Scaria, Susan A.

Lisa Harms Hartzler joined Sorling Law Offices in 2006 to engage in the general practice of law and as a member of the firm’s Health Law Group.

Ms. Hartzler graduated from North Central College (B. A., cum laude, 1975) and from The American University Washington College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1978). She was Senior Note & Comment Editor of The American University Law Review, which published her Comment in 1978.

After law school, she joined the Chicago law firm of Gardner Carton & Douglas, where she was a member of the Health Law and Real Estate Departments and became a partner in 1985. Her practice concentrated in general health law, not for profit tax exempt financings, and the acquisition, disposition and leasing of industrial, office and retail properties.

Relocating to Springfield, Illinois, in 1991, she concentrated on her family, offered her talents to numerous charitable organizations, and most recently provided litigation research and drafting for a local law firm. She is a former trustee of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Greater Illinois Chapter, where she was Vice Chairman and a member of the government advocacy committee. She created and oversees a program that offers reconditioned band instruments to low income families in her school district and currently serves as chairman of the board of the St. John’s Lutheran Preschool in Springfield.

Ms. Hartzler is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the Illinois Association of Health Care Attorneys. She is also a member of the Illinois State, Sangamon County, and Central Illinois Women’s Bar Associations.