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Our legal services include:
Estates & Trusts |
Corporate/Business Law
| Real Estate Law
Banking & Transactional
Estates & Trusts Our
estate planning practice ranges from routine asset
allocation to more complex succession planning. While some
clients wish to strictly minimize certain tax implications,
others have unique business or family goals which may affect
the estate planning process. We work closely with our
clients to understand their individual needs and to develop
an estate plan to meet their goals.
Services provided by our firm include:
- Wills and Trust Agreements
- Estate and Gift Tax Planning
- Estate Administration
- Trust Administration
- Health Care Directives
- Charitable Gift Planning
- Guardianships
- Powers-of Attorney
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Corporate/Business Law
Throughout our firm's history, we have provided
reliable general representation to local, regional and
national businesses. We advise our business clients on
issues ranging from entity formation to business
succession planning. Whether your business is wrestling
with a contract issue, an employment issue, a leasing
issue or a financing issue, our attorneys have the
experience to help your company properly function and
grow.
Services provided by our firm include:
- Business Formation (Incorporation, Limited Liability
Companies, Partnerships)
- Buy-Sell Agreements
- Non-Compete and Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Contract Drafting and Negotiation
- Commercial Lease Drafting and Negotiation
- Loan Document Review and Negotiation
- Employment Agreement review
- Collection Litigation
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Real Estate Law HJ&S has a
diverse and comprehensive real estate practice. Our
clients include businesses that operate extensively in
the real estate industry, businesses faced with a real
estate issue arising from their day-to-day operations
and individual clients in need of assistance with a
specific real estate matter. We represent developers,
builders, national banks, savings banks, mortgage
bankers and other financial institutions, title
insurance companies, landlords and tenants.
Through our affiliate, Fenton Title Company, HJ&S
provides settlement services for residential and
commercial purchases on new construction and re-sales,
as well as refinance, home equity and related financing.
We can assist clients if they are sellers, buyers,
lenders or participants with such parties. We also
provide services to developers in the preparation of
homeowner's association covenants and by-laws and to
homeowners and homeowners associations on disputes in
court and before the Montgomery County Commission on
Common Ownership Communities.
Services provided by our firm include:
- Residential and Commercial Closings
- Title Examination & Opinions
- Title Insurance issuance
- Lease Drafting, Review and Negotiation
- Foreclosure Representation
- Creditor's Rights/Bankruptcy
- Representation in Real Property Litigation
- Contract Drafting, Review and Negotiation
- Loan Document Drafting, Review and Negotiation
- Representation in Home Owners Association Matters
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Banking & Transactional
HJ&S continues to build on its long history involving
the representation of local, regional and national
banks, savings banks, commercial mortgage brokers,
loan servicing companies, insurance companies and
other financial institutions. Through the years,
several members of our firm have served as general
counsel and/or directors of various banking and
insurance institutions.
Our practice has a high concentration in matters
involving all aspects of loan origination and closing,
including the preparation of loan commitment letters,
preparation of loan and security documents, title
review, survey examination, underwriting compliance,
settlements and settlement coordination. We have
assisted lenders, in conjunction with local legal
counsel, in over 30 states and the District of
Columbia.
The firm also represents lenders in the work-out of
nonperforming loans and in foreclosure of such loans
in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Services provided by our firm include:
- Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Loan
Transaction Documents
- Closing Commercial Loan Transactions
- Underwriting Compliance Advice
- Loan Workout Representation
- Creditor's Rights/Bankruptcy Representation
- Contract Review
- Deposit Account & Regulatory Review
- Representation in Commercial Litigation
- Representation in Collection Matters
- Representation in Employment Matters
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