PRACTICE AREAS

Banking & Finance
The firm has a long history of representing major financial institutions. Firm lawyers actively participate in the structuring and negotiation of financing transactions involving the expansion and operation of business, the construction of commercial buildings, the leasing of equipment, and the development of subdivisions, planned communities, and shopping malls.

Bankruptcy & Collections
The firm’s bankruptcy practice is primarily large creditor oriented.  Firm lawyers also represent a number of in-state and out-of-state creditors in collections of commercial loans.

Corporate, Tax & Real Estate
Firm lawyers engage in all areas of business consultation, including organization, financing, acquisition, taxation and specific transaction-related advice.  Firm lawyers also offers expertise in state and local tax issues and provides estate planning services to individual firm clients.  The firm’s real estate practice encompasses virtually every aspect of residential, office, industrial, and commercial real estate development.

Family & Marital Law
Family law focuses on family relationships. It encompasses the adoption of a child and the guardianship of a grandparent. Its breadth ranges from paternity to probate and includes everything from pre-nuptial agreements to post-divorce custody challenges. And yes, it includes divorce, together with the division of marital assets and the settlement of custody disputes. Because family law touches on so many different aspects of your life – often involving the most important decisions you will ever make at the most stressful times you will ever know – you need an attorney that will not only use skill and experience to evaluate your case and advise you of your legal rights, but someone who is equally good at listening and understanding what’s important to you. Family law is our job, but it’s your life. Let us help.

Labor & Employment Law
The firm’s labor and employment lawyers are experienced in all aspects of this increasingly sensitive area of the law, including such issues as wage and hour, wrongful termination, NLRB, OSHA compliance, equal employment, ESC, collective bargaining, employment discrimination, employee handbooks and policy, and drug testing policies and procedures.

Litigation
The firm's litigation practice is broad-based, including tort, construction, family law, and commercial matters. Insurance defense litigation such as negligence, professional malpractice and liability, aviation, automobile, personal injury, products liability, and wrongful death occupies a significant portion of our practice.

Municipal, Land Use & Condemnation
Firm lawyers represent cities and boroughs throughout Alaska in such areas as land use, planning and zoning, regulatory compliance, condemnation, ordinance structuring, contracts, procurement, and administrative hearings.

Natural Resources, Mining And Environmental Law
Firm lawyers represent clients in the areas of oil and gas, superfund, mining claims, hazardous waste, public lands, natural resource development, federal, state and local environmental law, administrative appeals, and transactional advice.

Probate & Estate Planning
The firm’s probate and estate planning lawyers serve the firm’s clients in the areas of asset management, individual tax planning, wills and trusts, probate, and charitable giving.