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The Simmons Firm, ALC, counsels individuals and businesses. Our clients face a wide variety of legal needs, including contract drafting and review, labor compliance matters, routine tax analyses, real estate transactions and title matters, leasing and sales, and a sundry array of other concerns. The cornerstone of this practice is in assisting start-up ventures in entity selection, founders’ issues, transactions and documentation, and thereafter, maintaining a business through their periodic transactional tasks.

Corporate Law / Small Business Counseling / General Business Matters

It is difficult to avoid encountering legal issues in your road to success. The expertise of this firm lies in advising and assisting clients with the numerous legal and financial challenges facing today’s businesses. Although we work mostly with small to medium-size corporations, The Simmons Firm, ALC, presently represents a number of Fortune 500 companies, has appeared in court in several federal and state jurisdictions, and has successfully closed corporate and real estate transactions in over half of the fifty states. Its services are in:

  • Contract Drafting
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Corporate Finance and Securities Law
  • Banking Transactions
  • Taxes
  • Bankruptcy Matters
  • Business Reorganizations
  • Business Sales
  • Dissolutions

Business & Real Estate Transactions

This firm’s practice deals significantly with a broad range of real estate matters. We provide representation from companies to retail clients, to individuals who are in the business of purchasing, selling, managing and leasing various types of property. Matters of concern may involve:

  • Environmental, land use and zoning regulations associated with real estate transactions
  • Purchase and sale of various types of property
  • Reviewing, negotiating and drafting of residential, office and commercial leases

Entity Formation & Maintenance

When starting your own business, there are, indeed, other alternatives to the method by which you chose to form your entity, such as doing it yourself online. However, we at The Simmons Firm, ALC, believe that it is vital for any business to form the entity most suited for its needs, preferably through consultations with legal professionals. Although conventional wisdom dictates it is inconsequential, it has been our experience that the cost of seeking expert legal advice from the very start pales in comparison to the cost associated with cleaning up should liability issues or litigations arise due to ineffectual formation.

In the same regard, we do not always advise clients to form entities when we believe there is no reason to incur the ongoing expense of entity formation and maintenance. The expense does not always justify the benefits. In some cases, clients may have reasons to form an entity other than with rigid legal concerns. Our job is to ensure that the clients are aware of the best option for them along with the pros and cons associated with the type of formation, as well as the tax ramifications. Attention may need focus on any, if not most, of the following:

  • Secretary of State filings of organizational and annual documents for corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and non-profits
  • Maintenance of corporate records, annual shareholder and board of directors meeting minutes, etc.
  • Drafting of organizational and operational documents such as operating agreements, bylaws, partnership agreements, stock option agreements, shareholder agreements, etc.
  • Fictitious business name filings

Labor & Employment Law Guidance

Labor law compliance matters are vital to today’s businesses. There are severe legal and financial consequences involved in noncompliance. The Simmons Firm, ALC, pays special attention on anticipating and avoiding employment problems before they result in legal action or costly litigation. Matters to consider and prepare for may include:

  • Preventive Employee Relations (development of employee handbook and policies, human resources audits, sexual harassment prevention, diversity training, workplace health and safety compliance)
  • Business Transactions (reviewing of contracts and drafting of employment, compensation, severance agreements, etc.)
  • Employment-At-Will (Counseling and drafting of policies and measure to protect employers from accountability for tort or contract claims liability)
  • Dispute Resolution

Risk-Minimization Strategies

We pride ourselves on our breadth of experience in preventive law, which helps protect our clients’ interests and confidentiality and avoid lawsuits or reduce liability should claims arise. Our attorneys are prepared to approach any form of legal situation in any area of law. We understand that each client is different, each industry is different, each deal is different, and each circumstance is different. We identify and address these differences, creating a product specifically tailored for the client and the legal issues they face.

We have the confidence and the expertise to create an end product that will be as good as or superior to that which is available anywhere else. Our billing rates are intentionally under-market to permit our practitioners the extra time it takes to dig just a little deeper, to know just a little more, and to be just a little better.

Trademarks & Copyrights

The Simmons Firm, ALC, offers an array of intellectual property and technology services, including, when necessary, prosecution. We have expert knowledge concerning the legal guidelines associated with trademark, copyright, and licensing, as well as extensive experience in dealing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Our expertise includes legal and investigative research to discover, resolve and challenge infringements.

Dispute Resolution

The Simmons Firm, ALC, has a published, successful appellate opinion to its credit. Even though we are not an appellate firm, we have skillfully represented companies in litigation matters from California to New York.
Ultimately, the firm is about people, and we want people to stay out of harm’s way. We strive to find an effective and expedient way to resolve issues keeping litigation a last resort either through us or with our assistance in selecting the appropriate legal representatives.