• Contracts
  
• Fraud
  
• Real Estate Transactions
  
• Commercial Litigation
  
• Financial Institution Litigation
  
• Secured Transactions
  
• Personal Property Leases
  
• Counterclaims
• Employment Matters

The litigation practice includes extensive pre-trial and trial experience.

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Corporate & Business Services
The Firm offers the business community a wide variety of transactional legal services from formation of business entities through operation and, if necessary, dissolution.

FORMATION OF BUSINESS ENTITIES
We are experienced in forming various types of legal business entities, including:

• Professional Corporations
  
• Joint Ventures
  
• Trusts
  
• General Partnerships
  
• Limited partnerships
  
• Limited Liability Companies
• Non-Profit Companies

DOCUMENT PREPARATION
As we form an entity, we are involved in the preparation of, and provide counsel regarding documents and agreements such as:

• Pre-incorporation agreements
  
• Buy-sell agreements
  
• Option agreements
  
• Employment agreements
  
• Shareholders' and officers' agreements
  
• Non-compete agreements
  

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CONTRACT NEGOTIATION SERVICES
The Firm provides contract negotiation and drafting services customized to the unique needs of our business clientele. Our substantial experience in transactional matters and contract litigation provides a measure of confidence in helping clients to avoid future business pitfalls. Further, we encourage our business clients to utilize our outside general counsel services. Our experience covers a variety of industries, including:

• Real Estate
  
• Health
  
• Manufacturing
  
• High Tech
  
• Retail
  
• Food & Beverage
  
• Hotel
  
• Environmental Technology
  
• Professional Services
• International Trade & Finance
  

FINANCIAL TRANSACTION SERVICES
We have represented borrowers in all aspects of business finance, from loan negotiation through funding. We have assisted businesses in obtaining from banks and other commercial lending institutions:

• Secured lines of credit
  
• Unsecured lines of credit
  
• Term loans
  

We also have substantial experience representing financial institutions in negotiating and structuring finance transactions in a wide variety of industries and secured by many different types of collateral.

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Real Estate
The Firm has represented buyers, sellers, lenders, lessors and lessees of real estate properties. Our clients also include developers and managers of commercial and residential real property, including land and improvement development. We work closely with title companies, purchasers and their attorneys and borrowers. Our attorneys and staff have prepared and revised contracts of sale, closing documents, title commitments, title policies and we have coordinated closings.

Estate Planning & Probate
The Firm offers a broad range of estate planning services, including matters related to:

• Wills and living trusts
  
• Estate and gift tax planning
  
• Life insurance trusts
  
• Family limited partnerships
  
• Asset Protection
  
• Charitable gifts
  
• Guardianships
  

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Bankruptcy Litigation
The Firm provides representation in bankruptcy matters, including:

• Termination of automatic stay litigation
  
• Adversary litigation to bar a debtor's discharge
  
• Contesting Chapter 11 and Chapter 13 Plans of Reorganization
• Creditors' claims
  

Certain of our attorneys have extensive experience in all courts in the Northern District of Texas in the Dallas Division and the Fort Worth Division; the Eastern District of Texas, the Sherman Division and the Tyler Division.

Mergers & Acquisitions
The Firm has represented buyers and sellers in leveraged and unleveraged acquisitions ranging from $25,000 to $25,000,000. We are well experienced in performing due diligence and all related transaction requirements. We have also coordinated orderly divestitures of corporate assets through sale or liquidation.

Employment Matters
The Firm's attorneys have extensive experience representing their business clients in a wide range of employment related issues, including discrimination and harassment claims, wage and hour disputes, wrongful employment discharge allegations and drug testing. This includes tenacious representation before administrative agencies as well as federal and state courts but more importantly providing proactive legal counsel to educate the client on the complex issues of human resource management.