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AREAS OF PRACTICE
The firm provides our clients with a wide
variety of important legal services which include:
Real Estate - Our firm has broad
experience in handling residential and commercial real estate transactions
and related litigation. This includes representing the buyer, seller, or
lender in residential or commercial real estate transactions; the lessor/lessee
of apartment or commercial real estate leases; the developer, builder, or
lending institution in the construction and financing of homes, apartments,
and commercial real estate ventures; litigation of title problems,
easements, rights of way, condemnations (eminent domain), and other real
estate problems.
Trials and Appeals
- When you have a dispute with an individual, business, or institution that
requires court action, our firm can also represent you in any resulting
lawsuit or litigation. We have broad experience before the courts. This
experience involves cases concerning personal and commercial contracts,
bodily injury, disputes involving real estate, debt collection, will
contests, suits involving insurance contracts, banking litigation,
condemnation (eminent domain) litigation involving the taking of property
from property owners by power, pipeline, and other public companies, and
suits concerning defective products or workmanship. We are experienced in
alternate dispute resolution such as mediation and arbitration.
Guardianship, Adoption, and Marital
Agreements - We represent and
counsel clients on all aspects of adoption, appointment of guardians, and
preparation of pre and post marital agreements.
Wills, Trusts, Probate, and Estate
Planning - We
provide a complete estate planning service including the preparation of
wills, trusts, living or revocable trusts, powers of attorney, family
limited partnerships, grantor retained annuity trusts, and all other
documents and instruments relating to estate planning. We stand ready to
advise you regarding the estate, inheritance, or gift tax implications of
any estate plan or other distributions of your property. We also provide
legal counseling and assistance with respect to the administration of
estates, probate proceedings, and estate settlement.
Business and Business Succession Planning
- We represent individuals, partnerships, and corporations involved in all
types of business activities. We can assist informing corporations,
proprietorships, and limited or general partnerships, as well as advising on
other legal matters such as mergers, reorganizations, dissolutions, and
acquisitions. We can also offer advice concerning commercial and secured
transactions, collections, securities, and banking. We also help clients
transfer a business from one generation to the next and from an owner to key
employees.
Oil and Gas
- We represent landowners in the negotiation of oil, gas, or mineral leases
with oil companies or mining interests. We will also provide title opinions
for the landowner or oil company. Our firm will also represent you in
litigation over oil and gas leases, competing mineral interests, and the
enforcement of debts and liens for drilling services or supplies.
Criminal
- We represent and counsel clients charged with misdemeanor or felony
offenses. Our firm has extensive experience in the trial of criminal cases at
all levels of the state court system. In addition, we frequently represent
persons in the appeal of their criminal convictions received while represented
by other counsel. We also provide legal counseling and assistance to
individuals who believe they have been the victim of a crime and wish to seek
prosecution of the offending person by the local prosecuting attorney.
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