Annemarie E. Kill

Partner and Founding Member

Annemarie E. Kill is a partner with Avery Camerlingo Kill, LLC, focusing her practice in the areas of family law, QDROs (Qualified Domestic Relations Orders), QILDROs (Qualified Illinois Domestic Relations Order), and employment law.  She is a graduate of Illinois State University (B.S. cum laude, 1992) and the DePaul University College of Law (J.D. 1995).  She is admitted to practice in Illinois and before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court She is also a member of the Federal Trial Bar.

Ms. Kill successfully represents clients in both family law and employment law matters, and has received extensive recognition in both fields. Most recently, she was selected by her peers as a 2010 “Illinois Leading Lawyer.” She was selected as an "Illinois Super Lawyer" in 2007, 2008 and 2010 in family law and plaintiff’s employment litigation.  Published in Chicago Magazine, Super Lawyers are the top 5 percent of Illinois lawyers as chosen by their peers based on a survey of more than 55,000 attorneys from across the state.  In addition to extensive litigation experience, Ms. Kill has been specifically trained on the process of collaborative law.  She is a designated Fellow of the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois, and a member of the International Association of Collaborative Professionals. 

Ms. Kill is very active in the work of the bar associations. She was elected by her peers to a three year term on the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) Assembly, which is the policy making body of the ISBA. Ms. Kill has served on the ISBA Women and the Law Committee since 2000, and currently serves as its Chair. She is also currently the Vice-Chair of the ISBA Diversity Leadership Council. Ms. Kill is a Fellow of the Illinois Bar Foundation, and was previously appointed to the ISBA Young Lawyers Division Section Council and the CBA/WBAI Joint Task Force on Issues Affecting Women as they Age. Ms. Kill is also a member of the Chicago Bar Association (CBA), the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI), and the National Employment Lawyers Association.

Ms. Kill has also been selected into the membership of Mensa, which is an international organization of those who score in the top 2% of the population on an approved intelligence test.

She has served as a board member and President of the Board of Directors of the GRANDFamilies Program of Chicago, and is an affiliate member of the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries.She also volunteers through the Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic and the Center for Disability and Elder Law, both in Chicago. Ms. Kill also serves on the Board of the DePaul University College of Law Family Law Institute.

Ms. Kill’s expertise is recognized and she is a frequent author and speaker on family law and employment law matters, most often involving the division of retirement benefits incident to divorce.  The following are representative articles and engagements:

• “All You Need Is Love. . . And the Right Legislation: The Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Unions Act (House Bill 1826),” ISBA Diversity Matters Newsletter, Summer, 2008.
• “QDRO Creation in Illinois” (authored selected chapters), National Business Institute,   Fall, 2004
• “Grandparents Raising Grandchildren—What They Should Know,” ISBA Women and the Law Newsletter “The Catalyst,” Spring, 2005
• “The United States as a Third World Country,”  ISBA Women and the Law Newsletter “The Catalyst,” Spring, 2007
• “Answering the Call of Our Changing Society:  The Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Unions Act”,  ISBA Women and the Law Newsletter “The Catalyst,” Fall, 2007
• “QDRO Pitfalls and Pointers, What Divorce Lawyers Should Know,” quoted in Illinois Bar Journal, January, 2005
• Guest Lecturer, DePaul University College of Law, Advanced Issues in Family Law, QDROs
• Speaker, “QDRO Creation in Illinois,” National Business Institute, November, 2004
• Speaker, “Cracking the Pension Code,” Illinois Legal Aid Advocates Conference November, 2005
• Guest Lecturer, DePaul University College of Law, Issues in Family Law, QDROs, Spring, 2005 and Spring, 2006
• Speaker, “Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and Related Issues,” Illinois Paralegal Association Education Seminar, November, 2005
• Coordinator, “Hot Topics in Domestic Violence” Illinois State Bar Association CLE, September, 2006
• Speaker, “Qualified Medical Child Support Orders,” Northwest Suburban Bar Association Family Law Annual CLE, January, 2007

Email: akill@averycamerlingokill.com