Family Law

• Divorce
• Child Custody and Visitation
• Spousal Support

Criminal Law

• Theft

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Business Formation
• Business Disputes
  Wisler Pearlstine’s lawyers have significant experience in the representation of sureties, property owners, institutions, municipalities, architects, engineers, contractors, and subcontractors in various construction-related disputes, including allegations of defective construction, contract disputes, lien claims, payment claims, and improper design and pass through claims. We have handled all kinds of matters, including...
• Business Transactions
  The General Counsel Initiative leadership team has over 100 years of cumulative experience in the areas of law most relevant to small and midsize businesses, such as employment law, contract drafting, risk management, litigation and dispute resolution, real estate, commercial transactions, and estate and succession planning. View GCI Leadership
• Limited Liability Companies
  In today’s real estate and land development industries, tax issues and “choice of entity†questions are critically important. We have formed and represent innumerable real estate joint ventures, limited liability companies, holding companies, family limited partnerships, and corporations on small to very large projects. We have been recognized for the formation and representation of commercial, industrial and residential condominiums, and homeowner associations. We currently represent over 40 of these entities.
• Trade Secrets
  Intellectual property protection is not limited to patents, trademarks, and copyrights. "Trade secret" is a viable proprietary information protection alternative. Patent prosecution may take years, patent issuance is not guaranteed, and patent protection lasts for a finite number of years. In contrast, trade secret protection is comparatively inexpensive and may last indefinitely, provided that reasonable safeguards are put in place.
• Intellectual Property
  Whether it’s trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, or intellectual property licensing, we can provide counseling and creative insight on how best to protect your brands, products, innovations, and ideas across a broad range of markets and technologies. We can help you protect your valuable proprietary resources or defend you from an alleged infringement or misappropriation action.
• Unfair Competition
  We will work with you to minimize the potential for inappropriate disclosure of your trade secrets and to maximize their value to you. If your trade secret is misappropriated or disclosed, we will first take the steps necessary to minimize the harm to your company. Next, we will explore every possible avenue available to obtain compensation for the theft including enforcing non-disclosure agreements, filing a claim for unfair competition, and exercising other state and common law remedies. Alternatively, if you find yourself accused of trade secret misappropriation, our attorneys are ready to defend you.
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
  There are, as well, other crucial aspects of employment law litigation that can define a company’s ability to retain and protect its competitive advantages, and its bottom line. Wisler Pearlstine attorneys have substantial experience in these matters. For example...
• Employment Discrimination
• Employment Contract
  Preparing, negotiating, and enforcing employment-related agreements including employment contracts, consulting agreements, severance agreements, confidentiality agreements, and restrictive covenants
• Employment Litigation
  Wisler Pearlstine is regularly engaged by private and public sector employers and employment practices insurance carriers to prevent and, when necessary, defend against the array of employee claims, regulatory matters and employment-related issues that arise under state, local, and federal employment law.
• Non-compete Agreement
• Severance Agreement
• Sexual Harassment
  Other harassment and discrimination claims, and related hostile work environment claims, based on other protected categories, such as age, race, religion and nationality claims

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  On occasion, our zoning and land development attorneys are called upon to protect the legitimate interests and expectations of our developer clients who face strong local and municipal opposition because of a project’s size or perceived unpopularity. Although we work hard to keep our real estate clients out of court through negotiation and on-going communication with opponents, sometimes litigation provides the only means to protect legitimate property rights. When such a course has proven unavoidable, our attorneys have successfully litigated through the municipal approval process and zoning boards to all the courts of this commonwealth and federal court. In fact, because of that real estate litigation experience, our attorneys our frequently called upon to lecture in the area of zoning and land development litigation. Our experienced litigators have also handled most other issues which can result from land disputes, such as breached sales agreements, commission disputes, partition actions, constructive trusts, and boundary disputes.
• Premises Liability
• Construction Litigation
  Our practice includes experience in all aspects of construction litigation, from pre-claim resolution to litigation, arbitration, trial, and settlement.
• Real Estate Transactions
  An Assessment/Solutions Review is project-based. We analyze an assigned area of concern (for instance, a merger, an employment issue, a real estate transaction, a breach of contract, etc.) and we provide a recommended course of action, coupled with a cost estimate, to facilitate strategic, informed business planning. Learn More
• Land Use and Zoning
  We represent and advise owners of closely-held family businesses requiring the integration of personal and financial goals with business succession planning and counseling. Additionally, we are able to draw on the broad range of services within our firm to provide our entrepreneurial clients with a variety of business services in such areas of law as: corporate, financing, employment, employee benefits, real estate and land use planning.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  These matters include, for example, claims arising from breach of contract, fraud, wrongful interference with contractual relations, misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair competition, professional malpractice, business ownership disputes, other business torts, commercial landlord-tenant claims, and complex statutory claims.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  We are proud to say that numerous clients have come to us after their prior counsel could not “get the job done†and we successfully completed their representation. You will not find us on the back of a phone book. We are selective and straight with prospective personal injury clients. We don’t tell people what they want to hear. Rather, we share with them and put to work for them the knowledge that we have developed from decades of experience in this field. We work hard to obtain the best possible results.
• Medical Malpractice

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  We pride ourselves in maintaining many long-standing client relationships by treating each client’s situation with the importance and sensitivity it deserves and by offering customized, state-of-the-art estate planning and tax related services tailored to each client’s unique family situation and financial status.
• Trusts
  We routinely counsel fiduciaries in estate and trust administrations. Our estate administration services include probate assistance, asset collection, debt management, income and estate or inheritance tax return preparation, account preparation, beneficiary distribution, and estate settlement, either informally upon release agreement or formally upon court audit. We offer litigation support should matters require formal resolution before the Orphans’ Court. We are also regularly consulted by the trustees of a variety of charitable and non-charitable trusts as well as directors of non-profit corporations to assist with the proper administration of such entities.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Tax Law
  Our professional services, which assist our clients in all phases of life, encompass estate planning document preparation, trust and estate administration, tax planning, post-mortem planning, and diverse Orphans’ Court matters.
• Debt Collection
  Providing guidance on federal laws and regulations impacting common interest ownership communities, including the Fair Housing Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, FCC Satellite Dish regulations, HUD and Fannie Mae financing approval, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and related matters