Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins

Name

Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins

Legal name

Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins, Ltd.

Website

https://ktjlaw.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1935

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (54111)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Personal Injury & Insurance Defense (BPAHAAAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Employment & Labor Law (BPAHAAAD), Family & Private Client (Trusts & Estates) Law (BPAHAAAK)

Keywords

• Municipal legal services
• Local government law
• School district counsel
• Special district representation
• Illinois municipal law

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Legal Services: Comprehensive legal services to local governmental entities including cities, villages, school districts, local libraries, library districts, library systems, fire protection districts and other special districts. Also provides general legal services to private corporations and individuals in corporate, environmental, real estate, zoning and wealth planning and business succession law.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Klein, Thorpe & Jenkins, Ltd. is a full-service Illinois law firm providing comprehensive legal counsel to local governmental entities (cities, villages, school districts, libraries, library districts, fire protection districts, and other special districts) and to private corporations and individuals. The firm operates through 11 practice areas including municipal law, school law, library law, special districts, labor and employment, election law, environmental law, real estate, construction, corporate, and wealth and succession planning.

Product overview

Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins is a full-service Illinois law firm serving local governments and private clients. The firm operates as a unified legal services practice organized into 11 distinct practice areas: Construction Law, Corporate Law, Election Law, Environmental Law, Labor and Employment, Library Law, Municipal Law, Real Estate Law, School Law, Special Districts, and Wealth and Succession Planning. These practice areas function as the firm's core service modules, with attorneys specializing across these domains to provide comprehensive legal counsel to municipalities, school districts, corporations, and individuals throughout Illinois.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Municipal Law Comprehensive legal services for Illinois municipalities covering home rule authority, finance and economic development, zoning, liquor law, Open Meetings Act compliance, municipal litigation, and representation of cities, villages, and towns as general counsel and special counsel.
• School Law Legal services for Illinois school districts covering school finance, special education, student issues, FOIA/OMA compliance, board procedures, and property tax matters.
• Library Law Legal representation for Illinois libraries and library districts covering finance, property issues, tax litigation, board practices, labor and employment, FOIA/OMA compliance, and election law.
• Special Districts Legal representation for Illinois special districts including fire protection districts, park districts, townships, forest preserve districts, and sanitary sewer districts on budgetary, property, personnel, and collective bargaining matters.
• Corporate Law Legal representation for corporate entities from business formation and dissolution to mergers and acquisitions, employment matters, buy-sell agreements, and tax counseling, serving private corporations in Illinois.
• Environmental Law Environmental compliance counseling, regulatory guidance, litigation under CERCLA, RCRA, Clean Water Act, and Clean Air Act, plus brownfield redevelopment and environmental insurance negotiation for municipalities and private clients.
• Labor and Employment Defense of employment-related lawsuits, labor relations counseling, collective bargaining agreement negotiation, grievance arbitration, and compliance with NLRA, FMLA, ADA, and Title VII for public and private sector clients.
• Election Law Legal counsel on Illinois election law compliance, electoral board representation, referendum procedures, ballot question placement, and campaign finance matters.
• Real Estate Law Real estate transaction representation, zoning advice, economic development, property tax issues, annexation, subdivision, telecommunications, eminent domain, and tax increment financing for municipalities and private clients.
• Construction Law Legal services for construction projects including contract negotiation, bid package preparation, compliance with public construction statutory requirements, litigation of disputes, and mechanics liens.
• Wealth and Succession Planning Personal legal services including estate planning, business succession planning, probate and trust administration, and income, estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning for individuals and business owners.

Quantifiable outcome

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Named customers16 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Clark Hill PLC: National law firm with a public-sector practice group serving municipalities, school districts and other governmental clients, including a meaningful Illinois presence. Comparable in client verticals but operates at a much larger scale than KTJ.
• Seyfarth Shaw LLP: Large national law firm with a public-sector and labor/employment practice that competes for Illinois municipal and school-district work. Overlaps with KTJ in labor/employment, litigation and government-counsel mandates, but as part of a far broader national platform.
• Chapman and Cutler LLP: Chicago-based law firm with a significant public-finance and municipal-borrowing practice serving Illinois local governments. Comparable in serving the Illinois municipal client base, though with broader financial-services and corporate reach beyond KTJ's scope.
• Tressler LLP: Chicago-headquartered law firm with a broader practice portfolio (insurance defense, municipal, education, corporate) that nonetheless meaningfully overlaps with KTJ in municipal and school-law representation for Illinois public entities.

Direct peers

• Del Galdo Law Group, LLC: Illinois local-government firm serving municipalities, school districts and special districts with a practice mix very similar to KTJ's municipal, school, library and labor/employment work. Direct geographic and client overlap.
• Franczek Radelet P.C. Chicago-based law firm with one of the leading Illinois school-law and education-law practices, alongside municipal and labor/employment work for public-sector clients. Highly comparable client verticals and matter types.
• Burke, Burns & Pinelli, Ltd. Chicago-based law firm practicing primarily in municipal, school, library and special-district law across Illinois. Comparable in client base, geographic scope and the breadth of local-government practice areas.
• Ancel Glink, PC: Illinois-based law firm widely regarded as a top competitor to KTJ in municipal and local-government representation. Overlapping practice areas (municipal, school, library, labor/employment, land use) and a similar client base of villages, cities, school districts and special districts across Illinois make it the closest direct peer.
• Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn (HLERK): Long-standing Illinois local-government law firm representing municipalities, school districts, park districts, libraries and other special districts. Its practice mix and primary client verticals (municipal + education + special districts) closely mirror KTJ's.
• Robbins Schwartz: Illinois-focused law firm with deep school-law and municipal-law practices serving school districts, municipalities and special districts statewide. Directly comparable to KTJ in client mix (school + municipal), office footprint and practice-area coverage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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