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Mr. Frazier joined Bangerter Frazier Group (then Bangerter Sheppard) as an associate in 2005. His primary areas of practice are insurance defense, personal injury, professional negligence, and general civil litigation. Additional areas of practice include estate planning, representation of construction trades, and benefits planning for persons with disabilities. Bill became a partner of the firm in December 2012. He was appointed by the Utah Supreme Court as a Judge Pro Tem for the Washington County Justice Court in 2012. Bill is licensed in the states of California, Utah, Nevada, and Washington. He handles litigated matters from inception through trial. He has been counsel of record for a number of recent high dollar, high exposure cases, and has secured excellent results for the firm's clients. Recent Examples of Case Results:. Prior to entering the legal profession, Bill worked in social services, developing and directing vocational programs for persons with disabilities. Bill  is certified by the Social Security Administration, in collaboration with Virginia Commonwealth University, as a benefits planning, assistance, and outreach counselor. Bill also provides estate planning and trust administration assistance for clients in California and Utah. In his spare time, Mr. Frazier enjoys spending time with his wife and three sons, coaching youth sports, and playing music and softball. He can be reached at. Professional Experience. Publications

I have been in private practice for nearly 20 years, with broad experience in drafting commercial contracts and business agreements, including employment-related agreements, commercial real estate leases and purchase agreements, stock and asset purchase and sales agreements and commercial terms and conditions.. I represent companies in a broad spectrum of industries in general business matters, corporate governance and employment issues.. I enjoy international travel, running and spending time with my family.

Personal Interests:. Bicycling with Vero Beach Cycling Club;. Cooking;. Member Rotary Club of Orchid Island;. Member Indian River County Chamber of Commerce;. Member Oceanside Business Organization

Victor A. Mezacapa, III has decades of state and federal trial experience in the areas of business, real property, discrimination, harassment, domestic relations, insurance law, personal injury, medical malpractice, and criminal.. Mr. Mezacapa now focuses his trial practice on business, corporate and fraud matters, with additional efforts directed at advising entrepreneurs with asset protection, business formation, contracts, transactions, real property and employment matters. He also serves as General Counsel to a number of entrepreneurs and their business ventures.. In addition to his trial work, Mr. Mezacapa has served as both chairman and panel member of multiple arbitrations for the Alternative Dispute Resolution Division of the Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas. He has also served in the capacity of mediator for the Lake County Court of Common Pleas.. Mr. Mezacapa is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and The American Association for Justice. He has served as regional director of the Student Mock Trial Competition of the American Association for Justice. He is also a member of the Lake County Bar Association.. Mr. Mezacapa provides volunteer legal service with the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and received the prestigious Trustee Award in 2004 for outstanding volunteer service. He has also created a middle school mock trial program at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in an effort to introduce legal advocacy to young students in Lake County. Mr. Mezacapa sits on the Board of Directors for the Michelle’s Wish Foundation, a local philanthropic non-profit organization whose function is to raise funds to provide terminally ill young children and young adults the opportunity to “make their dreams a reality”. Mr. Mezacapa is very involved in civic and community affairs, as a lifelong resident of Lake County he has coached youth and young adult baseball and basketball. Mr. Mezacapa has been the President of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Athletic Booster Board of Directors, while coaching numerous boys and girls basketball teams.

Paul grew up in South Florida and enjoys helping businesses develop and prosper throughout the South Florida community. Paul has helped businesses and their owners from the beginning of their endeavors and has advised them throughout their business life, including any contracts issues, negotiations, any law suits that might arise, etc.. Paul graduated from Florida State University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science in Business, Risk Management/Insurance and earned his Juris Doctorate from the Shepard Broad College of Law, Nova Southeastern University in 2008. Paul currently lives in Broward County with his wife Rachel and 2 children Emily and Adam. Paul enjoys playing and watching various sports, including basketball, football, golf, soccer and volleyball and has had the pleasure of coaching his daughter’s soccer team for the past 3 years.

Mr. Shapiro has a diverse practice accumulated over 25 years in a variety of practice areas to include commercial transactions, business restructuring, bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, finance and real estate. Clients range from lenders, investors, real estate owners, landlords, private companies engaged in a wide variety of industries, family businesses, investors, entrepreneurs and individuals. He has represented court appointed fiduciaries including receivers in foreclosure proceedings, trustees in bankruptcy proceedings and assignees in assignment for the benefit of creditor’s proceedings.. He has represented companies which have sought protection and successfully emerged from Chapter 11 reorganization cases. He has represented creditors in assisting with the recovery of collateral, maximizing recoveries, and, when parties to litigation, minimized their exposure through development of successful tactical approaches and negotiation often times through mediation.. He has represented clients in contested matters and adversary proceedings, including fraudulent conveyance and preferential payment actions, claims objections, proceedings involving relief from the automatic stay, cash collateral proceedings and debtor in possession financings. He has handled all aspects (negotiations, purchase and sale agreements, bidding procedures, court approval process) for purchasers and sellers in numerous deals involving transactions approved under Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Kory is an attorney licensed to practice in Florida with an impressive background in trademark, business and real estate law. He has extensive intellectual property knowledge filing numerous applications with the United States Trademark and Copyright Offices. Kory has worked for the United States Congress on Capitol Hill where he helped draft a piece of United States legislation.. Kory is well versed in complex business issues having studied and written several papers under nationally recognized professors in Intellectual Property Law. He knows it takes more than knowledge of the law to help businesses and individuals with their legal matters. Kory treats your legal matters, no matter how big or how small, with the utmost importance and care.

John graduated from the University of Akron School of Law in 1987, passed the Ohio bar the same year, and has been practicing law since 1987. He is married (Deborah) with two adult daughters. Both John’s daughters are married and are special education teachers. Clients who have been with John awhile will remember them, as both worked in the office during high school and college.. In 2004 John left the firm where he worked and opened his own office. John’s professional time as a lawyer is divided between services offered to the general public: small business matters, estate planning matters (including asset protection) and probate matters; and services (largely pro bono) offered to ngo/ngo support/non-profit/charitable organizations and causes. John also provides special needs trusts to and provides other services to families with children and adults with disabilities.. Mr. Grundy has spoken at several continuing education seminars for lawyers on topics of estate planning, probate and small business over the years. He has spoken at the national conference of a Protestant denomination on the topic of “business as missions” in 2013. He has traveled extensively nationally, with limited international travel, in support of a few of his clients and the business as missions movement. John is a member and coach of the OPEN Network as of non-profit/charitable organizations.. John is dedicated to seeing his clients flourish and provides legal services to accomplish that purpose. Call today for an appointment to discuss with John how you can flourish in your business or estate planning endeavors.