Family Law

• Divorce

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  The firm can assist in the preparation of articles of incorporation or organization, shareholder agreements, operating agreements, by-laws, and resolutions. The firm can also assist with the preparation of employment agreements, including non-competition and confidentiality provisions. Given the firm’s extensive experience in litigating issues arising out such agreements, the firm is in a unique position to draft the agreements from a “litigator’s perspective†and provide the client with the maximum protection. If the time should come when a client needs to sell or acquire a business, the firm can assist in the negotiation and documentation of the necessary agreement to consummate the transaction.
• Business Disputes
  Stack Fernandez & Harris, P.A. is a boutique law firm with big firm capabilities. It maintains a diverse legal practice with an emphasis in business law, complex commercial and civil litigation, and domestic and international arbitrations. Based in South Florida, we represent a multinational clientele in complex business transactions, in state and federal court litigation throughout Florida and the Southeast, before the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), and other alternative dispute resolution bodies. Our legal services rival those of legacy firms at a fraction of their fees. We are geared to provide immediate and effective responses to the client's legal problems for a highly competitive fee. We emphasize a one-to-one relationship between our lawyers and client representatives. We emphasize effective communication, attention to detail, and superior results.
• Business Transactions
• Limited Liability Companies
  Stack Fernandez & Harris, P.A. offers a range of corporate and transactional legal services, including the formation of Florida corporations, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, and limited partnerships, the negotiation and documentation of purchase and sale agreements, asset sales, stock purchase agreements, the preparation of customary corporate documents (including shareholder, employment, non-competition, and confidentiality agreements), and the resolution of disputes among shareholders and members or between corporations and third parties. The firm also negotiates contracts for our clients involved in the entertainment and related industries.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  At times, disputes might arise between the corporation and third parties. As commercial litigators, the firm has significant experience in litigating contractual disputes, intellectual property disputes, and business torts, such as tortious interference, unfair and deceptive trade practices, unfair competition, and trade name infringement.
• Unfair Competition

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  The firm has substantial experience in the prosecution, defense and resolution of claims concerning the violation of employment agreements, non-competition agreements, confidentiality agreements, and trade secret disputes. If litigation is warranted, the firm will quickly move to preserve and protect a client’s rights and assets, including the prosecution of claims to obtain injunctive relief from the courts. The firm routinely represents corporations and employees as plaintiffs and defendants.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Robert Harris is a commercial litigator and corporate attorney. Bob’s commercial litigation practice is diverse, encompassing a wide array of complex areas such as employment law, corporate disputes, contract and tort litigation, defamation, products liability, real estate litigation, intellectual property matters, administrative law, probate and appellate practice. Through the course of his practice, Bob has gained extensive experience in a variety of legal specialties such as, for example, employment law and corporate shareholder disputes. As to employment law, in addition to litigating discrimination claims, Bob has extensive experience litigating issues concerning non-competition agreements, confidentiality agreements, and trade secrets, as well as drafting non-competition and confidentiality agreements and advising corporations as to the effect of such agreements. As to corporate shareholder disputes, Bob has litigated disputes between shareholders in closed corporations regarding interpretations of shareholders agreements, breach of fiduciary duty and corporate waste of assets.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  The firm’s business law and civil litigation practice includes corporate and business transactions, civil and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on complex business litigation, contract disputes, Uniform Commercial Code matters, creditors’ rights, banking litigation, commercial landlord-tenant disputes, products liability, employment law, covenants not-to-compete, construction and mechanic lien disputes, health care litigation, intellectual property litigation, and insurance litigation. The firm’s practice includes appellate matters, bankruptcy adversary proceedings, and arbitration, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution, including AAA, ICC, and AHLA arbitrations.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Lazaro Fernandez, Jr. specializes in complex commercial litigation, both at the appellate and trial court levels in the federal and state courts representing clients in a broad range of domestic and international commercial disputes. Mr. Fernandez is an “AV” rated lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell. His practice includes all aspects of business litigation, including contract law, Uniform Commercial Code, commercial landlord-tenant disputes, products liability, business torts, banking, fraud, officer and director liability, personal injury, and shareholder disputes. In addition to practicing before the trial and appellate state and federal courts, Mr. Fernandez maintains a practice before the American Arbitration Association and other alternative dispute resolution forums. Mr. Fernandez’s representative clients include Fortune 500 multinational companies as well as high net worth individuals.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy