BUSINESS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CIVIL LITIGATION: business, corporate, commercial and contract disputes, insurance coverage disputes, civil appeals and class actions;

BUSINESS AND REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS: partnership and corporate formation, business sales and acquisitions, contracts, leases, trademark and copyright, analysis, planning, and strategy counseling;

BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING: new venture formation; Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade secrets and business reorganization; trade dress;

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR LAW: employment contracts, wrongful termination, employment discrimination (age, sex, race, disabilities, national origin), sexual harassment, fraud, covenants not to compete, wage and hour claims, severance agreements, unemployment insurance appeals, Civil Service Commission hearings, Merit System Protection Board hearings, Skelly hearings, EEO complaints and appeals, other Administrative hearings, and strategy counseling;

ESTATE PLANNING: wills, trusts, asset preservation;

AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell

FRAUD AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT: (false claims act (qui tam) litigation); popular areas for litigation have been defense contracting and health care fraud involving Federally funded programs. Typical cases involve a company defrauding the government by submitting false bills or shoddy products, a company's failure to inspect or test products, a company falsely certifying compliance with government requirements where the requirements are a condition for reimbursement and product substitution;

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY/TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS: Individuals or companies who provide unique products or services;

MEDIATION: firm partner Gary M. Laturno, (www.GaryLaturnoMediations.com) a trained Mediator and chair of the firm’s Employment Law Department, is available to serve as a Mediator concerning employment law disputes, as well as other civil matters;

PENSION AND PROFIT SHARING LAW: ERISA and employee benefit claims;

PERSONAL INJURY: wrongful death, serious injuries, accidents, product liability, wrongful termination, fraud, sexual harassment, and slip and fall.