Blake International Management LLC

Chief Executive Officer

I’m Falan Blake a nursing student and CNA with a vision to bridge psychiatry, neurology, and nursing research. My journey into healthcare is deeply personal. I’ve lost loved ones to stroke and heart disease, and my child lives with a serious mental illness that changed the course of our lives. 

What drives me is the question why…why the brain and body respond the way they do, and how we can move beyond treating symptoms to addressing root causes.

My focus is pediatric neurology and mental health nursing, with long-term plans to pursue a dual PHD/DNP and position myself as a nurse scientist. I believe nursing can play a greater role in reshaping how we understand brain health from advocating for advanced imaging in psychiatric care to exploring new pathways for trauma-informed recovery.

This isn’t just a career shift; it’s a lifelong mission. My platform will document my academic journey, share insights at the intersection of psychiatry and neurology, and build awareness for research-based nursing care.

If you’re interested in the future of brain health, nursing research, or cross-disciplinary collaboration, let’s connect here and on (Twitter)


Falan Blake

STG Divorce Law

Managing Shareholder

I represent individuals in family law and divorce matters, concentrating in complex asset cases as well as custody matters. Divorce, parentage/paternity, post-decree matters, maintenance/alimony cases, prenuptial agreements, and divorce appeals. I am a collaborative law attorney as well as a mediator.

Managing Shareholder, COO

Mediator for family law and divorce matters as well as commercial litigation disputes. Child custody mediator.

Mediator

I represent individuals in family law and divorce matters, concentrating in complex asset cases as well as custody matters. Divorce, parentage/paternity, post-decree matters, maintenance/alimony cases, prenuptial agreements, and divorce appeals.

Partner

American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the preeminent professional organization of family law attorneys in the United States. AAML's website is located at www.aaml.org.

Fellow

Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois

International Association of Collaborative Professionals

Circuit Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit

Guardian ad Litem acting on behalf of Judges in the Domestic Relations Division.

Guardian ad Litem

Illinois State Bar Association

Member

In charge of committee working on legislation involving dissipation or improper spending of marital assets.

Chair, Dissipation Committee

Work on drafting and amendments to existing and pending legislation with other members of the section, discuss new developments in family law.

DuPage County Bar Association

Established in 1997, the DuPage County Bar Foundation is the charitable [501(c)(3)] arm of the DuPage County Bar Association governed by a Board of Directors consisting of nine distinguished DCBA members. The purpose of this educational and charitable corporation is:

To foster and maintain the honor and integrity of the profession of law;
To improve and facilitate the administration of justice;
To promote the study of the law;
To acquire, preserve and exhibit rare books and documents, subjects of art and items of historical interest having legal significance; and
To assist deserving members of the DuPage County Bar and their dependents who are ill, incapacitated or superannuated.

Member Board Of Directors

Assisted in obtaining new members for the DuPage County Bar.

Chairman, Membership Committee

The Chicago Bar Association

Will County Bar Association

National Business Institute

Presenter at NBI's "Advanced Issues in Divorce" day-long seminar series on the topics, "Resolving Disputes and Speeding up the Process" and "Ethical Dilemmas."

Speaker

I'm an experienced Illinois Divorce attorney concentrating in family law with a focus on high net worth divorce and complex divorce cases. My work includes divorce, collaborative divorce, child custody, child support, asset valuation and division, maintenance, and post-decree matters, and premarital (prenuptial) agreement drafting.

I am a mediator and handle both family law and divorce mediation as well as commercial and business dispute mediation.

Achievements include multiple successful jury and bench trials, numerous successful arbitrations and mediations, and many successfully resolved divorce and family law matters. I also argued an appeal before the Illinois Appellate Court, Second District.

Before I focused on family law, I had extensive civil litigation and business law experience. This included business formation and transactional matters, buy-sell and operating agreements, real estate transactions, commercial leases, and employment agreements. This experience helped me better handle complex divorce cases involving extensive assets.

Special Qualifications:

Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
Fellow, Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois
Mediator, Association for Conflict Resolution

Education:
Juris Doctor, 1994, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Bachelor of Arts, 1991, Political Science-Prelaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Other Experience:

I have substantial experience in Illinois Family law, divorce law, child support, child custody, parentage, paternity, maintenance, alimony, visitation, parenting time, collaborative divorce, agreed divorce, no-fault divorce, divorce trials, and divorce appeals.

My areas of concentration are high net worth/high asset divorce, complex divorce litigation, collaborative divorce, family law mediation, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreement drafting.

I've lectured other attorneys on trial practice, Illinois family law, business valuation in divorce, and settlement agreement drafting. 

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