commercial clients an insider’s deal-making focus to their legal challenges. He approaches every issue with a wealth of legal and corporate insight and a priority on expanding every client’s opportunities. He delivers exceptional, detail-driven analysis to drive realistic and measurable results. Clients regularly rely on his advisory and strategic vision to supplement their existing internal and external resources. A multifaceted leader with a deep understanding of C-suite business imperatives (including finance, insurance, data security, technology, media), Mr. Wilson has integrated these with a strong and extensive legal background, which has included both in-depth transactional expertise and complex litigation experience.

Over 30 years ago, Bill Wilson began his legal career alongside his dad, James T. Wilson, and practiced with him until his passing in 2008. Bill carries on the legacy of compassionate, expert legal counsel concentrating in the areas of Elder Law, Estate Planning, Business Succession, Medicaid Planning and Estate Planning for Families that have Children with Disabilities. Bill feels a “profound obligation to provide counsel that ensures the safety of the hard-earned assets of families.” He extends that obligation outside of his practice, too. Currently, he serves as President of the Aging Care Connections Board, a not-for-profit agency in LaGrange, Illinois, that services the needs of older adults, as well as a member of the Economic Development and Strategic Planning Committees. He is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the Chicago Bar Association Committees on Trust Law, Asset Protection and Elder Law. He is also a member of the Illinois State Bar Association Standing Committee on Law Office Management and Economics. He is the past president of Helping Hand Center, an agency serving persons with disabilities, and also of the local chapter of the American Cancer Society. He currently serves on the board of the LaGrange, Illinois Kiwanis International organization. Bill is a charter member of the Academy of Special Needs Planners and is also a guardian and trustee for a disabled adult. He received his B.A. in history at the University of Texas at Austin, with high honors, and graduated from Northwestern School of Law. He continues to present seminars on Elder Law, Estate Planning, Asset Protection and Special Needs Planning throughout the Chicago area. He has also written several articles on these topics and has been quoted in US News and World Report and in 2011 was named one of Chicago’s Top Wealth Managers as listed in Chicago Magazine. Bill lives in LaGrange, Illinois, with his wife, Julie, and son, Glenn. He enjoys coaching basketball and training hunting dogs, and he is a member of the Civil War Roundtable and the Union League Club.

MATTHEW L. WILSON is a partner at Martin Law and has practiced Pennsylvania workers’ compensation law exclusively for more than 25 years. He started his career representing agencies with the City of Philadelphia, major insurance carriers and self-insured corporations. After Mr. Wilson’s affiliation with two major defense firms, he was recruited by his partners in 1993 to protect the rights of injured workers. In the spring of 2015, Mr. Wilson became a certified specialist in Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation by the PA Bar Association’s Section on Workers’ Compensation Law as authorized by the PA Supreme Court.* He frequently lectures to other lawyers, doctors and insurance groups on workers’ compensation in a variety of subject areas. For the last 12 years he has co-authored the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Workers’ Compensation Practice and Procedure Manual, which is known among attorneys and judges as the “bible” on workers’ compensation law. Since 1997, Mr. Wilson has been a featured speaker at the biennial “Tough Problems in Workers’ Compensation” seminar. He has also presented multiple lectures at the spring and fall meetings of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Section as well as the statewide biannual practice and procedure program. Mr. Wilson has served on the Workers’ Compensation Law Section Council of the Pennsylvania Bar Association since 2007 and is a past Chair of the organization. He is an active member of the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Associations as well as the Workplace Injury Litigation Group. Wilson was inducted into The College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers in 2011. He is a member of the committee that implemented and manages a ground breaking certification process for Pennsylvania workers’ compensation attorneys. In 2017, Mr. Wilson was named Best Lawyers 2017 Workers Compensation Law - Claimants, “Lawyer of the Year” in Philadelphia.