Practice Areas
Business Transactions, including planning for and formation of new business entities to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks to you and your business, identifying, managing and solving a wide variety of legal issues that apply to the formation of new business entities, including issues related to antitrust laws, corporate governance, employee benefits, executive compensation, information technology, intellectual property, mergers, acquisitions, financing and tax matters.
Commercial Litigation, including commercial, employment, environmental, and real estate litigation. internal corporate investigations, large class actions, multi-district litigation, investigations conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, state securities regulatory agencies and the United States Justice Department.
Legal Ethics, including a wide variety of legal services relating to the law of practicing law including defending attorneys in attorney discipline matters, representing attorneys seeking reinstatement of readmission to the practice of law, advising lawyers and law firms as outside ethics counsel and serving as a testifying expert witness in cases involving legal ethics issues.
Real Estate, representing individual property owners, developers, investors, lenders and business users in the disputes, acquisition, development, financing, sale and leasing of real estate.
Environmental Law, including specialized environmental representation in transactions, litigation and regulatory activities involving all major federal and state environmental programs, including site investigations and remediations, "Superfund", hazardous waste, "Brownfields", property transactions, mining, water quality, wetlands, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
Water Law, including management of water cases, water transactions, negotiating and litigating complex water rights transfers, advising on federal water policy issues such as the Endangered Species Act, water quality, use of federal facilities and reserved water rights.
Estate Planning, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, business succession plans such as funded buy-sell agreements and family limited partnerships, life insurance funded trusts and charitable contributions.