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About Lakeshore Compliance Partners
A compliance firm built on a simple idea: a file you can defend beats a memo you can't.
Lakeshore Compliance Partners helps Illinois employers comply with HB 3773 — the AI provisions of the Illinois Human Rights Act — by building the one thing most companies are missing: a complete, dated, defensible compliance file.
We are not a law firm, and we don't write memos and walk away. We do the implementation work: inventory every place AI touches an employment decision, draft the required notices, build the policy, document vendor diligence, train your team, and assemble the evidence the way an auditor would build a file to survive examination.
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Marc E. Marcus
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Why an auditor built this
Lakeshore was founded after 15 years of audit and tax practice — work built entirely around a single discipline: producing documentation that holds up when someone demands to see your support.
Those years were spent extensively with manufacturers, distributors, and real estate companies — the same industries now scrambling to make sense of a brand-new compliance obligation — and through IRS examinations, where the entire exercise is substantiation: can you prove what you claimed, with a clean and organized file?
HB 3773 compliance is the same problem in different clothes. Underneath the employment-law language, it's an audit-and-controls problem: map what touches a decision, test it against a standard, document the gaps, build the controls, and assemble evidence. Most consultants approach it as a templating exercise. We approach it the way you'd want any defensible file approached — with the assumption that someone, someday, may ask to see it.
How we work with your existing advisors
Lakeshore is a compliance consultancy, not a law firm. We work alongside your employment counsel, not in place of them. Your attorney owns the legal interpretation; we own the operational build — the inventory, the drafting, the vendor review, the training, and the assembled file.
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"For complex legal-interpretation questions, Lakeshore works with [Advisor Name], a Chicago employment attorney, who serves as Lakeshore's legal advisor."
Who we serve
Illinois employers with 100–2,000 employees, with particular depth in manufacturing, distribution and logistics, and real estate — and growing experience across healthcare, professional services, staffing, and the public sector. We serve clients statewide and are based in Chicago.
Lakeshore is a compliance consultancy, not a law firm. Nothing on this page is legal advice.