Practice Areas
Automobile Accidents
Mark & Lesa have represented many people who found themselves having been injured in a car crash, ranging from what might have appeared, from the damage to the vehicles, a fender bender, to those whose vehicles were totally ruined. Personal injuries in these crashes may be deceptive and often the insurance companies involved try to minimize their own liability to the expense of the injured person. We try to help protect your rights and be fairly compensated for your injuries.
Business Disputes
Business disputes are sometimes almost like a divorce. Such disputes tend to be emotionally charged as the parties to business disputes have a great deal invested - and not just money - in their businesses. We try to assist and keep you focused on the real issues in the dispute and how you can best resolve it.
Construction Law
Mark and Lesa actually met litigating against each other in a construction law dispute involving insurance coverage and a statutory employer in a workers' compensation injury claim. Construction law issues can range from claims for payment, issues involving performance and payment bonds, injuries on the job, and many other sub-parts of this broad field.
Dinosaur Law
What is "dinosaur law?" Good question. No, we don't represent the dinosaur! Rather we have represented those who arrange dinosaur fossil digs, dig up the fossils, and seek to sell them. There are many rules and regulations which govern such activities which must be followed in order to carry out these tasks appropriately.
Employment Law Employer
Mark and Lesa have experience in employment law, mostly on the side of the employer. Employment disputes must be carefully handled, especially in these days of heightened interest in employee rights. If an employer does not document, document, document, and carry out its HR tasks appropriately, trouble will surely follow.
Landlord and Tenant
Mark has represented numerous landlords in his practice. Landlords, justs like employers, must manage their properties in the proper manner or face serious consequences. We try to assist you in so doing.
Litigation
This is a broad category which can entail almost any area of the law (within reason). Mark and Lesa "cut their teeth" in the field of litigation, but as we have said elsewhere on this site, sometimes full-blown litigation is not the answer. But sometimes it is!
Occupational Safety and Health OSHA
Lesa has a great deal of experience in Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) matters. Having represented many construction companies, including Fortune 500 companies, in OSHA matters, Lesa brings OSHA compliance and litigation experience to the table in this field.
Personal Injury
Mark and Lesa have represented many people who have been injured and seek compensation for these injuries. Most of these cases involve car crashes, but some have involved other injuring factors, including, medical errors.
Real Estate Litigation
Real estate litigation can range from property line disputes to purchase and sale disputes to partition actions between owners and so on. Mark and Lesa have engaged in such litigation, which are many times hotly disputed.
Traffic
Mark has represented many individuals in defense of traffic matters ranging from driving on suspended licenses, driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, speeding, and other serious matters. The vast majority of these matters have involved negotiated results, but sometimes these matters need to be tried to get a desired result.
Trusts and Estates
Mark and Lesa have set up many estate plans, including trusts, life insurance trusts, simple wills, more complex wills, powers of attorney, advance medical directives, and the like. Further, Mark and Lesa have engaged in trust and estate litigation to resolve disputes between beneficiaries, trustees, personal representatives, and the like.
Criminal Law
Mark has spent a great deal of time defending those accused of crimes. Again, sometimes these cases can be resolved with a negotiated resolution, but sometimes a trial is the only way to obtain satisfaction.