Mark R. Cahan - Chicago, IL
Lawyers in Chicago, IL
Suite 2600 221 N Lasalle Chicago, IL 60601 - 1517
Updated: 02/15/2026
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Hired Law firm 2021-2022I am rating myself. 5 stars!! Your site shows no venue to dispute a review. To keep it simple I did a closing for a nice old lady. Unfortunately, she passed. After that, several people contacted me to send the 10K in prop tax escrow funds of that I was holding. I refused to release without a court order. She also told me several times that she will not give any sales proceeds to her children which I assumed they were the ones calling.
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Hired Law firm 2020Mr. Cahan handled the sale of a building in chicago where he took money from an escrow account and refused to pay it back. After speaking to him, he wouldn't answer why he wouldn't refund the money. Then he demanded that we get an attorney to handle the issue. After then hiring an attorney, he refused to speak to the attorney claiming he had an attorney client agreement with another private individual that was a heir to the building that was sold. However, both the client in question, and the attorney representing him/her couldn't get him to both refund the money from escrow, and or explain why he is refusing to do so. After hiring a second attorney to deal with the issue, Mr. Cahan's reponse was that if we wanted him to refund the money that was owed, we should be "nice" to him or take him to court. So we are now in the process of taking him to court over funds that were supposed to he refunded from escrow. Even the buyer (and his attorney) of this property agreed the money should be refunded, but they didn't know why he was refusing.
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