Family Law

• Divorce
• Child Support
• Child Custody and Visitation

Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death
• Internet Crimes

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Ms. Abel's business planning practice involves advising clients on the formation and operation of corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and other business organizations. She prepares organizational documents, shareholder agreements, leases, non-competition agreements, employment agreements, asset-purchase and stock-purchase agreements, loan and security agreements, and office-sharing agreements.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Lanier Ford serves as counsel in numerous mergers and acquisitions for both public and private companies. In representing sellers, bidders, target companies, dealer managers, and financial advisors, our attorneys emphasize creative solutions to resolve business problems while taking advantage of business opportunities. Representation includes all phases of mergers and acquisitions, including—
• Business Disputes
• Business Transactions
  Essential to almost any business, contracts and agreements affect almost all commercial transactions—sometimes even when the parties don’t know they exist. Lanier Ford’s attorneys are experienced at drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts for a variety of parties in a variety of business pursuits, including contracts involving the following...
• Limited Liability Companies
  Mr. Baggette advises clients about the formation, acquisition, and sale of businesses and regularly assists clients in the creation of corporations and limited liability companies. He also represents banks and real estate developers in the financing, acquisition, and sale of commercial properties and condominium developments. Mr. Baggette also has experience in state and local tax abatements and incentives for industrial projects.
• Construction Contracts
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
• Unfair Competition
  Antitrust laws protect businesses and consumers from restraint of trade, monopolies, price fixing, and price discrimination. Unfair competition laws protect businesses and consumers from deceptive trade practices, including the following...
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
  Attorneys practicing in this area assist client employers in complying with the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act by explaining the various statutory and regulatory requirements that employers must follow, including calculation of medical and vocational-rehabilitation benefits. Our attorneys also assist employers in determining the applicability of the Workers’ Compensation Act, which can be affected by such factors as—
• Wrongful Termination
  Mr. Brooks has represented a variety of public- and private-sector employers in Title VII, ADA, ADEA, and wrongful termination claims. He has also represented several corporate clients in complex commercial litigation involving, for example, contract disputes over computers and computer components, misappropriation of trade secrets and proprietary information, and violation of noncompetition agreements.
• Employment Discrimination
  Our healthcare attorneys defend healthcare providers about issues that arise from the day-to-day operations of their facilities: defense of premises liability, employment law (including wage and hour issues and employment discrimination), workers’ compensation, taxes, licensing, staff credentials and privileging, peer review matters, physician disciplinary actions, and Medicare and Medicaid sanctions.
• Employment Contract
  In addition, attorneys who practice in this area have experience handling litigation arising out of breach-of-contract claims, negligent or tortious interference with employment contracts or employee relations, breach of covenants not to compete, breach of confidentiality agreements, and other state and federal claims that may arise out of the employment relationship.
• Employment Litigation
  The firm’s corporate and employment attorneys give cutting-edge, innovative advice to assist clients looking to in setting up their businesses, protecting their intellectual property, avoiding employment disputes, establishing comprehensive employee benefit plans, and financing their startups or expansions.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Our attorneys represent clients before various administrative and governmental agencies and boards and before municipal, state, and federal courts in matters such as boundary disputes, breach-of-contract actions, evictions, ownership disputes, quieting title, and related matters. Real estate litigation may also arise as a result of trespass, nuisance, zoning, subdivision, and disagreement among co-owners about property ownership.
• Premises Liability
  Mr. Beasley focuses on the defense of business entities, health-care providers, major corporations, and insurance carriers, primarily in injury-related lawsuits. The Florida Bar, Board of Civil Trial Advocacy, the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization, and the National Board of Trial Advocacy have recognized him as a board-certified specialist in civil trial law. He has tried numerous lawsuits in state and federal courts and has actively represented clients in matters involving wrongful death, products liability, civil rights, medical malpractice, premises liability, and class actions.
• Construction Litigation
  Lanier Ford’s litigation attorneys also represent clients in litigation of non-contractual claims often closely associated with the breach of contract...
• Real Estate Transactions
  In handling real estate transactions, Lanier Ford assists clients, particularly lending institutions, in complying with the following federal laws...
• Eminent Domain
  Among many other matters, our firm has defended and advised local governmental entities in cases involving workers’ compensation, employment law, zoning, eminent domain, building codes, police misconduct, flooding and drainage, injuries in parks and other facilities, contracts, taxation, wrongful death, civil rights, gas explosions, vehicle accidents, competitive bidding, and the Open Meetings Law.
• Land Use and Zoning

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  The focus of Mr. Arnston’s practice is the defense of long-term care and assisted-living facilities, hospitals, physicians, and nurses in professional liability cases. He also defends product manufacturers and trucking companies in personal injury actions, as well as various corporations in general litigation matters.
• Medical Malpractice
  The Best Lawyers in America since 2007. For its 2019 and 2021 editions, Best Lawyers named him as Huntsville Lawyer of the Year in the area of medical malpractice defense.
• Auto Accidents

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Consider preparing or changing your will and other estate-planning documents when you encoutner a major life event: birth, death, marriage, divorce, moving to a new home or state, etc.
• Wills
• Trusts
  Ms. Abel advises and assists clients in organizing charitable trusts, endowments and non-profit corporations, and obtaining tax-exempt status for those organizations.
• Power of Attorney
  Ms. Abel frequently lectures on estate planning issues, including the effect of estate and gift taxes on an estate plan and the uses of wills, powers of attorney, advance directives for health care, and living and testamentary trusts to achieve estate-planning goals.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  Lanier Ford represents creditors in bankruptcy proceedings, including businesses, lenders, financial institutions, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors’ committees, and crisis managers in bankruptcy proceedings, state receiverships, non-judicial workouts, foreclosures, and repossession of personal property.
• Tax Law