Appellate Practice
Appellate practice involves different skills and strategic considerations than trial practice. On appeal, the focus shifts from developing and proving facts (through discovery, examining witnesses, and trial) to the legal issues that decide the case.
Banking
Banks are an intrinsic part of business, finance, and everyday life. … It examines the development and current state of banking legislation and regulation and facilitates bankers and their institutions to shape their practice to meet all the necessary legal and regulatory requirements.
Commercial Litigation
Commercial litigation. Commercial litigation is a broad term that refers to the resolution of all manner of contentious corporate transactions and relationships through court action. From breaches of contract to shareholder disputes, if you require advice or representation in commercial litigation, we can help.
Conveyancing
Conveyance is the act of transferring an ownership interest in property from one party to another. Conveyance also refers to the written instrument, such as a deed or lease, that transfers legal title of a property from the seller to the buyer.
Employment law
Employment law is the area of law that governs the employer-employee relationship. This area is made up of both state and federal laws and includes many different subjects with the common goal to protect workers’ rights. Employment law covers everything from human resources to labor relations.
Insurance
Insurance law is the practice of law surrounding insurance, including insurance policies and claims. It can be broadly broken into three categories – regulation of the business of insurance; regulation of the content of insurance policies, especially with regard to consumer policies; and regulation of claim handling.
Joint Ventures
A joint venture is a legal organization that takes the form of a short term partnership in which the persons jointly undertake a transaction for mutual profit. … A joint venture corporation involves the same type of activity as above but within a corporate framework.
Legal Audits
A legal audit is an appraisal of an organization’s operations to determine its compliance with the laws and regulations that apply to it. The audit checklist guides the evaluation process by checking the company’s performance against legal standards and identifying areas where adherence needs to be stricter.
Mortgages
A mortgage involves the transfer of an interest in land as security for a loan or other obligation. … Failure to pay the mortgage debt once foreclosure of the land occurs leads to seizure of the security interest and its sale to pay for any remaining mortgage debt.
Personal Injury
We provide legal services to those who claim to have been injured, physically or psychologically, as a result of the negligence of another person, company, government agency or any entity.
Real Estate
Real estate law is the area of law that governs buying, using and selling land. It’s the law that governs how people acquire property and what they can do with the property that they own. Real estate law is also called real property law.
Succession
Trusts
A trust is created by the owner, also called a “settlor”, “trustor” or “grantor” who transfers property to a trustee. The trustee holds that property for the trust’s beneficiaries.
Company Secretarial Services
Arbitration
Alternative Dispute Resolution Attorneys. Arbitration is a legal technique for the resolution of disputes outside the courts, wherein the parties to a dispute refer it to one or more persons (the “arbitrators”, “arbiters” or “arbitral tribunal”), by whose decision (the “award”) they agree to be bound.
Insolvency
Insolvency is the legal term describing the situation of a debtor who is unable to pay his, her, or its debts. There are two primary types of insolvency: cash flow and balance sheet. In cash flow insolvency, the debtor suffers from a lack of financial liquidity making it impossible to pay debts as they fall due.
Non-Profit Organizations
Not for Profit Organizations are regulated by local, state and federal laws. The purpose of a non-profit corporation or association is to conduct business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law.
Commercial Law
Commercial law, also known as trade law, is the body of law that applies to the rights, relations, and conduct of persons and businesses engaged in commerce, merchandising, trade, and sales. It is often considered to be a branch of civil law and deals with issues of both private law and public law.
Company Law
Corporate law (also known as business law or enterprise law or sometimes company law) is the body of law governing the rights, relations, and conduct of persons, companies, organizations and businesses. It refers to the legal practice relating to, or the theory of corporations.
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property law deals with the rules for securing and enforcing legal rights to inventions, designs, and artistic works. Just as the law protects ownership of personal property and real estate, so too does it protect the exclusive control of intangible assets.
Leases and Tenancies
Some people interchangeably use the terms lease and tenancies to refer to the landlord-tenant relationship. … In commercial terms, a tenancy agreement is usually for a short period of time and is usually considered a periodic lease whereby the landlord or tenant can issue a termination period of one month
Medical Negligence
An act or omission (failure to act) by a medical professional that deviates from the accepted medical standard of care. … Negligence on its own does not merit a medical malpractice claim, but when the negligence is the cause of injury to a patient, there may be a good case for medical malpractice.
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Several different factors, not all of them obvious, determine who is liable for damages or injuries resulting from an automobile accident. … The decision of who pays for damages or injuries in car accidents rests primarily on motor vehicle statutes, rather than the traditional, common law definition of “fault.”
Professional Negligence
Professional negligence is a breach of the duty of care between professionals and their clients. The duty of care is a common law arrangement where the client expects a level of professionalism and standards commonly held by those in the profession.
Securities
A security is an investment in a business. It can take the form of shares of stock, bonds, a package of loans or mortgages offered for sale by a financial institution or a financial instrument representing investment in a company or an international project.
Wills
A will or testament is a legal document by which a person, the testator, expresses their wishes as to how their property is to be distributed at death, and names one or more persons, the executor, to manage the estate until its final distribution.