Law Firm Overview

Manos, Martin, Pergram & Dietz Co., LPA is a firm of professionals whose goal is to provide exemplary legal service to our clients. We commit one hundred percent of our talents, resources and abilities to serving our clients' interests and needs. Our lawyers are both advocates and counselors. Our clients are clients of the firm, thereby having available to them the diverse talents and experience of all the lawyers within the firm. We seek to earn and maintain the respect of clients, our colleagues, and the legal community, as well as enhance our self-respect by providing outstanding professional services to our clients.

The firm that is now Manos, Martin Pergram & Dietz Co., LPA is the result of the 1990 merger of Peter J. Manos Co., L.P.A., formed in Delaware in 1951, and Martin, Pergram, formed in Columbus in 1975. The firm has developed a solid reputation for providing exemplary, cost-effective legal counsel. The firm has a ratingof AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5 (the highest rating) by Martindale-Hubbell, and has the distinction, shared by less than 18,000 lawyers and law firms in the United States and Canada, of being listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. Our reputation is a result of our lawyers' diverse backgrounds, skills and experience in representing clients in a variety of fields, and our lawyers' and highly professional support staff's skills, efforts and commitment to serving our clients.

In all matters, we undertake to represent each of our clients as we ourselves would want to be represented. As lawyers, each of us commits to excel in our individual areas of practice, and to providing our clients the full benefit of our knowledge, abilities, and efforts.

We recognize that success requires a solid investment in human and technical resources. We operate in a businesslike manner, employing all the benefits and economies of modern technology and efficient organization.

Areas of Practice

• Business Law (Business Organizations, Litigation & Regulator)
• School Law
• Employment Law - Employer
• Estate Planning and Probate
• Public Law
• Real Estate - Commercial and Residential
• Zoning, Planning & Land Use

Pro Bono Activities

• Community Foundation of Delaware County
• Main Street Delaware, Inc.
• Marion Palace Theatre
• Delaware Speech & Hearing Center
• Strand Theatre & Cultural Arts
• Thurber House
• Common Ground Free Store
• Martin Luther King Committee

West Practice Categories

Administrative Law, Administrative Hearings & Adjudication, Business & Commercial Law, Commercial Leasing, Contracts, Debtor/Creditor, Transactions, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Limited Liability Companies, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Construction Law, Construction Contracts, Construction Liens, Education Law, Public Schools, Employment Law -- Employer, Affirmative Action -- Employer, Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employer, Employee Rights -- Employer, Employment Contracts -- Employer, Employment Discrimination -- Employer, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employer, Sexual Harassment -- Employer, Wage & Hour Laws -- Employer, Wrongful Termination -- Employer, Estate Planning, Guardianships & Conservatorships, Living Wills, Powers of Attorney and Appointment, Trusts, Wills, Trade Secrets, Litigation & Appeals, Complex Litigation, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Probate & Estate Administration, Estate Administration, Real Estate Law, Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums & Cooperatives, Conveyancing, Land Use & Zoning, Landlord/Tenant, Residential Real Estate, State, Local & Municipal Law, Municipal Corporations