Practice Areas

Comprehensive Legal Services in Business & Corporate, Employment, and Commercial Real Estate

I counsel and represent businesses and their owners, executives, and managers in a broad range of legal issues arising throughout the entire business life cycle, including business and corporate organizational law, commercial law, employment law, and commercial real estate law. Contact my Short Hills, New Jersey law firm for a consultation at (973) 921-0600 to discuss your legal needs.

Practice areas

• Business Formation. I advise new businesses and entrepreneurs in choosing among the many available business structures, including sole proprietorships, general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations, including S-corporations and C-corporations.
• Business Governance and Succession Planning. Business governance is the way in which a company is directed, administered or controlled, as well as the relationship between owners, managers and other key people. A business succession plan is a strategy to ensure that your business continues after the death or retirement of the company’s owners. Clear and comprehensive written agreements are vital to these areas. I counsel clients in governance and succession matters, including the review and preparation of shareholder agreements, operating agreements, and partnership agreements.
• Dispositions and Reorganizations. I counsel and represent clients regarding business dispositions such as buying or selling a business, including asset sales/purchases and stock sales/purchases, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and reorganizations. I also counsel and represent clients with respect to dissolving business structures and entities.
• Transactions. I counsel and represent clients in major business transactions, including borrowing and lending arrangements, major customer and vendor contracts, and independent contractor agreements.
• Business Disputes and Litigation. I counsel and represent clients in a wide range of business disputes and lawsuits, for example, breach of contract, shareholder/partner/member disputes, commercial collection matters, business fraud, trade name misappropriation, unfair competition, interference with relationships and contracts, and commercial collections and disputes.
• Employment Relationships. I counsel and represent clients in a wide range of employment law matters. I review, evaluate, negotiate, and draft employment contracts, handbooks/ manuals/policies, restrictive covenants and agreements (including non-compete, non-solicitation, and non-disclosure agreements), and separation/severance agreements. all of which can help avoid costly litigation and limit liability.
• Employment Litigation. I represent businesses and individuals in a wide variety of employment law disputes and litigation, including claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, breach of restrictive covenants and employment agreements, defamation, and emotional distress.
• Commercial Real Estate. I represent businesses and individuals buying or selling business, commercial, and industrial properties. I also review, evaluate, negotiate, and draft commercial leases, subleases, and licenses, and represent clients in commercial real estate litigation and disputes, including landlord-tenant issues.

For more information, I invite you to read the articles I authored on Business Law and Employment Law, attend one of my upcoming Lectures and Seminars, or contact me Contact today for a consultation at (973) 921-0600. I welcome referrals and serve as local counsel for out-of-state law firms.