 Carol Carlson-Nofsinger
Carol Carlson-Nofsinger is an Asst. Professor and the Coordinator of Paralegal Studies
at Harper College. Carol practiced in the areas of real estate law (including zoning),
corporate law, employment law, and contract law for 28 years. Carol retired from the
practice of law in 2014 when she obtained a Lecturer Position, which she held for
4 years, at the College of DuPage. She has taught, as an adjunct instructor, a variety
of subjects to paralegals in three different ABA approved Paralegal Studies Programs,
since 1986, including at Roosevelt University, College of DuPage and Harper College.
Most recently, Carol has taught the following courses to paralegals: Internship in
Paralegal Studies, Real Property Law, Contract Law, and Introduction to Paralegal
Studies.
Carol is also an Illinois Licensed Real Estate Pre-Licensure Instructor who has taught
Real Estate Broker Pre-License classes for over 20 years. She co-authored Illinois
Proficiency Exam Prep: Broker to Managing Broker, 1st Edition and Illinois Proficiency
Exam Prep: Salesperson to Broker, 1st Edition for Dearborn Real Estate Education.
Carol has reviewed and contributed materials to the textbook used in the real estate
courses here at Harper College called Modern Real Estate Practice in Illinois by Galaty, Allaway, and Kyle. Carol has reviewed and written online real estate courses
for two national course providers. Carol also wrote four of the real estate courses
currently offered at Harper College. She received her B.A. from Elmhurst College and
a J.D. from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law.
|
 Christine Adams
Christine (“Tina”) Adams focuses her family’s practice on bankruptcy and real estate
law. She represents corporate and consumers in bankruptcy and buyers and sellers in
real estate.
Before becoming an attorney Tina worked as a paralegal in her father’s law firm. She
went to school part-time at nights and weekends to earn her degree from Loyola University
and then went on to law school at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. (Now University
of Illinois Chicago School of Law) While at law school she attended classes abroad
in Italy for a summer semester. Also, she participated in the Fair Housing Center
and other consumer-related activities. After obtaining her law degree she continued
working full-time at her father’s law firm. Tina is also a Cook County Arbitration
Judge. She volunteered at the Lake County Foreclosure Help Desk for 10 years. Tina
also is an adjunct member of the College of Lake County where she teaches in the Legal
Studies Program. Her outside interests include riding, caring for her horse, and playing
with her dogs.
|
 Diane Gordon
Diane received her undergraduate degree in English from the University of Illinois
at Champaign/Urbana and her law degree from the University of Iowa, College of Law.
She has worked as an attorney for over 30 years in many areas of law, including practicing
law in Iowa, Texas, and Illinois. For the past 15 years she has owned and operated
her own law practice, focusing in the areas of bankruptcy and consumer law. Diane
had taught Bankruptcy Law in the paralegal studies program at Harper College since
2015, in addition to teaching Family Law in the Fall, 2020. Diane also is an adjunct
faculty member at The College of Lake County, where she has taught Employment Law
and Alternative Dispute Resolutions. Diane also is a tutor for the paralegal studies
program at Harper and is a writing tutor at the College of Lake County.
|
 Margaret Hickey-Marco
Margaret is a native of Yonkers, New York. She received her bachelor's degree from
New York University in Politics and her law degree from Cornell Law School. After
law school she practiced litigation concentrating in Product Liability. She then
worked as a Research Consultant at Lexis-Nexis. She has been working at Harper since
2011.
|
 Charles Knittle
Charles Knittle is a practicing attorney in the Chicago area, representing primarily
corporations and other business organizations for many years. He has also taught
a variety of law courses, including torts, contracts, litigation, corporate and securities
law, business law, estate planning and real estate. Chuck has served on the board
or directors of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
the Illinois Retail Merchants Association and chaired the government affairs committee
of the National Retail Federation for eight years. He was educated at the University
of Notre Dame (graduating in the upper fifth of his class) and the IIT Chicago Kent
College of Law (graduating in the upper sixth of his class). Chuck also served as
an officer in the United States Air Force for three years. A native of the Chicago
area, his interests include sailing, reading, racquetball and travel.
|
 Lisa Matich
In 2001, Lisa graduated cum laude from Northern Illinois University College of Law,
having served as the Managing Editor of the NIU Law Review. Lisa graduated from Purdue
University in 1997 as an honors student with a BA in English and a German minor.
After being admitted to the Bar in Illinois, Lisa began her legal career at Harry
R. Chiles and Associates, a plaintiff’s insurance subrogation firm in Wheaton, where
she practiced high-volume work including arbitrations, bench trials, jury trials,
and post-trial motions. Lisa went on to open her own solo practice, which allowed
her to contract for appellate work, traffic, and real estate cases. Lisa has been
affiliated with Tedone & Morton, P.C. for over six years, working as an associate
and of counsel in the areas of real estate, family law, wills, and traffic. As Lisa
enjoys writing and research, she is often called upon to help with appellate brief
writing for the firm. Lisa often serves as an arbitrator in Will, Kane, and DuPage
Counties.
Lisa found a passion for teaching law at Northwestern College where she taught paralegal
courses and served as the Legal Studies Program Coordinator for the Naperville campus.
During this time, Lisa pursued a doctorate in Education from her alma mater NIU, with
an emphasis on adult and higher education. Lisa can be found teaching paralegal students
at Harper College and Waubonsee Community College, and she serves as a professional
tutor and academic coach at Aurora University. Lisa has also previously taught post-secondary
developmental literacy at College of DuPage and at NIU.
During Lisa’s free time, you can find her playing her contra-bass clarinet with the
American Wind Band (along with her tuba-playing husband) or watching her two high
school sons march in the band. Lisa and her family are the proud owners of two rescue
dogs, Tigger and Dodge, and enjoy long walks together.
|
 Monica Shirley
Monica Shirley is an Instructor in the Paralegal Studies Department at William H.
Rainey Harper College. She began her tenure at Harper as a Diverse Faculty Fellow
in 2017. Monica holds a J.D. from The John Marshall Law School, a M.A. in education
from National Louis University, and a B.A. in English Literature from Loyola University
Chicago. As a Diverse Faculty Fellow, Monica was brought to Harper's campus under
a program designed to give underrepresented individuals a chance to teach and to learn
about community college infrastructure. Prior to coming to Harper, Monica worked in
education holding various roles, including Assistant Dean of Students and College
Access Coordinator. Monica loves being a paralegal instructor and always knew she
wanted to fuse her educational background and law degree. Monica’s passions include
law, education, diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, she has given talks
about representation in the classroom and how it contributes to student success. She
has made it a personal commitment to illustrate how law and diversity intersect and
to provide teachable moments inside and outside of her classroom.
Monica loves the law and decided to go to law school because she believes that the
law informs everything we do. She also believes that it is better and beneficial to
be knowledgeable about different legal aspects than not. She believes that all students
have the capacity to learn and likes to give real world examples in the classroom
to illustrate various legal topics.
|
 Guy R. Youman
Guy R. Youman, Attorney, has been the managing principal of the Law Offices of Rupp
& Youman since 1994. The firm concentrates in various areas of general civil law
including Probate, Trusts & Estate Planning, Taxation, Litigation, Real Estate and
Business Law. Guy has an accounting degree from the University of Illinois. Guy
has an abundance of experience in Probate and Guardianship Courts in McHenry, Cook,
Lake, DuPage, Kane, Will, DeKalb, Boone and Winnebago Counties in Illinois. He also
has the distinction of being a court appointed GAL in several Chicago area Circuit
Courts including Cook, Lake and McHenry Counties. He has been teaching Probate, Trusts
and Estates at the Harper community college paralegal program since 1999.
Guy has a book called “Legacy” published in 1998 and has been published in various
periodicals on the subject. Guy sits on various boards for Schools, Churches, Nursing
Homes, Park Districts and Private Foundations. He has been a key note speaker in
Probate, Trusts and Estate Planning for various Bar Associations, Financial Advisors,
Archdiocese, different Levels of Governments, Nursing Homes, Paralegal Associations,
Insurance Companies, Realtors and other private organizations.
Guy is an active chair in the Civil Section of the McHenry County Bar Association
and is active with the Circuit Court of McHenry County including revamping the online
forms for Guardianship and Probate, development of GAL training and input in the structure
of the Clerk’s electronic filing and other systems from the attorney’s perspective.
|
