The firm has specialized expertise in the areas of technology, licensing, alternative energy and public utility law. In the finance area, the firm's experience includes the full range of bank regulatory and lending activities. The firm provides specialized work in the regulatory areas governing delivery and payment for health care and serves as counsel to providers with respect to corporate reorganizations, certificates of need, medical staff privileges, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust counseling, physician contracts, capital finance and patient consent and treatment matters. When litigation is a necessity, the firm's clients are served by an experienced group of trial practitioners. Firm lawyers sharpen their trial skills through participation in such outside training programs as the week-long program of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.
Vigorous advocacy is combined with an understanding of disputes.
The firm subscribes to The Center for Public Resources' Law Firm Policy Statement which commits it to have appropriate lawyers in the firm knowledgeable about Alternative Dispute Resolution and to discuss its availability with clients in appropriate cases so that the client can make an informed choice concerning resolution of the dispute. The firm's litigators have had significant trial experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in all major areas of court and administrative proceedings. These services include financial and asset analysis, preparation of dispositive instruments including durable powers of attorney, revocable and irrevocable lifetime trusts, testamentary trusts and wills. The firm counsels clients, in conjunction with health care providers if desired, concerning terminal care documents including living wills and durable health care powers of attorney. The firm's probate counsel and staff provide all services necessary for the settlement of estates in all probate courts statewide.