Personal Legal Matters

Mayfield | Broderick provides our clients counsel for traditional legal problems, and for everyday events such as:

 

  • buying a house or a car
  • creating a will
  • handling a problem with an insurance company
  • dealing with identity theft
  • paying taxes
  • dealing with landlords or tenants
  • getting or losing a job

 

These events can be among the most important events in a person's life, yet there is a tendency for them to take place without proper legal review. For our clients, access to legal counsel is only a phone call away.

 

Real Estate             We provide full service to real estate buyers and sellers for residential real property closings.  Among those services are contract review (pre or post contract execution); the negotiation of inspection contingency issues; the negotiation of attorney modification issues; the tracking of any contingencies (appraisal, mortgage, home sale), if any; ordering title, clearing title, obtaining payoffs, ordering zoning and water certifications, municipal stamp issues, for Sellers; attendance at the closing to review the Seller's closing documents and explain the voluminous mortgage and seller documents in clear, easy to understand terms, and ensure that the deed is proper and the title is issued, for Buyers.

 

Estate Planning       We offer a variety of services for people who wish to plan in advance for the distribution of property upon their death, including wills and revocable and irrevocable trusts, so that their property goes to the persons or charities they wish, and their heirs pay the minimum possible tax.

 

Our office is dedicated in making sure that your case is taken care of in a timely and beneficial manner. We offer free consultations and payment plans are available.  Don’t try to go through this alone. Have the experts at the law office of Mayfield | Broderick work for you!

 

FEES

 

Mayfield | Broderick understands that clients want a firm quoted fee and budget for their case.  What sets us apart from almost all the other law firms is the option for flat fee billing for legal services.  With Mayfield | Broderick you can pay a flat fee for your case as an alternative to the high hourly rates you may be charged elsewhere.  With a flat fee, you pay for the task and not for the time.  Traditionally, the legal industry has billed for its work on an hourly basis.  The problem is that hourly billing can cause unnecessary conflicts between clients and their lawyers.  Under hourly billing, clients never know what to expect in their legal bill which can lead to unpleasant surprises.

 

The solution is flat fee billing where you are in control of the budget for your case.  Gone are the days where you must pay a high hourly rate for legal services and pay for every single telephone call, fax or letter.  Rather, from the start of your case, we will sit down with you and break your case down into manageable parts.  With each part of your case, we will discuss your options and then create a budget for you.  You now control the billing for your case as you will know from the outset of each task what the legal fee will be.  No surprises, no fears and no worries about time. 

 

Our no-nonsense billing also means that unlike other law firms, we will not bill you separately for copies, postage, or sending faxes.  Mayfield | Broderick focuses on supplying you with value and service.  We hope you appreciate our fresh take on billing for legal services.  Compare our law firm with the others and we are confident you will see the difference.


Contact MAYFIELD | BRODERICK today - Contact Us or call us at (312) 878-7858 to schedule a free initial consultation.

Practice Areas

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Planet

Construction, Brownfields

Sustainable Development

 

Profit

Outsourced General Counsel

Contracts, Corporate, Disputes

 

People

Real Estate, Estate Planning

Taxes, Employment, Probate

 

The Construction Contract Review

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Our Work

* an irrigation company is now an EPA WaterSense contractor and expanding its workforce to handle sustainability demand

* a green company received trademark protection

* flat-rate startup consultation and entity formation for non-profit company organizing eco-tours

* an off-road equipment owner developed, defined, and marketed a carbon credit based on switching diesel fuel to ULSD or biodiesel

* successfully defended a minister against an IRS attack on his tax exempt status, allowing him to continue his charitable and religious work on his humble but, now permanently, tax exempt salary

* a home buyer conducted an inspection and the seller paid for an energy efficiency audit which identified hundreds of dollars of annual savings for our client's new green dream home

* helped employers defend wrongful termination suits, wage and hour investigations and navigate e-verify

* negotiated employment contracts and other job protections for employees

* filed mechanics liens and got a concrete company paid after it poured turbine foundations on over 30 different parcels for a wind farm developer

* when a demolition contractor discovered an unexpected underground condition at a naval facility it expected an $800,000 loss; instead it was able to successfully void the contract and avoid the loss

* counseling on various corporate transaction ranging from asset sales, stock sales, corporate financings, shareholder/Board of Director relations; values ranging from a few thousand to over $100 million

* small claims collection matter handled on a contingency basis for a small internet developer and graphic design studio; it may have been the small claim court's jurisdiction but the amount was of no small concern to our client and received big claim attention

* helped company define for the USEPA how its innovative RCRA remedy results in 28% less carbon emissions

* successfully argued before the Illinois Appellate Court on behalf of a company doing federally funded cleanups after Hurricane Katrina

* negotiated a lease for a 35 person office working to improve the environment. Firm's carbon footprint reduced 22%...all paid for by the landlord

* process corporate compliance "paperwork" on behalf of corporations nationwide....the paperwork is paperless

* drafted planning documents at a flat rate for a young family that provided care and protection for dependents and substantial funding for a local watershed group

* Bid protest for a state highway contract settled amicably after forceful discovery process; achieved all client's goals without costly and lengthy hearing

Contact Us

312.878.7858

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