Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP

About this office:

Established in 1913, Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP is a full-service law firm with offices in Akron, Cleveland and Canton, Ohio and Boca Raton, Florida. Its attorneys represent clients from the sole proprietor to multinational corporations, tax-exempt organizations, governmental bodies, charities, foundations and public organizations.

The focus of the Firm's corporate practice is on legal issues affecting closely held businesses including start-up joint ventures, agreements among shareholders, corporate reorganization and business contracts. Buckingham attorneys have expertise in mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, succession planning and related areas of significance to rapidly expanding business organizations and also provide trusts and estates and probate services to individual clients.

The Litigation Practice of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP has steadily grown to meet the increasingly complex legal demands of the Firm's clients. Areas of focus include appellate, commercial law and litigation, construction, domestic relations, employment, school law, medical malpractice and workers' compensation. The Firm is committed to finding innovative solutions to clients' legal problems. The breadth of its practice in all forums often enables the Firm to avoid disputes by providing legal guidance before problems arise.

Buckingham's clients are representative of virtually every industry and trade, including transportation, food production, chemical manufacturing and distribution, rubber and tire manufacturing, technology, automotive, steel, agriculture and horticulture, financial and banking, insurance and medical, accounting and other professional practices.

Appellate, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Closely Held Companies, Commercial Law and Litigation, Computer and Technology, Construction Law, Copyrights, Corporate and Business, Creditors Rights/Bankruptcy, Criminal Law, Elder Law, Employment Law, Environmental, Estate Planning, Family Law, Finance and Public Law, Franchise, Health Care, Immigration Law, Insurance Defense, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Land Use and Zoning, Medical Malpractice Defense, Mergers and Acquisitions, Patents, Probate, Publicly Held Companies, Real Estate, School Law, Securities, Succession Planning, Taxation and Employee Benefits, Toxic Tort/Complex Litigation, Trademarks/Service Marks, Trade Secrets, Trial, Trusts and Estates, Venture Capital/Emerging Companies, Workers' Compensation.

Monitoring Irrevocable Trusts - Trustee Responsibililty
Hillary B. Taylor, May 13, 2009
A low-interest-rate economy with depressed values for stock, closely-held companies and real estate is often an ideal time for wealth-transfer planning.

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