Richard F. Klawiter

• Represented international steel company in connection with federal, state and municipal legislative approvals and incentives to facilitate the relocation from the north side of Chicago to the south side of Chicago of a US$300 million steel production facility
• Represented numerous universities and professional sports teams in connection with the construction of new residential, sports and academic facilities throughout Chicagoland
• Represented numerous Fortune 500 and other international companies in connection with global headquarters site selection and manufacturing facilities
• Represented a 53-acre site in Chicago for which entitlements were received for 14 million square feet of development and US$500 million of infrastructure financing was allocated
• Represented a 60-acre site in Chicago for which entitlements were received for 15 million square feet of development and US$550 million of infrastructure financing was allocated 
• Represented international infrastructure debt and equity fund on numerous infrastructure projects across the United States

Chambers USA

• Band 1, Illinois Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (2012-2024) 

The Legal 500 United States

• Recommended, Land Use/Zoning (2015-2024) 
• Recommended, Real Estate (2020-2021, 2023-2024) 

Other recognitions

He has also been named an Illinois Super Lawyer, as the result of a research project conducted jointly by Law & Politics and Chicago magazines and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for land use and zoning law. Rich is a frequent lecturer on topics, including zoning and land use, affordable housing, municipal finance, landmark preservation, and public policy. 

Rich serves as the chair of the firm's pro bono committee for the Chicago office and is a member of the firm's national pro bono committee. His pro bono interests are various and include representing families on immigration matters, including asylum and family reunification matters, representing indigent tenants in eviction court, handling an ongoing capital appeal for a death row inmate in Mississippi and representing not for profit community development corporations on zoning and transactional matters. He was awarded DLA Piper's Global Pro Bono and Community Service Partner of the Year in 2018.

• Co-author, "The True Faces of Immigration In the Wake of the Zarate Verdict," Texas Lawyer, 1 Feb 2018
• Co-author, "What Two Lawyers Learned at a Texas Detention Center," Crain's Chicago Business, 8 Feb 2017
• "Chicago Affordable Housing Ordinances passes: Key provisions, Key requirements," 23 Mar 2015
• Author, "Inclusionary Zoning: How to Make a Good Social Policy Better and More Fair," The Real Estate Finance Journal, Fall/Winter 2015