Family Law

• Premarital Agreement
• Guardianship
  Ed's practice emphasizes sophisticated estate planning relating to trusts, estates, conservatorships, guardianships, non-profit tax-exempt organizations and estate and gift taxation. Ed is experienced in creating and implementing a wide variety of estate planning structures, including: generation-skipping transfer trusts; grantor retained annuity trusts; qualified personal residence trusts; family limited partnerships; life insurance trusts; private foundations; charitable lead trusts; charitable remainder trusts; qualified domestic trusts for non-citizen spouses; and special needs trusts.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Mr. Chodorow advises business clients regarding the purchase and sale of businesses or interests therein, and problems involving partnership and corporate law relating to management, employees, directors, and owners.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Our lawyers assist clients with strategic planning, documentation and advice concerning mergers and acquisitions, business formations, reorganizations, finance and restructuring.
• Business Formation
  We are a full-service law firm. That means we handle almost every type of legal matter for nearly every kind of enterprise. Our clients rely on us to help in business formation through start-up or merger, to manage their growth through real estate acquisition and disposition, leasing, tax planning and litigation challenges, and to provide for their future through wealth preservation and sophisticated estate plans.
• Business Disputes
  For example, the Firm represents clients in all types of commercial litigation, including contract disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, entertainment, intellectual property, real property, creditor's rights, and probate and trust controversies. The Firm works with clients to seek aggressive, creative and effective strategies.
• Business Transactions
  ABOUT THE FIRM At De Castro, West, Chodorow, Mendler, & Glickfeld, Inc., we provide planning and advocacy to our clients in complex business transactions and litigation. We help individuals, private entities and public corporations navigate the legal intricacies of both the boardroom and the courtroom through strategic counseling, innovative planning and aggressive representation.
• Construction Contracts
• Intellectual Property

Employment Law

• Employment Contract

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
• Construction Litigation
• Real Estate Transactions
• Easement
• Land Use and Zoning
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Practice emphasis Edward Levine is Of Counsel to the firm, and has been helping clients achieve their estate planning and wealth transfer objectives for over 40 years.
• Wills
• Trusts
  In addition to traditional planning in wills and living trusts, the Firm has been at the cutting edge in using more sophisticated techniques involving trusts, partnerships, annuities and insurance to preserve family wealth and minimize taxes.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  We advise our clients in connection with acquisitions and sales, tax-free exchanges, entitlements, construction, leasing (both landlords and tenants), financing (including securitized loan transactions), foreclosure, ownership structuring and easements.
• Tax Law
  De Castro West was established in 1971 when, after practicing tax law together for nearly ten years, Hugo De Castro, Robert West and Hilton Chodorow founded this Firm based on excellent work product and service to clients. Bruce S. Glickfeld joined the Firm in 1972 and became a named partner in 1999.