Criminal Law

• Fraud
  On graduating with his LLM, James joined a boutique plaintiff class-action securities law firm, where he worked on multi-national securities derivative class actions and securities fraud class-actions on behalf of pension funds and investment funds. James then spent several years working as a solo practitioner focusing on real estate litigation, during which time he gained extensive experience and expertise in all manner of real estate disputes, including representing both homeowners and associations in HOA/Condo Association disputes.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
• Business Formation
  In addition, MBK Chapman’s business attorneys and corporate lawyers provide the firm’s business/corporate clients with a full spectrum of corporate and business litigation and transactional services. When it comes to the firm’s litigation department, for example, MBK Chapman’s business litigation attorneys have more than 60 years of combined experience navigating the firm’s clients through a whole host of business-related trials and court disputes involving complex issues like breach of contract, fraud, unfair business practices, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty, intellectual property infringement, and labor/employment law. But MBK Chapman’s business and corporate lawyers don’t just excel at representing the firm’s clients in court. The firm’s transactional attorneys act as corporate counsel to a large number of companies, offering a wide array of corporate/business transactional services. From long-established businesses to untested start-ups, MBK Chapman’s crack team of business and corporate lawyers rely on decades of hands-on experience counseling the firm’s clients through the myriad daily challenges that arise in any successful, growing, and dynamic business, including: business formation, negotiations, drafting business agreements, protection of intellectual property, labor/employment, corporate compliance, asset protection, and franchising.
• Business Disputes
• Business Transactions
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  Raised in Philadelphia, Mr. Seidmon attended Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. After obtaining his bachelor of arts in business, Mr. Seidmon  relocated to South Florida and attended the Shepard Broad College of Law at Nova Southeastern University, where he received his Juris Doctor. While in law school, Mr. Seidmon served on the board for several student associations and co-founded the Intellectual Property Law Society.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Led by two pioneering and highly experienced litigation and business attorneys, MBK Chapman is staffed by some of the most impressive legal minds in the business. Leveraging decades of actual courtroom and transactional transactional experience, clients who retain MBK Chapman quickly discover why the firm has earned such a stellar reputation for its innovation, staunch advocacy, and winning record. Whether aimed at negotiating and resolving highly complex business and real estate disputes, drafting all manner of complex business and real estate contracts, or going to court to litigate business and real estate cases, the battle-hardened lawyers at MBK Chapman are truly the best in the business.
• Premises Liability
  Following law school, Mr. Seidmon worked as a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Service of Broward County, where he sharpened his litigation skills. After Legal Aid, Mr. Seidmon began working in-house for a large private investment company in Miami, where he gained invaluable and insightful experience both in personal injury law, as well as in the compliance and corporate governance fields with respect to insurance companies. Mr. Seidmon then returned to litigation, working for a large firm in South Florida practicing in construction defect and premises liability law.
• Construction Litigation
• Real Estate Transactions
  Mr. Kushner’s practice areas currently include business transactions, franchise law, corporate governance, labor and employment, real estate transactions, and entertainment law. In the business/corporate arena, Mr. Kushner has substantial experience in structuring and negotiating complex commercial transactions and drafting all manner of business related contracts. Mr. Kushner’s corporate transactional practice includes general representation of large, well-established companies, as well as start-ups and family owned businesses. In recent years, Mr. Kushner expanded his corporate transactional practice to include multi-national businesses located in China, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Hong Kong.
• Easement

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  After earning her master’s degree, Ms. Grazul honed her legal skills while working for a civil litigation firm representing clients in personal injury cases, contract disputes, and various tort actions. Ms. Grazul joined MBK Chapman in 2022 as an associate in the firm’s litigation department.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  After obtaining her law degree, Ms. Etemadi worked at a boutique plaintiffs’ litigation firm, where she successfully prosecuted a variety of cases relating to premises and common carrier liability and real estate litigation. Ms. Etemadi also honed her legal skills performing legal work for various non-profit organizations and governmental agencies. In 2017, Ms. Etemadi began working for Michael Kushner at the law firm he founded and managed, where she gained extensive experience in all aspects of corporate compliance and real estate law, with a primary focus on representing homeowners in HOA disputes.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  During law school, James was inducted into the Order of the Barristers, received Honors in Litigation Skills, and was awarded a Foreclosure Defense Fellowship from his law school to continue his legal studies. As part of the Fellowship, James attended the University of Miami School of Law in the Real Property Development LLM Program.