Heritage Professional Associates

Scott Hammer received his undergraduate degree at Georgetown University and earned his Juris Doctorate at John Marshall Law School. For over 40 years he has concentrated his practice on representing mental health professionals. He has considerable experience in handling mental health malpractice cases, risk management issues, mental health confidentiality, contracts and defense of licensure actions. Scott he has held leadership positions on the Mental Health Law Committees of the Illinois State and Chicago Bar Associations. He is Of Counsel to the national litigation law firm Wilson Elser. He has handled more than 2,000 mental health malpractice cases and events in his career. When not practicing law, Scott hosts Hambone’s Blues Party, a blues and soul radio show broadcast in Chicagoland for the last 28 years on WDCB 90.9 fm.

Susan S. Zoline, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who has been involved in practicing, teaching, and consulting in the Chicago area for over forty years. Dr. Zoline is a Professor of Psychology in the Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) program at Adler University. She was previously a Professor of Psychology and University Fellow at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology (ISPP) at Argosy University, Chicago, where she taught clinical masters and doctoral Psychology students for over thirty years. Dr. Zoline’s areas of professional expertise include professional ethics, suicide, violence and abuse assessment and intervention, clinical supervision and risk management. Dr. Zoline is a longstanding member of the Illinois Psychological Association Ethics Committee which she has co-chaired since 2010. Dr. Zoline has worked clinically in a broad variety of settings and regularly consults and provides workshops to mental health and other professionals both locally and nationally on topics related to professional ethics.