President Donald Trump’s Illinois finance chairman and his family owe $5.7 million in unpaid legal fees to Nixon Peabody related to a 95-day trial in 2014, a Cook County Circuit Court judge ruled Wednesday.
Ronald Gidwitz, a businessman who has unsuccessfully run for governor of Illinois, hired in 2005 what was then called Ungaretti & Harris to advise him on legal issues related to a troubled government subsidized housing project that the Gidwitz family owned in the Chicago suburb of Joliet, Illinois. Nixon Peabody acquired Ungaretti & Harris, a midsize Chicago firm, in 2015.
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