Ms. Pavlik is a Springfield native who has also practiced law in Dallas, Texas. She is admitted to practice law in Texas and Illinois and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Ms. Pavlik received a Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting with highest honors from the University of Texas at Austin. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame Law School where she served as Senior Editor of the Notre Dame Law Review and was a Kiley Scholar.
Ms. Pavlik began her practice at the preeminent Texas law firm Baker & Botts. She then worked at national law firm Arter & Hadden before joining a small group of attorneys in forming a boutique practice in Dallas. She returned to Springfield in 1998 to join Delano Law Offices. Her practice has focused on planning for families, including wills, trust agreements, powers of attorney, the formation of entities, including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies, the management and transfer of business entities, shareholder agreements, buy-sell agreements, estate and trust administration, including the preparation and audit of estate and gift tax returns, fiduciary litigation, probate matters, and advising individual and corporate fiduciaries.
Ms. Pavlik is a past Chairperson of the Illinois State Bar Association Federal Taxation Section Council and the Sangamon Valley Estate Planning Council. She is or has been a board member of many Springfield community organizations, including the Springfield Old Capitol Art Fair (Chair 2008), Ursuline Academy (Chair 2001-2003), Catholic Charities, Blessed Sacrament Parish Finance Council, and Illinois Women in Leadership.
Ms. Pavlik has lectured at many legal seminars and various group meetings in Texas and Illinois, including a seminar sponsored by the Illinois State Treasurer's Advisory Board for Women's Issues. She is a legal columnist for the Springfield Business Journal.
Ms. Pavlik was named a Security Bank Woman of Influence in 2007 and one of Springfield's Forty Under 40 business and community leaders in 2000.