Personal Injury—Our negotiation abilities and litigation experience provide the ideal background to represent your personal injury matters.  Whether you’ve been injured in an auto accident, a slip and fall, a design defect in a product, or due to the actions of a doctor, hospital, nursing home, or other health care facility, our experience allows us to put forth the effort you deserve to receive compensation for your injuries. 

Estate Planning—We handle a variety of estate planning matters, including planning for the distribution of an individual’s property at his or her death.  We understand how to utilize existing accounts, insurance, and property in order to create wills, living wills, and trusts so as to gain the maximum benefit of all laws, while, at the same time, carrying out our client’s wishes.  We also work with our clients to protect the personal and financial well-being of loved ones.

Successions—Our firm represents clients through successions when a loved one has passed away, providing a helping hand in distributing the remaining assets and paying lingering debts.  We work with our clients in intestate successions, testate successions, simple successions, and administrative successions. 

Real Estate Transactions—Our firm performs real estate transactional work for commercial and residential property, including complex transactions and timber contracts.  We assist with the purchase and sale of real estate, including negotiating and drafting purchase agreements and other documents, ensuring good title, and closings.  Our experienced attorneys also assist our clients with the legal aspects of financing, re-financing, and foreclosures. 

Real Estate Litigation—Our firm litigates all types of legal disputes arising from the purchase and sale of real estate.  We represent the interests of both buyers and sellers, as well as construction builders, should a dispute arise.  We zealously advocate our clients’ interests to ensure their expectations of both the real estate deal and our representation are met.  Unlike many real estate firms, we can and will meet both your transactional and litigation needs. 

Insurance and Tort Litigation—Our highly skilled trial attorneys have extensive trial experience in insurance and tort matters throughout Louisiana.  We aggressively litigate all types of insurance matters, including motor vehicle accidents, property and casualty matters, general commercial disputes, premises liability, product liability, professional liability and most other insurance and tort matters.  Our experience with the insurance industry allows our attorneys the insight to appreciate the legal aspects of the case and to apply practical resolutions to the dispute.  Our exceptional representation in insurance and tort matters has gained us a reputation for excelling in difficult, complex cases. 

Family Law—Our attorneys are prepared to represent you and your family in all your family law issues.  We have a wealth of experience handling divorces, custody and child support issues, property divisions, visitation rights, adoptions, and other issues.  We understand that your family is important to you, and we make every effort to handle your claim with as little personal difficulty as possible. 

Business and Commercial Law—Our attorneys represent large and small business in North Louisiana in a variety of commercial matters.  We are available to oversee commercial transactions to ensure they are completed smoothly, advise and counsel our business clients on issues that may arise, litigate any issue to enforce or defend their legal rights, and provide excellent collection services to force delinquent accounts to come current.  Among the many areas we cover are choice of entity and business formation, mergers and acquisitions, employment disputes, contract negotiation and preparation, sexual harassment, and collections.

Alternative Dispute Resolution—Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is the process of resolving legal conflicts without going to trial.  Our firm is in the forefront of this area, advising clients on arbitration, alternate dispute resolution, mediation, mini-trials, and private judging.  Our attorneys are knowledgeable about and experienced in ADR.  We counsel our clients about the availability of ADR procedures to enable our clients to make informed choices concerning dispute resolution.  Graydon Kitchens, Jr., a retired judge and current partner of the firm, is a member of Mediation and Arbitration Professional Systems, Inc., (MAPS), where he draws appointments to mediate or arbitrate a variety of legal issues.  Mr. Kitchens also serves by appointment as the Chairman of medical review panels in which he presides over peer review in the medical malpractice context. 

Bankruptcy—Our firm represents individuals in bankruptcy proceedings initiated under Chapter 7 to enable the debtor to discharge any further obligations to pay outstanding debts.  We also have experience representing creditors in both Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 collection cases.

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