Legal Services
Organize start up businesses and counsel ongoing businesses:
Form new business entities.
Prepare and Review shareholder, partnership, management or employment agreements or other miscellaneous business contracts.
Review commercial leases and relevant 'good guy' guaranties.
Resolve shareholder, creditor, employment and other business disputes.
Represent clients in the sale or purchase of cooperative apartments, condominiums and houses.
Administer an Estate or Trust:
Handle the probate or administration proceedings;
Collection of Estate or Trust assets; and Manage payments of debts and expenses;
Prepare accountings for multiple beneficiaries; and
Complete federal and state estate tax and fiduciary income tax returns.
Assist clients to plan for their future or for the future of an elder:
Draft health care documents, powers of attorneys, wills, and agreements for trusts such as life insurance or special needs trusts.
Represent clients to determine legal and financial terms for separation or divorce:
Draft separation or settlement agreements regarding custody, visitation and support, division and distribution of assets and debts, and other miscellaneous issues; and
Prepare the documents to file for uncontested judgments of divorce.
Mediation Services
Arrange, organize and manage voluntary meetings where the clients can discuss their disputes or problems in confidence;
Help the clients understand all positions presented, but do not represent or advocate for any person or any position in the mediation;
Guide the clients in a careful examination of all the concerns, needs or interests expressed in the mediation to focus them on the possibilities of resolution;
Assist the clients in their analysis of the options which could resolve their problems or disputes;
Work with clients to develop the most promising options into specific terms for a settlement and into procedures that could help avoid or manage future conflict; and
Prepare a binding settlement agreement that the clients will execute and, if necessary, that can be filed with, and would be enforceable by, a court of appropriate jurisdiction.
IN ALL MY SERVICES, I will:
• Return phone calls promptly;
• Listen carefully and ask questions;
• Evaluate with the client, not for the client, their personal or business goals;
• Provide the client with practical strategies;
• Explain the strengths and difficulties of their options;
• Review with the client, in conversation and in writing, how I will proceed to ensure understanding;
• Acknowledge any frustrations;
• Explain delays;
• Keep client apprised of progress, problems and changes; and
• Proceed promptly and efficiently to complete the work for the client.
