Small to Mid-Size Business

A valuable business partner offers practical expertise, insight and experience to ensure the success of a business enterprise. An exceptional legal advisor truly understands a client’s business, culture and objectives. Our firm helps your business to develop and scale by providing tried and tested legal solutions that address current legal challenges and anticipate future risks and opportunities. We strive to provide you with first-rate legal advice that is tailored to your unique business needs. With regular consultation and collaboration with our trusted network of accountants, business advisors and financial experts, we manage complex legal issues by providing strategic advice relative to:

TRANSACTIONS

• Asset purchases and sales
• Business organization, restructuring and succession
• Buy-in and Buy-out transactions
• Commercial contracts and transactions
• Corporate ownership, control and management
• Development and licensing
• Employee and independent contractor agreements
• Franchising and Distribution
• General business counseling
• Intellectual property litigation
• Loan Documentation and Security Agreements
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Non-disclosure, non-solicitation and non-competition agreements
• Ownership succession, transfer, and buy-sell agreements
• Product and technology licensing
• Profit-sharing arrangements
• Real Estate Agreements
• Regulatory compliance
• Shareholder / Stakeholder disputes and contract disputes
• Stock option plans
• Trade secret / Proprietary information protection

LITIGATION

We serve as local and national litigation counsel to clients ranging from family-owned businesses to Fortune 500 companies and local counsel to companies headquartered throughout the world. Our efforts and achievements have fostered long-term client relationships and recognition at the local, state and national level for outstanding litigation achievements.

We determine the client's specific goal, gather the facts, evaluate the legal issues, and then focus our efforts on achieving that goal efficiently. If the objective can be achieved by settlement, we are skilled negotiators within and outside mediation settings. If a matter can be resolved by summary legal disposition, we target that result. If clients wish to avoid courtroom litigation, then we guide the matter through arbitration or other conflict resolution processes.

Our legal team has tried and litigated many cases, both jury and bench, before administrative agencies, and in front of arbitration panels, including the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and private mediators.

• Alternative Dispute Resolution

Our legal team represents clients in arbitration, mediation and other ADR proceedings. 

• Appellate

Our appellate practice includes the representation of clients before federal and state courts as well as agencies throughout the United States.

• Bankruptcy, Insolvency Proceedings and Creditors' Rights

Our experience in bankruptcy and workouts is well-recognized.  We work in a variety of industries, counseling creditors and identifying solutions to their financial issues.

• Class Actions

We have defended clients in numerous class actions at the federal and state levels across the country in these high-stakes disputes.  We are knowledgeable with the intricacies of class actions and are skilled at identifying early opportunities to seek dismissal of such claims.

• Commercial Disputes

Leveraging our experience and litigation skills, Westminster Legal Group LLC represents clients in all types of commercial disputes from basic collections matters to more complex ones such as avoidance and recovery of fraudulent transfers under both the bankruptcy code and state law, Uniform Commercial Code violations and breach of fiduciary duty claims.

• Construction

We have experience representing clients in contract negotiation, counseling, litigation and dispute resolution relating to a wide variety of projects, including office, commercial and residential buildings, manufacturing facilities, laboratories, water distribution systems, schools, libraries, stadiums, convention centers, shopping malls and retail centers, hotels, governmental facilities, roads, bridges, transit stations, and single family residences. 

• Consumer Finance

We have broad experience counseling and defending clients on the various consumer finance related laws in state and federal courts throughout the country, both in individual and class action cases. Our firm provides preventative counseling to clients and advise them on how to avoid litigation in the future. 

• Directors’ and Officers’ Liability

We represent boards and directors and officers (D&O) in liability defense, internal investigations, government investigations and insurance coverage matters. 

• Environmental and Pollution

We litigate environmental matters involving contaminated property, whether initiated by governmental agencies or other third parties under federal and state statutes, regulations and other laws.

• Fiduciary Litigation

Fiduciary litigation often involves complex trust, estate, guardianship and similar matters at both the trial and appellate levels.  We have represented individuals, charitable organizations, banks and trust companies in such matters involving a broad range of fiduciary issues.

• Municipal Litigation

We have successfully obtained administrative and legislative decisions through both litigation and negotiations with local, county, and state governments.

• Real Estate and Land Use/Zoning

We have experience handling virtually all types of real estate disputes and litigation, including proceedings involving condemnation, mechanics’ liens, landlord-tenant disputes, disputes arising in condominium and common interest community associations, contract rescission, environmental problems, construction disputes, zoning issues, actions to quiet title and partition matters.

• Shareholder Disputes

Our team is experienced in resolving disputes among shareholders and protecting our clients’ interests including in privately held businesses. When disputes are unavoidable, we assist clients in resolving issues through mediation, arbitration or litigation.

• Unfair Competition and Restrictive Covenants

We handle the full range of legal issues such as proprietary business information, including trade secret, non-compete, unfair competition, breach of contract, restrictive covenant, and non-solicitation matters for a variety of clients.

We build on our firm’s other practice areas to provide reliable solutions to resolve our clients’ challenges and reach their objectives.