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Civil Litigation

Commercial & Civil Litigation

Whether it's business or personal

Commercial & Civil Litigation

When you and another business or person cannot agree on something important, consider hiring an attorney to help you negotiate a reasonable settlement. Settling is often quicker, less costly, and more predictable than litigation. 

 

But when they sue you or you have no choice but to sue them, hire an earnest litigator who will protect your best interests. And who is not afraid of the courtroom!

 

If you are sued, your attorney typically has a very short time  to answer. And then the deadlines for counterclaims and discovery kick in.

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Yablon Law loves winning and going to trial if settlement talks fail. But again, we try to settle so you may sidestep the courtroom and related stress and costs and because you never know how a judge or jury may rule. Examples of litigation matters include the following:

 

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution

  • Asset Recovery

  • Attorney Fees Requests

  • Bankruptcy and Restructuring 

  • Boundary Disputes

  • Breach of Contract

  • Breach of Fiduciary Duty

  • Class Action

  • Collections

  • Construction

  • Conversion

  • Corporate Governance

  • Deceptive Trade Practices

  • Defamation

  • Demand Letters and Pre-Litigation Negotiations

  • E-discovery

  • Eminent Domain

  • Fraud

  • Franchises

  • Garnishment

  • Insurance

  • Landlord-Tenant

  • Misappropriation of Trade Secrets

  • Non-competes

  • Personal Injury

  • Product Liability

  • Property Damage

  • Real Estate 

  • Securities

  • Trade Secrets

  • Trespass

  • Trusts and Estates 

  • Turnover

  • Unfair Debt Collection

  • Warranty Breaches

  • Writ of Execution

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Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a tool to help individuals and businesses successfully navigate Bankruptcy can also help more efficiently manage litigation by bringing all parties from one court or many courts into bankruptcy court to resolve all issues in one place with one judge. Bankruptcy can be used as an offensive or defensive legal strategy in real estate, probate, family court, civil court, and other practice areas.

 

We help debtors—individuals and businesses—file bankruptcy to give them a fresh start to pursue their dreams again. We also help creditors protect their rights against just debtors and not-so-just debtors. 

 

Yablon Law helps clients in the following areas related to bankruptcy: 

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  • Chapter 11 business reorganization

  • Chapter 7 business or personal liquidation

  • Chapter 13 personal reorganization

  • Adversary (when a creditor claims the debtor committed fraud or other exception to bankruptcy rules, a court may deny relief otherwise available to the debtor)

  • Appeals

  • Attorney Fee & Cost Reimbursement

  • Automatic Stay

  • E-discovery & Traditional Discovery

  • Enforcement

  • Family Law [include link to that practice]

  • Foreclosure & Repossession

  • Fraud

  • General Counsel & Transactions [include link to that practice]

  • I.R.S. Income Taxes from Several Years Ago

  • Interact with Executors, Independent and Dependent Administrators, Receivers, Trustees, Court Personnel, Ad Litems, Investigators, Expert and Lay Witnesses, Creditors, Debtors, and Content or Disgruntled Everyone Else

  • Liens, Lien Releases, Lis Pendens

  • Motions to Compel or for Contempt

  • Foreclosure and Repossession

  • Restructuring business agreements and debt

  • Real Estate & Construction 

  • Commercial & Civil Litigation 

  • Family Law 

  • Probate 

  • Restructuring Business Agreements and Debt

  • Student Loan Discharge (new rules have made it somewhat easier to discharge)

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Real Estate & Construction

Real estate is at the heart of family and business wealth, and, not surprisingly, a lot of litigation and deal making. Mark P. Yablon is a former commercial real estate

re-developer and U.S. Navy Seabee who combines his decades of real estate and construction experience with his legal knowledge and experience to advise and represent clients in litigation or trials.

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Yablon Law helps clients (landlords, tenants, buyers, sellers, contractors, owners, etc.) in the following advisory, transactional, and litigation areas:

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  • Bankruptcy 

  • Boundary Disputes 

  • Breach of Contract 

  • Buyer-Seller 

  • Commercial or Residential Sales and Leases 

  • Construction 

  • Deeds of Trust 

  • Demand Letters and Pre-litigation Settlements 

  • Eminent Domain 

  • Environmental Contamination 

  • Evictions 

  • Family Law [link to Family Law practice] 

  • Financing (Owner, Private, Public, Commercial) 

  • Foreclosure 

  • Fraud 

  • Injunctions 

  • Investments & Investors 

  • Interact with Executors, Independent and Dependent Administrators, Receivers, Trustees, Court Personnel, Ad Litems, Investigators, Expert and Lay Witnesses, Creditors, Debtors, Sellers, Owners, Landlords, Tenants, Contractors, Architects, Suppliers, Lenders, Surveyors, Title Companies, and Content or Disgruntled Everyone Else

  • Ladybird Deeds 

  • Landlord-Tenant 

  • Lender-Borrower (Owner Financed, Commercial Lender, Private Lender) 

  • Liens, Lien Releases, Lis Pendens 

  • Partition of Land 

  • Personal Injury [link to that practice] 

  • Premises Liability 

  • Probate [link to Probate] 

  • Property Conveyance 

  • Property Division 

  • Quiet Title 

  • Real Estate Litigation, Arbitration, or Mediation [link to Commercial & Civil Litigation practice] 

  • Slip and Fall  

  • Title Work and Real Estate Closings 

  • Trespass 

  • Transfer on Death Deeds 

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Estate & Business Planning

Planning for death, disability, and retirement is not the only aspect of estate & business planning. It also involves planning for medical and end-of-life decisions, asset protection if litigation arise one day, Medicaid planning, estate tax minimization, selling to or buying out business partners/members/shareholders, and more.

 

Good estate and business planning also may preserve relationships or minimize fighting among beneficiaries, heirs, business partners, employees, lenders, and other creditors.

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Yablon Law offers several different estate and business planning packages for individuals, couples, and businesses that include the following:

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  • Basic Will

  • Company Buy-Sell Agreements and Funding

  • Company Key Person Agreements and Funding

  • Declaration of Guardian for Children

  • Disability Insurance Planning and Funding

  • Elder Law

  • HIPAA Release

  • Ladybird Deeds 

  • Life Insurance Planning and Funding

  • LLC, Shareholder, Partnership, and Joint Venture Formation, Operating Agreements, and Termination

  • Long-Term Care Insurance Planning and Funding

  • Medicaid Planning

  • Medical Power of Attorney

  • Physician Directives

  • Durable Power of Attorney

  • Real Estate, Royalties, and Other Property Division 

  • Transfer on Death Deeds

  • Trusts (revocable, irrevocable, spendthrift, special needs, etc.)

  • Trusts & Estates Litigation 

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Disability & Life Insurance Disputes

Have you bought disability or long-term care insurance to financially protect you and your family when an injury or illness strikes, and it keeps you from working or prevents you from taking care of your basic daily activities or providing for your loved ones? Thought Social Security would pay when your disability keeps you from working? Did a loved one buy life insurance to take care of you?  

 

When that tragic day arrives when you are disabled or a loved one has passed, you expect your insurance carrier to pay as contractually agreed or that Social Security or the VA will be there for you as promised. But sometimes that does not happen—especially with certain carriers known to be difficult at claims time. This also happens when you lack the expertise to pour through reams of medical records and to hire the right medical or vocational experts to support your case. Or it could happen when you fail to successfully plow through the administrative or legal process to file a successful claim based on the evidence, medical or vocational experts for and against you, and the law applicable in your specific situation. 

 

Before you are denied, hire Yablon Law and our partners on a contingency fee basis to fight hard for you to get what the insurance company, Social Security, or the VA owes you. If we cannot collect, you owe nothing. But if we collect through negotiation, trial, appeal, or otherwise, you keep the majority of the proceeds after expenses. 

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*The individuals pictured are not associated with

Yablon Law.

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