On your land. In your business. In your corner.

Counsel who explains your options — then gets it done.

Richard T. Marvel founded Marvel Law to give Central Illinois families, landowners, and business owners straightforward, senior-level counsel without the runaround. He works as both a transactional lawyer and a litigator — and that combination is the point: documents drafted by someone who has litigated disputes are documents built to prevent them.

Clients work directly with Rich. He returns calls, explains the law in plain language, and tells you honestly what you need — and what you don't. The goal is always the same: leave with understanding, answers, and direction.

Rich grew up on a Central Illinois family farm — five generations of the same family on the same ground. That's why this work has never been abstract to him. He knows firsthand what it takes to care for land, the quiet worry of keeping a family operation whole, and what it means to want to hand something down intact to the people who come next. It's the same thing most of his clients are working toward — whether what they're protecting is a farm, a home, a business, or a lifetime of savings.

His roots in the area run just as deep professionally. Rich earned his undergraduate degree at Illinois Wesleyan University, just blocks from the office, and has practiced law in Bloomington since 2001.

• Raised on a fifth-generation Central Illinois family farm — land, farm, and succession work is personal
• Admitted to the Illinois bar in 2001 — more than 25 years counseling Illinois families, landowners, and business owners
• Both a litigator and a transactional attorney — estate, land, farm, and business matters
• J.D., Saint Louis University School of Law (2001) · B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington
• Office in downtown Bloomington; serves clients across Illinois in person or remotely