Civil
Litigation in all State and Federal Courts in Virginia, Maryland
and the District of Columbia. The Firm’s lawyers are known for
their ability to quickly solve complex legal issues and provide quality
result oriented representation to its clients.
Real
Estate expertise within the Firm encompass all aspects of financing,
leasing, acquisition and construction. The Firm prides itself on its
ability to provide rapid response to its clients’ needs for strategic
planning, documentation and consummation of transactions.
Merger
and Acquisition capabilities within the Firm belie its size.
Recently, the Firm has been involved in numerous transactions representing
both the shareholders and the businesses with a wide breath of geographic
locations including transactions based in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Florida and North Carolina. The Firm provides quality and timely representation
within a cost structure beneficial to the client.
Corporate
and Business Counseling capabilities extend from formation
to dissolution of all business entity forms, including operational documentation
and structuring for maximized tax benefits; liquidity and control; strategic
planning for growth, control transitions and public finance; general
representation on a daily basis for transactional matters, dispute resolution,
tax and stock ownership planning, including the full panoply of employee
and executive incentives. Our lawyers are continually called upon to
lecture on their innovative use of traditional structures to resolve
non-traditional issues.
Bankruptcy,
Creditor’s Rights, Lender/Creditor Workouts. The Firm
represents both Debtors and Creditors before all Bankruptcy Courts in
Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Regardless of the type
of proceeding from individual Chapter 7 to complex corporate Chapter
11 Reorganization, the Firm provides expert assistance and guidance
in accomplishing its clients’ goals and completion of the entire
process. The Firm is known for its innovative, aggressive and thoughtful
approach to all bankruptcy matters. Our lawyers are frequent lecturers
on these issues to professional and non-professional groups both locally
and nationally. The Firm’s lawyers have vast experience in consensual
“workouts” between creditors and debtors from both the creditor’s
and debtor’s perspective.
Employment
Law. The Firm represents both employers and employees in contract
negotiations, contract disputes, harassment/discrimination disputes,
EEOC compliance, disability issues and related matters as well as litigation
in the State and Federal courts.
Wills,
Estates and Trusts. From the basic to the most complex estate
planning and business succession issues the Firm provides comprehensive
services, which include our business/corporate lawyers working in conjunction
with our estate and tax lawyers, to provide total client satisfaction.
Consumer
Protection. Representing individuals in all aspects of Consumer
Protection Law, including “Lemon Law” Litigation, Fair Credit
Reporting Act Litigation and Virginia Consumer Protection Act Litigation.
Taxation.
The Firm has considerable expertise in advising clients on mergers and
acquisitions, obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status, bankruptcy/reorganization
tax issues, net operating loss continuation issues, the acquisition
and sale of intangible assets, asset protection and a variety of other
complex financial transactions. The Firm also represents individuals
and entities before the IRS, state tax agencies and state and federal
courts on a broad variety of tax issues.
Lending/Financial
Institutions. The Firm advises financial institutions and private
lenders on structuring, documenting and closing secured and unsecured
loans. The Firm is experienced with real estate secured lending on office
buildings, shopping centers, special purpose facilities, subdivision
and multi-family structures and asset based lending. The Firm advises
and represents lenders in all aspects of dispute resolution and repayment/collection
pursuits.