Practice Areas
How can we help you?
Estate Planning— Estate Taxes, Medicaid & Trusts; Succession Planning for Businesses
LaPorte Law Group explains and provides individual, families and businesses with the best and latest of estate plans tailored for their particular situations and objectives, from simple wills and Durable Powers of Attorney to Estate Tax Plans and the use of appropriate Irrevocable Trusts to protect assets however possible, including as part of Medicaid Planning. We also regularly represent and design succession plans for small to medium-size businesses as well, including Employee Stock Option Plans to Operating Agreements and Bylaws to Buy-out Solutions.
Business Formation & Corporate Matters
Our business clients value the creative solutions and practical counsel we bring to their most complex issues. LaPorte Law Group and its team has over 28 years’ experience advising individuals, corporations, LLCs, and partnerships from start-ups to established businesses. We represent design-professionals such as architects, protecting their intellectual property, homeowners in construction disputes and contractors and subcontractors, including protecting their mechanics lien rights for work and improvements they have performed.
Probate Administration, Guardianships and Conservatorships
LaPorte Law Group and its team regularly open Probate administrations for deceased persons’ estates, with or with out wills, handle disputes about estates and trusts, as well as provide experienced representation obtaining guardianships and conservatorships for incapacitated, and often elderly persons, where necessary, as well as assisting with the filing of annually required Guardians’ reports and/or Conservators’ accountings with the Probate Courts.
Corporate & Personal Litigation
Most of our clients are long-term or “repeat” clients or become so. We gain our clients’ trust by listening and learning everything we need to know to represent our clients in the most effective way. We lay out the options and advantages and potential disadvantages. Above all, we respect our clients and their situations and provide objective and professional advice based on our experience. If litigation is required, we provide the highest quality advocacy as efficiently as possible. We are experienced and have been very successful in all of the jurisdictions we practice in, at the State court levels, in mediation and arbitrations, as well as in Federal Courts, including Bankruptcy Court and the Federal Court of Appeals.
Employment and Wage Law
LaPorte Law Group is a member of the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Employment Lawyers’ Associations, the California Bar Labor Section and represents individuals who have claims based on illegal discrimination, based on disability, gender and race or other protected categories. LaPorte Law Group also represents employees who have not been properly and/or timely paid for their wages, Vacation time or Paid Time Off (“PTO”), including recently having represented an individual through the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts where we established a landmark win in Wage Act law. Companies retain us to defend them as well as to advise them on how to comply with the various laws governing owning and managing a business with employees, including advising Human Resource departments or Ownership and their Office Managers to prevent problems, and/or to properly handle them if they arise. We are experienced in preparing appropriate and legally compliant written policies as well as employee handbooks.
Construction
We represent design-professionals such as architects, protecting their intellectual property, homeowners in construction disputes and contractors and subcontractors, including protecting their mechanics lien rights for work and improvements they have performed.