Family Law

• Adoption
  Devoted to her community, LaDawn’s has served on several non-profit boards including Empowering Women as Leaders and Hope International, an international adoption agency that assisted with the adoption of her daughter from overseas.
• Guardianship

Criminal Law

• Fraud

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice includes all aspects of buy-side and sell-side deals, from due diligence to tax structuring, financing, and closing. Each transaction is a team effort, as the firm’s lawyers bring a wide range of complementary skills to add value to each transaction. The firm’s experience encompasses cross-border transactions, leveraged and management buyouts, as well as corporate governance issues. Entrepreneurs, investment bankers and investment funds routinely turn to our attorneys for the technical knowledge and bench strength to get deals done.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  The attorneys at Scheef & Stone, LLP help our clients in navigating the increasingly complex landscape of corporate and partnership taxation. Our attorneys provide significant experience regarding these issues, and offer practical structures and solutions to help minimize the tax impact of business operations and transactions. Corporate mergers and acquisitions, S-corporations, partnership debt allocations, profits interests and corporate stock awards, each present unique considerations which must be addressed when moving forward with any business venture. Our attorneys actively seek out creative solutions and structures to help our clients maximize their business objectives while minimizing their tax burden.
• Business Formation
• Business Disputes
  Founded in 1992, Scheef & Stone, LLP maintains a laser-sharp focus on resolving the specific needs of our clients through more than a dozen practice areas. From real estate to business law, from litigation to banking, we offer extensive experience across multiple industries and practice areas. We deliver high-quality results using a strategic, business-minded approach to understand and address your objectives.
• Trade Secrets
  “Our direct sales, multi-level and affiliate marketing clients across the U.S. face a variety of complex business issues in a fast-paced niche industry,” Brent said. “Our team is dedicated to providing strategic advice on rapidly evolving regulatory issues, distributor policies, compensation structures, independent contractor classification, enforcement of non-solicitation restrictions, trade secret protection, risk management, and more. We’re delighted to see this commitment to client service recognized on such a prestigious list.”
• Intellectual Property
  Enjoy arguing, but it was a light-bulb moment for me.  I began looking into law schools the next day. I quickly found that Intellectual Property law, and specifically patent law, was a natural fit for my engineering background. In my patent practice, I get the opportunity to learn about new technologies, utilize my engineering knowledge, and continually explore my love of science, all without having to wear a hard hat or steel toe boots.

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  Our lawyers advise our clients in all areas of trade secret protection, and in all aspects of employment agreements. We also assist companies with the design and administration of their employee benefit plans; advise and assist regarding regulatory compliance with the IRS, Department of Labor and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code; and advise plan fiduciaries on their duties under ERISA.
• Employment Litigation
  We routinely counsel large and small employers and key executives on instituting and maintaining executive compensation programs. We also help reduce employment litigation for our clients through management education on current legal developments and trends, as well as statutory and regulatory compliance.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  As a complement to his successes in business and IP litigation, Anthony also previously served as general counsel for a burgeoning multi-office family dental practice. In this role, in addition to advising on strategic growth, he managed all legal matters that arose in daily practice operations, including those involving contracts, labor and employment, and real estate law.
• Construction Litigation
  Thanks to more than 50 years of combined experience in the industry, Scheef & Stone, LLP’s attorneys know how to successfully navigate the intricacies of construction law and procedure. We have extensive experience in commercial and public projects, ensuring contract compliance through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation. This is complemented by in-house practices and extensive experience in labor and employment, bankruptcy, and financial restructuring.
• Real Estate Transactions
  A partner in the Frisco, Texas office, Heather practices on the firm’s Banking, Corporate & Business, Real Estate, and Securities & Finance teams, with a focus on matters involving transactional banking and real estate law. She is experienced in all aspects of lending transactions and real estate transactions, such as documenting and negotiating complex financial transactions, including U.S. Small Business Administration loans, handling debt collection matters on behalf of creditors, and researching regulatory issues. She also has experience with real estate acquisition transactions and leasing transactions.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  We help our clients build a sound contract infrastructure that meets business founders’ tax and business objectives while striking a balance between risk, reward, and control. This encompasses coordinating business, tax and estate planning, entity selection, and structuring alternatives. We regularly handle and will often orchestrate settlement of shareholder disputes, board disputes and deadlock, as well as executive compensation matters – and when needed, we are highly experienced in “corporate divorces” and the related court proceedings.
• Wills
• Trusts
• Power of Attorney
  Scheef & Stone, LLP provides comprehensive solutions that address our clients’ specific goals for their family, their businesses, and the entirety of their wealth – incorporating estate planning, asset protection planning, and business planning to create an overall wealth preservation strategy. Our attorneys provide a complete range of services regarding the formulation, drafting, and execution of both simple and complex estate plans, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and other tools.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  We represent owners, investors, developers, purchasers, sellers, lenders, landlords, and commercial tenants in all types of real property disputes. Our Real Estate Practice team has extensive litigation experience representing clients in matters ranging from contract disputes, boundary issues, and wrongful foreclosures, to title disputes, guaranties, and creditor/debtor disputes.
• Tax Law
  Federal taxation impacts each and every aspect of our clients’ personal and business worlds, and the attorneys at Scheef & Stone, LLP provide comprehensive experience regarding the wide range of the tax issues that confront our clients. Our attorneys help clients to structure their business and personal affairs to minimize the impact of federal income taxes, be it in the industries of service, manufacturing, retail, oil and gas, investment, real estate and other areas.
• Debt Collection
  The firm’s creditors’ rights practice includes attorneys with extensive experience  in both collection law as well as collection defense. With respect to collections, the practice group is comprised of attorneys with decades of experience in assisting creditors seeking to recover claims against business or consumer debtors. This practice includes attorneys with extensive experience  pursuing and defending fraudulent transfer claims. The firm also has significant experience representing creditors/ collection companies in fair debt collection actions.