Isham Lincoln & Beale was a law firm based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
[1] The law firm was founded in 1859 when Edward Swift Isham, the son of a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, formed a partnership with James L. Stark.
Incorporated as Stark & Isham, the firm quickly gained repute for their handling of commercial law.
Isham represented several major business clients including Commonwealth Edison, McDonald's, NBC, and CBS.
It was thought to be the second-largest dissolution of a law firm after Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey.