Our Areas of Practice
Contracts and Business Transactions
As outside counsel to both established and emerging companies, we provide day-to-day legal advice on all aspects of business operations and strategy. This is the core of our firm. In addition to advising on corporate, labor and employment, intellectual property and real estate issues, we also have expertise in general insurance matters. We are available to our clients 24 hours a day to handle any legal matter that may arise.
Our business facilitation services include the following:
- Negotiating and drafting various types of contracts, including equipment leases, fabrication agreements, MUL agreements, licensing agreements, merchandising agreements, distribution agreements, sales contracts, etc.
- Drafting disclaimers and warnings for Internet and e-mail usage.
- Advising on product safety and warranty issues.
- Preparing demand letters and collection debts.
- Advising and preparing UCC-1 and UCC-3 filings.
- Advising on everyday "real world" problems.
Corporations, Partnerships, and LLCs
Your choice of business entity often profoundly impacts your business options. Salmas Law Group has years of experience in creating and counseling all forms of businesses.
We help your company with the following:
- Selecting a corporate form, whether it be a sole proprietorship, corporation, limited partnership, general partnership, LLC, etc.
- Maintaining the corporation by drafting corporate resolutions, advising clients on recent changes in the law, assisting companies to qualify for business in other states, obtaining business licenses, advising clients on how to comply with various laws and regulations, advising clients on technology trends, etc.
Litigation
The members of the firm have a variety of experience in commercial litigation matters and appeals. We have handled single issue breach of contract cases as well as complex multi-party litigation. However, we often solve problems and disputes outside of court through our fact-finding investigations and negotiations. Whenever possible we try to devise alternatives to litigation in order to help our clients avoid the inevitable costs, delays and risks associated with litigation.
We have successfully litigated, arbitrated and mediated cases in the following areas:
- Intellectual property, patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and trade dress.
- Media and entertainment.
- Commercial disputes.
- Employment and labor relations.
- Construction.
- Real Property.
- Appellate.
Employment Law
The effective handling of labor and employment disputes has become one of the most pressing problems facing businesses today. With the proliferation of statutes regulating employer conduct and increased recognition of new common law rights for employees, virtually any decision affecting personnel can lead to costly and disruptive legal action. In order to minimize employer liability, we prepare sound employment policies for our corporate clients. Our goal is to help our clients solve their employment problems and avoid litigation.
We advise our clients on the following labor and employment matters:
- Wrongful discharge and employment discrimination, including sexual harassment laws.
- Immigration, including H-1B work visas.
- Wage and hour laws.
- Employment offers and contracts, and termination and severance agreements.
- Employee benefits, employee handbooks and Illness and Injury Prevention Programs.
- Labor regulations including, OSHA, ADA and ADEA.
- Workers' compensation law.
- Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.
Trade Secrets & Trademarks
Protection of a company's intellectual property is vital to its success. We help companies protect, acquire and develop their important intellectual property assets, whatever they may be - patents, trademarks, aesthetic design, trade dress, copyright, trade secrets or domain names in the United States and internationally. When necessary, we go to court to enforce our clients' intellectual property rights or defend against charges of infringement.
Our intellectual property services include the following:
- The registration, protection, enforcement and licensing of trademarks, patents and copyrights in the U.S. and abroad.
- Counseling on the issues of right to use, infringement, trade dress violation and unfair business practices.
- Contracting for rights of ownership in the creation of copyrighted works.
- Copyright, software, information and content licensing in traditional and new media.
- Due diligence investigations with regard to ownership, title, licensing and infringement issues.
- Infringement litigation for trademarks patents and copyrights.
- Negotiating and drafting distribution and licensing agreements.
- Internet counseling, including drafting and negotiating all kinds of Internet agreements, resolving domain name disputes, drafting and negotiating technology and other computer hardware and software licenses.
Real Estate
Even though your business may not be real estate, at some point, you or your company will probably need some real estate counseling. Whether you are seeking advice for a new home purchase, raw land development or commercial lease, we have the expertise to help you. We handle all types of development, purchase and sale, financing and leasing transactions.
We provide the following types of real estate services:
- Negotiating and drafting commercial leases, including triple-net leases, ground leases and sales-leaseback agreements.
- Negotiating and drafting purchase and sale agreements.
- Assisting clients with real estate financing.
- Assisting clients with the development of raw land.
- Commercial landlord-tenant litigation.
Emerging Companies
We provide a broad range of legal services to start-up and emerging companies. We take an idea or vision and give it roots and a life. First, we form the company. Then, we help maintain the corporate entity by ensuring its compliance with all laws and regulations. We also provide a wide range of legal services in the areas of labor and employment, intellectual property, business facilitation, entertainment and media, real estate and litigation. We add value to the company by providing sound legal advice and helping the company solve problems with creative and cost-effective solutions. We stay involved with the company from start to finish - through mergers and acquisitions, sale and dissolution.
Our broad experience allows us to meet a company's every legal need and we pride ourselves on providing more than just legal services. We listen to what our clients want and we give them results that they demand. In turn, our clients have rewarded us with long lasting friendships and their business.
We help emerging companies with the following:
- Selecting a corporate form, whether it be a sole proprietorship, corporation, limited partnership, general partnership, LLC, etc.
- Maintaining the corporation by drafting corporate resolutions, advising clients on recent changes in the law, assisting companies to qualify for business in other states, obtaining business licenses, advising clients on how to comply with various laws and regulations, advising clients on technology trends, etc.
- Buying and selling assets, merging or dissolving.
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