160 YEARS TOGETHER
Collectively we have practiced law together over 160 years. We are imaginative but practical in law practice, and we have many records of "firsts" in the areas of technology, total quality service and innovative solutions to client problems.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
We learn from working with smart clients. They spend money not on lavish offices and big staffs, but on effective tools to accomplish their missions. We note the efficiencies and the economies they achieve. They produce quality products, price them competitively, and make comfortable profits. We have adopted the same approach, to the benefit of our clients and ourselves.
We have collective expertise and experience to handle very effectively 95% of the types of legal services needed by business owners and their families. These include, for example, the following service areas:
■ Entrepreneurial business counseling
■ Tax planning
■ Wealth planning
■ Estates
■ Corporate, partnership and LLC transactions
■ Securities law
■ Business acquisitions and sales
■ Real estate purchase, sale, development and financing
■ Construction law
■ Leasing
■ ERISA/employment law issues
■ All contractual issues
STRATEGIC ALLIANCES:
We maintain strategic alliances with specialists across the country and in other countries whom we regard to be outstanding in their fields. These specialists are available to us and our clients at a moment's notice to cover the "other 5%" of matters as they arise. We can select the right lawyer for the specific opportunity or problem in order to provide the client with effective results. Examples of the areas in which we have strategic alliances are:
■ Environmental law
■ Intellectual property law
■ International law and tax
■ Health care law
■ Creditor rights/bankruptcy law
■ Immigration law
■ Commercial litigation
■ Personal injury and malpractice
■ Family law
LEGAL SERVICE TEAMS:
We are accessible to our clients. We provide each client with a legal services team, so the client can always contact a lawyer or legal assistant who will be aware of all current activity.
In our firm we have seven lawyers, most of whom have advanced degrees including Masters in Tax Law, Masters of Professional Accountancy and Masters in Business Administration.
Our superb legal assistants have experience ranging from 20 years to more than 40 years in practice, most of which has been spent with us. A legal assistant serves as a member of each client team and as a liaison with each client.
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