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For more than 25 years, we have relied on the Gilchrist & Rutter lawyers to represent us on numerous complex real estate and business matters. They work tirelessly to help us achieve our goals and make deals happen."
- James A. Thomas, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Properties Group, Inc.
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- Real Estate: The firm handles all aspects of commercial, retail and industrial transactions, including development, financing, leasing, purchases, sales, exchanges, environmental, sustainability, property management, manufactured housing estate conversions and related issues.
- Corporate: The firm handles most business matters, including formation of appropriate business entities, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, annual corporate maintenance, employee issues, business licenses and other operational issues.
- Employment Law: The firm handles all aspects of employment law matters, including wrongful termination, sexual harassment, racial, age, and gender discrimination and other employment claims.
- Environmental: The firm handles the environmental aspects of business and real property transactions and development, provides regulatory compliance counseling, and handles environmental claims and enforcement matters.
- Litigation: The firm handles all types of civil litigation matters, including disputes related to real estate, title insurance, life insurance (including structured settlement annuities), employment, construction defects, trade dress and intellectual property, and other general business matters.
- Maufactured Housing: Our exprtise includes extensive experience counseling clients with respect to the conversion/subdivision of mobile home communities from rental to condominium resident ownership, to realize property value. We also represent clients in non-conversion MHP matters, including acquisitions, closure, rent control litigation, HCD oversight and regulation, resident lawsuits, financing, sales, tax-deferred sales and failure to maintain litigation. We have been instrumental in State and local lobbying on behalf of park owners at both legislative and administrative agencies.
- Sustainability: The firm merges years of expertise in construction, development, leasing, environmental law, land use and asset management to help its clients navigate and comply with applicable local, state and federal laws dealing with minimizing a project's resource footprint while maximizing the benefits of investments in "green" improvements.
- Trusts and Estates: The firm handles all aspects of matters involving estate planning, trusts and probate administration.
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