Law Firm Overview

Our Firm Goals to Accomplish that Mission:

• Major Firm Quality
• Small Firm Personal Attention
• Traditional Loyalty to the Client, Confidentiality and Integrity
• Cutting Edge Ideas, Strategies and Advocacy

In modern, complex transactions and complex litigation, winning does not always mean defeating every adversary, taking advantage of every opportunity, or grabbing everything and leaving nothing for opposing parties. In complex transactions, especially those involving continuing business relations, developing trust may be more valuable and worth sacrificing an advantage. In complex litigation, co-defendants may gain more by sacrificing some of their cross-claims against each other, in order to avoid making the plaintiffs’ case by such attacks on each other. In continuing complex litigation, like asbestos litigation, it is not enough to win, if winning costs so much effort and expense that the repeated cost of successful defenses of multiple law suits produces an unsustainable cumulative cost.

A competitive advantage to our clients from using our firm, is that the integration of our business and transaction practice and our litigation practice, means that our attorneys never lose sight of the fact that legal fees are business expenses, and like all business expenses, they must be able to stand up to cost-benefit scrutiny. We will not propound discovery or make motions just because we can. We will not spend our clients’ money just because that is the customary or “standard procedure.” And we will not recommend a strategy or tactic because it allows us to maximize the lawyers’ billable hours and revenues.

Like professional sports and even some college Division I sport programs, some law firms have grown so big that their corporate mentality and the economic necessity of corporate growth and profit can cloud the traditional professionalism. To a true professional, whether a physician or a lawyer, loyalty and fidelity to the patient or client requires even the sacrifice of the professional’s own interests to those of the client. Winning means doing what is right and best for our client, always, no matter the consequences.

Being small makes us nimble. We are not bogged down in meetings, administration, or “standard procedures.” We can innovate. We can imagine and turn imagination into new strategies, plans and tactics.

One of our most important goals is “get it right.” No mistakes.

Areas of Practice

• Agriculture Law
• Asbestos
• Auto Dealer Fraud
• Bad Faith Insurance
• Banking & Finance Law
• Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Creditors Rights
• Business & Commercial Law 15%
• Business Litigation
• Business Organizations
• Civil Rights
• Cogeneration
• Commercial Leasing
• Commercial Real Estate
• Complex Litigation
• Condemnation
• Condominiums & Cooperatives
• Construction Contracts
• Construction Law
• Construction Liens
• Construction Litigation
• Contracts
• Conveyancing
• Corporate Taxation
• Corporations, Partnerships and Contracts
• Debtor/Creditor
• Discrimination
• Eminent Domain
• Employment Law -- Employer
• Estate Planning
• Ethics & Professional Responsibility
• Farms & Ranches
• Formation & Business Planning
• Franchising
• Health & Health Care Law
• Housing & Construction Defects
• Hydroelectricity
• Income Taxation
• Insurance Coverage Dispute Resolution and Litigation
• Insurance Defense
• Insurance Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• International Law
• International Transactions
• Internet
• Internet -- Cyberspace
• Joint Ventures
• Labor Law, Employment Discrimination and Wrongful Termination
• Land Use & Zoning
• Landlord/Tenant
• Leasing
• Legal Malpractice
• Limited Liability Companies
• Litigation & Appeals 50%
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Mortgages & Foreclosures
• Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
• Nursing Home
• Partnerships
• Personal and Business Injury
• Personal Injury -- Plaintiff 5%
• Premises Liability -- Defense
• Premises Liability -- Plaintiff
• Private Placements
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Products Liability Law
• Property (Ad Valorem) Taxes
• Property Damage -- Defense
• Property Damage -- Plaintiff
• Real Estate Acquisition, Development and Financing
• Real Estate Law
• Residential Real Estate
• Secured Transactions
• Securities Law
• Sexual Harassment
• Shared Ownerships for Co-Owners and Families
• State & Municipal Bonds & Financing
• Subdivision Development, Land Entitlements, Permits and Public Financing
• Tax Litigation and Disputes
• Tax Planning and Tax-Free Exchanges and Financing
• Taxation Law
• Technology Licensing
• Title Insurance
• Toxic Torts
• Trademarks
• Transactions
• Trusts
• Uniform Commercial Code
• Warranties
• Wills
• Wrongful Death -- Defense

Representative Clients

• Parsons Energy & Chemicals Group Inc.
• Chicago Bridge and Iron Co.

West Practice Categories

Licensing, Agriculture Law, Farms & Ranches, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Auto Dealer Fraud, Bad Faith Insurance, Banking & Finance Law, Foreclosure & Alternatives, Public Finance, State & Municipal Bonds & Financing, Bankruptcy Law, Business & Commercial Law, Commercial Leasing, Contracts, Debtor/Creditor, Franchising, International Transactions, Joint Ventures, Secured Transactions, Transactions, Uniform Commercial Code, Warranties, Business Organizations, Formation & Business Planning, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships, Civil Rights, Sexual Harassment, Internet, Discrimination, Eminent Domain, Construction Law, Construction Contracts, Construction Liens, Housing & Construction Defects, Employment Discrimination -- Employee, Wrongful Termination -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Cogeneration, Hydroelectricity, Permits, Estate Planning, Trusts, Wills, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Health & Health Care Law, Nursing Home, Insurance Defense, Insurance Law, Title Insurance, Intellectual Property Law, Technology Licensing, Trademarks, International Law, Internet -- Cyberspace, Labor Law, Litigation & Appeals, Complex Litigation, Tax Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Personal Injury -- Defense, Premises Liability -- Defense, Property Damage -- Defense, Wrongful Death -- Defense, Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff, Premises Liability -- Plaintiff, Property Damage -- Plaintiff, Probate & Estate Administration, Products Liability Law, Asbestos, Legal Malpractice, Real Estate Law, Commercial Real Estate, Condemnation, Condominiums & Cooperatives, Conveyancing, Land Use & Zoning, Landlord/Tenant, Residential Real Estate, Securities Law, Private Placements, Taxation Law, Corporate Taxation, Income Taxation, Property (Ad Valorem) Taxes, Toxic Torts