Who We Are

 

Alex K. Mayfield

William J. Broderick

David Seidman

 

 

 

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Practice Areas

Planet

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

info@SustainableLegal.com