Prior Legal Research and Services
1. Family Law
- a. Validity of a separation agreement (family law)
- b. Child Support enforcement in Michigan
- c. Marital Property, Separate Property, Gift
- d. Property Settlements Enforcement of Child support/bankruptcy/ automatic stay of child support
- e. Private investigator accessing spouse’s email
- f. Private individual recording private conversations
- g. Validity of Islamic divorce in US courts
2. Real Estate
- a. Commercial Landlord’s Liability ( estoppel certificate and duty to make repairs)
- b. Easements and Adverse Possession
- c. Real Estate- Audit requirements
- d. Like Kind Exchanges
- e. Statute of Frauds
- f. Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) as it relates to affiliated businesses
- g. Duty of a seller of real estate to disclose the existence of a lawsuit and defects to a potential buyer.
- h. Updates to Mortgage laws and regulations-California, Georgia, Maryland, Nevada, Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, and Delaware
3. Corporate
- a. Breach of contracts
- b. Time of the essence” in contracts
- c. Enforceability of non-compete covenants
- d. Reasonable time of work performance in a contract
- e. Validity of a requirements contract if buyer has right to terminate for convenience
- f. Uniform Commercial Code(UCC) contractual limitation of consequential and incidental damages
- g. Withdrawal of LLC Members and consequences
- h. Interpretation of bond indentures
- i. Bondholders right to the premium for prepayment
- j. Interpretation of “change in control” provisions in a bond agreement
- k. Duties of a general contractor vis a vis a construction manager
- l. Piercing the corporate veil
- m. Economic Loss doctrine
- n. Shareholder derivative suites under Illinois law
4. Environmental Law
- a. Statute of Limitations on actions by US EPA
- b. Municipal water discharge
- c. Michigan Leaking Underground Storage Tank Act
5. Health Care
- a. Research of Medicare statute and federal regulations
- b. Stark Law
- c. Medicare and Medicaid Appeals
- d. Patient’s right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment.
- e. Medical malpractice (requirements to satisfy an expert’s affidavit of merit in support of a medical malpractice claim, deficiency in expert witness’s affidavit of merit)
- f. Research on issues involving Euthanasia and hospital policy and procedure
6. Insurance
- a. 50-state survey on termination of insurance agent contracts
- b. To what extent can an insurance company review, negotiate and adjust the fees charged by independent counsel when the independent counsel fails to comply with insurance company’s billing guidelines
- c. Coverage issues
7. Misc.
- a. Legality of offshore gambling facility under Canadian law
- b. Effect of Safe Ports Act and other statutes regulating online gambling
- c. US Federal laws and regulations on importing of legal services from abroad.
- d. The fundamentals of RICO
We often function as our clients’ appellate department and take on the task of drafting appellate briefs and related documents (joint appendices, exhibits, etc.) We have experienced drafting appellate briefs in a number of state and federal courts including:
- The United States Supreme Court
- · DC Circuit Court of Appeals
- · Federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
- · United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
- · Federal 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
- · Michigan Court of Appeals
- · Indiana Court of Appeals
- · Ohio Court of Appeals
- · California Court of Appeals
Some of the Motions and Briefs and other pleadings we have previously drafted for our clients include:
- · Motions and Briefs In Support of/Against Motion for Summary Disposition
- · Briefs Against Motion to Compel Evidence
- · Motions For Summary Judgment/Disposition
- · Response to Motion for Summary Judgment/Disposition
- · Motions and Briefs in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction/TRO
- · Motions and Briefs for Declaratory Relief
- · Motions to Amend Complaint and Briefs in Support
- · Motions in Limine and Briefs in Support
- · Writs of Mandamus
- · Variety of lawsuits relating to business disputes (e.g. breach of contract, tortuous interference, breach of warranty, etc.)
- · Drafting of SEC Complaint and related documents (e.g. Motion for Intervention, Response to Reply to Motion)
