Scott Summers

SCOTT SUMMERS

Scott Summers has been an attorney for over twenty years. A sole practitioner since 1990, he concentrates in estate planning, probate, and business. In addition to his law degree from Northern Illinois University, Summers holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a liberal arts degree from the University of Illinois.

Summers also is the author of two “how-to” volumes. Guardianship and Conservatorship: A Handbook for Lawyers appeared in 1996. Advance Health Care Directives: A Handbook for Professionals was released in 2002. Both titles are published by the American Bar Association.

Throughout his twenty-nine years of residency in rural Harvard, Summers has been active in civic affairs. Since April, 2005 he has served as an elected trustee at McHenry County College. Scott was a member of the Board of Visitors of NIU's College of Law between 1997 and 2004. During the 1980s, he was treasurer for three nonprofits: Harvard Community Memorial Hospital, Hospice for McHenry County, and a church in Woodstock, IL. Before becoming a lawyer, Summers worked as an executive in the public sector.