AREAS OF PRACTICE

The following are some of the areas of practice in which our firm concentrates.  If you need legal assistance in another area of law, we may be able to assist you.  If for some reason we can not assist you, we will be glad to find you attorney who can.

Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Business Organization and Planning

• Choice of Entity and Formation Issues
• C-Corporations
• S-Corporations
• Limited Liability Company
• Limited Liability Partnership
• Joint Ventures
• Wind Up & Dissolution
• Compliance with Filing Requirements
• Establish employment contracts & covenants not to compete.

Estate and Probate Litigation

• Probate of Will
• Probate of Estate without a Will
• Issues pertaining to guardianship and conservatorship.

Basic and Sophisticated Estate Planning, Trusts, and Tax and Asset Protection Planning

• Wills
• Wills with Marital Deduction and Family Trusts
• Guardianship for children, elderly relatives and disabled adults
• Trust to fund a child’s education or transfer assets while minimizing taxation
• Living Will (Advanced Directive for Health Care Directive)
• Medical Power of Attorney
• Revocable and Irrevocable Living Trusts
• Insurance Trusts
• Advanced Directive for Health Care
• Durable Power of Attorney
• Springing Power of Attorney
• Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts (ILITs)
• Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs)
• Grantor Retained Unitrusts (GRUTs)
• Grantor Retained Income Trusts (GRITs)
• Dynasty Trusts
• Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRTs)
• Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts (CRATs)
• Qualified Personal Residence Trusts (QPRTs)
• Evaluate how assets are titled and make recommendations to minimize estate taxes and maximize the transfer of wealth to future generations.

Guardianships, Elder Planning, and Special Needs Planning

• Guardianships for children, elderly relatives, and disabled adults
• Long term care and disability planning
• Special needs trusts

Personal Injuries

• Automobile Accidents
• Workers Compensation
• Any accident resulting in death or injury

Real Estate

Contracts

• Create joint ventures, general partnerships, limited partnerships and liability companies for real estate development, and handle related securities issues.
• Prepare and negotiate restrictive covenants on commercial and residential developments.
• Establish owners associations in connection with commercial and residential developments.
• Entity Formation
• Section 1031 Tax Deferred Exchanges (Simultaneous, Delayed and Reverse Exchanges)

Commercial Transactions

• Prepare and negotiate all types of leases on commercial real estate.
• Prepare and negotiate commercial construction contracts.
• Negotiate, document and close sales, acquisitions and financing of commercial properties, including sale/lease back transactions.
• Represent national lenders in major commercial real estate financing transactions.
• Annex unincorporated real property to municipalities.
• Create condominiums.
• Title Insurance

Residential Transactions

• Prepare and negotiate all types of leases on residential real estate.
• Close all types of residential real estate transactions.
• Title Insurance