Downtown Tampa and Brandon, Florida

How can your organization avoid litigation costs?

Legal counseling for your business may be the most vital and important defense. It yields the highest return on a limited legal budget. Most business owners and managers wait too long before calling their attorney - when all the attorney can do for them is represent them in a lawsuit.

I provide advice daily to government and corporate managers on how to avoid litigation by understanding issues and problem areas. I counsel businesses and local governmental entities in avoiding personnel disputes and potential discrimination claims, such as EEOC claims involving age, sex, and race, as well as claims under the American's With Disabilities Act (the ADA) and The Family and Medical Leave Act (the FMLA).

Do your policies and procedures provide you with the protection that you think they do? How would a court interpret them? I can review your policies and procedures and propose changes that instill the protection your organization needs.

Important business correspondence is produced daily. Do you know the important elements that should be incorporated into every piece of business correspondence? If your organization is sued, every document, piece of correspondence, memorandum, and e-mail your organization has written will be examined by an opposing attorney for damaging and incriminating evidence against you. Do you know how a judge would analyze your correspondence?

Your daily correspondence should be viewed as a tool to explain your evidence and "present your case" before a problem starts. I can review your correspondence to ensure that it is building your case, not undermining it. Don't wait until you are sued to discover what you have really said in your business correspondence. Daily my clients fax me copies of their important business correspondence. I review it, make editing suggestions as necessary, and fax it back to them for mailing.

I can provide legal counseling services to your organization. In a 10-minute telephone call, I can explain legal issues and guide you through problem areas, thereby helping you to avoid the threat of litigation all together.

Legal counseling is a sound business practice. Your lawyer can help keep your organization from becoming the victim of a lawsuit.