Practice Areas

Specific Business-Individual Legal Areas

General Business Legal Services

• Business Set-Up (Formation) and Compliance
• Dissolution of Business
• Drafting Bylaws or Operating Agreements
• Succession Planning Agreements (e.g. Buy/Sell & Cross Purchase)
• Business Law Compliance, Prevention, and Protection Review and Programs
• Employment Matters
• Sale/Purchase of Business
• Commercial Lease Agreements and Landlord/Tenant Issues
• Contract Review, Negotiation, and Drafting
• Government Licensing Issues/Disputes
• State and Federal Trademarks
• Trademarks

Employment

• Administrative Hearing Representation (e.g. EEOC, MDCR, Wage and Hour, Unemployment, etc.)
• Severance Agreements
• Restrictive Covenant Agreements (e.g. non-compete, non-solicit, trade secrets, confidentiality, etc.)
• Employee Handbooks & Forms
• State and Federal Employment Law Compliance (e.g. Civil Rights, Wage and Hour, etc.)
• Employee and Independent Contractor Agreements
• Employee Benefits
• Hiring, Discipline, and Separation of Employee Issues
• Unemployment Hearing Representation and Rate/Audit Disputes
• Reductions in Force
• Sales Personnel Commission Agreements
• OSHA, MIOSHA, and HIPAA Compliance
• Issues concerning the use of temporary or leased employees and/or a Professional Employer Organization

Individual Practice Areas

• Michigan Unemployment Hearing Representation including Misrepresentation and Fraud Matters
• Federal Social Security Disability Claims and Appeals
• Employment Matters including Employee Contracts, Severance and/or Separation Agreements,  and Restrictive Covenant Agreements (e.g. non-compete)
• Employee termination (e.g. including claims of discrimination, sexual harassment, FMLA, ADA, etc.)
• Construction Contracts and Disputes
• State Agency Matters and Appeal Hearing Representation (e.g. licensing, regulatory compliance, benefit appeals, unemployment misrepresentation or fraud, etc.)
• Contract Review, Negotiation, and Drafting