SERVICES
 
  • Our Estates and Trusts Department offers our clients personal service in a highly technical area of the law, including Estate Litigation. We provide personal planning and its interrelationship with a client's business interests, and encompassing estate, tax planning and Elder law; drafting of wills and trust agreements, as well as inter-vivos (living) revocable trusts; estate administration, including probate, preparation of all Estate Tax returns, and representation before the IRS and other taxing authorities; wills, trusts and estates litigation; preparation of living wills, powers of attorney and health care proxies; negotiation and preparation of pre and post-nuptial agreements.

 

  • Our Employee Benefits Department services clients in a broad range of benefit programs and transactions, including:
    • Design and implementation of qualified pension and profit sharing plans, 401(k) plans, health and welfare plans, non-qualified deferred compensation plans, and executive compensation
    • Representation before IRS for pension audits, retirement plan audits, profit sharing plan audits, 401(k) audits and DOL and PBGC  plan audits and other related matters
    • Benefits-related litigation
    • Annual administration of qualified plans and cafeteria plans
    • Preparation of summary plan descriptions and communications to employees
    • Plan mergers, consolidations and terminations, including excess asset reversion planning
    • Tax planning for lifetime and post-death distributions from qualified and non-qualified plans

    Our Business and Corporate Department offers legal representation for the individual and closely held business organization, including:

    • Representation before the Internal Revenue Service
    • Mergers, acquisitions, tax-free incorporations, dissolutions and liquidations
    • Negotiation and drafting of business agreements, e.g., buy-ins, buy-outs, stock redemption, cross-purchase and partnership agreements
    • Representation and tax analysis for the sale or purchase of a business
    • All personal and business real estate transactions, including sale or purchase of a residence or commercial property
    • Lease negotiations

    We also offer a unique specialization in the representation of Health Care Providers in the establishment and operation of their professional practices, bringing to the health care professional the legal and business expertise necessary for a successful practice.