E. Regan Daniels Shepley

E. Regan Daniels Shepley, a longtime resident of Crystal Lake, practices primarily in the areas of construction law and local government law, with considerable experience in civil litigation and corporate transactional work.

Shepley advises her business clients on organizational and general corporate matters, and regularly drafts and negotiates documents for commercial transactions in the manufacturing, construction, real estate, consulting, lending, and product licensing and distribution industries.

She represents construction law clients – including owners, general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers – in private sector and state and local government projects that call upon her experience in:

• construction contracts and contract termination
• construction lending and underwriting agreements
• construction loan documentation
• competitive bidding
• minority contracting
• construction project closeouts
• liquidated damages and delay damages
• performance and payment bond claims
• surety takeovers
• mechanics liens
• indemnification
• defective construction and design
• personal injury

In all of her construction law endeavors, Shepley focuses on getting projects completed, emphasizing practical solutions over litigation. The public and private projects Shepley has focused on include utility construction, public works projects, road and bridge construction.

Shepley’s municipal and local government law practice beyond the construction law field primarily involves:

• insurance law and risk transfer
• additional insured coverage
• constitutional law matters

In her insurance law practice, Shepley concentrates on insurance coverage litigation and arbitration; insurance program analysis for compliance with state and local contracting requirements; drafting and analysis of insurance specifications in contracts; manuscript endorsements; and reservation of rights, tender, demand and bad faith letters.

In the field of complex litigation, Shepley has successfully represented public and private sector clients in matters involving distributorships, guarantees, insurance, development and land use, construction, property damage, employment, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and bad faith.

Shepley was raised in Chicago and in northern Wisconsin before studying history and political science at St. Norbert College and earning her law degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She enjoys tennis, skiing and gardening.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Shepley belongs to the Chicago-based Federation of Women Contractors, an organization that includes more than 100 members who are committed to the advancement of entrepreneurial women in the construction industry.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Co-author with David W. McArdle and Kelly A. Cahill, Construction Law Road Map – 2017, handbook published by the Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Association, 2017 and earlier editions
• Co-author with David W. McArdle, “The unintended ramifications of the SWANCC decision: Local regulation of isolated waters,” Local Government Law, May 2001
• Author, “Are You Insured When the Circus Comes to Town?” (additional insured coverage and municipalities), Illinois Municipal Review, Illinois Municipal League, June 1999

PRIOR EMPLOYMENT

Before joining Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle in 1994, Shepley practiced for five years in the Chicago office of Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon.

CIVIC AND CHARITABLE

Shepley has served on the board of directors of such organizations as the McHenry County American Cancer Society and the Northwest Area Arts Council, McHenry County College (2007-14), and the Development Advisory Committee of the McHenry-based Pioneer Center for Human Services (2010-12).