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Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Peter is a member of RWO’s business law practice group and is active in many community activities, including, board member and legal counsel for Geneva Glen Camp, pro bono counsel for the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Colorado, a member of the Admissions Committee of the University Club of Denver, former board member (2009 – 2014) of the South Metro Denver Chamber, and former board member of the Swallow Hill Music Association. Mr. Moore is included in the 2016 edition of Best Lawyers in America® for Corporate Law (listed since 2013) and is rated AV-Preeminent (the highest rating) by Martindale-Hubbell. He received the South Metro Denver’s Leadership in Motion Award in 2013, and in 2014, he received the South Metro Denver’s Brian Vogt Community Leader of the Year award.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Theodore Goldstock is a business and litigation attorney at Lerch, Early & Brewer in Bethesda, Maryland. He counsels businesses on a broad range of corporate and commercial law matters and represents clients in business-related disputes and commercial litigation. He also advises family-owned businesses on succession planning, governance and other issues.. Understanding of Business Issues Based on Experience Running a Company. As a business attorney, Ted draws on his experience as the former COO and general counsel for his own mid-sized family business. His understanding of today’s business issues and his sensible approach to solving problems is appreciated by clients, including companies that rely on him for general counsel services, commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, business formation, succession planning, operating agreements, shareholder agreements, leasing, intellectual property licensing, and general corporate law. Practical and determined, Ted has a deep understanding of the issues facing families in business together, and an ability to customize solutions based on circumstances unique to each family and company.. Resolving Business Disputes. In the area of commercial litigation, Ted handles business disputes, including conflicts among shareholders and limited liability company members. He litigates for his clients in the courts and in administrative proceedings and appeals. In addition, he has substantial experience representing business clients in arbitration proceedings and related litigation regarding the use of arbitration to resolve disputes.. Health Care Providers. Ted often combines his business acumen and litigation experience serving health care providers such as physicians groups, hospitals, surgery centers, and continuing care communities. Ted has handled mergers between physician groups, and transactions involving the consolidation of individual practices into mega groups. He helps individual physicians in their negotiations with hospitals and physician groups, individual hospitals in business transactions, and joint ventures among groups of hospitals. Ted has represented both surgery centers and specialty groups in their dealings with surgery centers. He also has handled transactions with Accountable Care Organizations.. Nonprofit Governance. Ted also represents many nonprofit organizations in all aspects of business transactions, including mergers between nonprofits, joint ventures and corporate governance, as well as obtaining exemptions from income taxes and other state and local taxes.. Ted received his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He also attended the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Ted received his Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland School of Law. He is admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia.. Active in Montgomery County civic affairs, Ted serves as general counsel to the Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce and as general counsel to the board of Bethesda Arts and Entertainment District, Inc. and to Temple Shalom in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He also serves as pro bono business counsel to Imagination Stage, where he regularly negotiates agreements with artists and their agents. At Lerch Early, Ted serves on the firm's management committee and board of directors.. Ted is an avid collector of antiques and decorative art, and holds a certificate in Antique and Decorative Art Connoisseurship from The George Washington University. In addition, he is an épée fencer and an avid trap, skeet and sporting clays competitor.

Douglas R. Ferguson received two B.S. majors in Business Finance and Business Marketing from the University of Utah in 1975. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Denver College of Law in 1981, where he was the recipient of the University of Denver’s Award of Excellence in Securities Regulations. Doug’s practice emphasizes franchising; real estate and lending; securities; corporate, partnership, and limited liability company entities; and commercial and business law. He is the firm’s most experienced attorney in franchising law and provides counsel to several franchisors in both U.S. and international franchising matters. Doug is a member of the American Bar Association’s Forum Committee on Franchising and the Denver and Colorado Bar Associations, where he is a member of the Real Estate Law and Business Law Sections.  He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America® for franchise law every year since 2011, Colorado Super Lawyers every year since 2011 and Top Lawyers of Colorado every year it has been awarded.  He is a presenter at the National Franchise Institute's Growth Strategies program discussions the pros and cons of operating as an independent buisness versus in a franchise system. Doug's clients are locate througout the United States.  He is one of the most experienced attorneys in International franchising in the United States, having assisted clients with franchise issues in over 125 countries.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Neil S. Hyman is the founding Member of The Law Office of Neil S. Hyman, LLC, where he focuses his practice on employment-related litigation and regulatory matters. Neil regularly represents clients in federal and state trial and appellate courts and before the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and state and local agencies including the Maryland Commission on Human Rights and the Montgomery County Office of Human Relations.. Neil maintains an active counseling practice as well, working closely with clients to proactively avoid lawsuits by counseling and advising employers on their obligations under the various employment laws, drafting employee handbooks, executive contracts and non-competition agreements and conducting internal employment practices audits and investigations of alleged discrimination and other wrongdoing.  Neil also assists clients with I-9 compliance and audits.. Prior to founding the firm, Neil worked for several Montgomery County firms where he honed his litigation and employment law knowledge and practice.  That experience included assisting numerous employers in resolving FLSA and wage and hour disputes as well as obtaining significant settlement or awards on behalf of individuals for sexual harassment, ADA and wage and hour claims.  During that time, Neil also gained significant experience in general commercial litigation including representing homeowners in HOA disputes, shareholder disputes, business dissolution and real estate related matters.. Although he was born and raised in Greensboro, NC, Neil has long time ties to the Washington, DC metro area, having received his undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland.  Neil obtained his law degree from University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law.  Neil lives in Silver Spring with his wife, three children and dog.  His passions include soccer, basketball and spending time with his family at the beach.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Richard specializes in land-use, zoning, real estate, commercial, environmental, and appellate law, including complex business litigation and class actions. He represents property owners, developers, neighborhood associations, midsize and large U.S. companies throughout Southern California on numerous hotel, medical office, and multi-family residential projects. He serves as lead trial and appellate counsel in traditional/administrative writ of mandamus proceedings, arbitrations, and private attorney general actions. As part of his land use practice, Richard manages all of the CEQA, planning, zoning, and other entitlements required by state, county, and city governments. In Pasadena, Richard’s projects include the restoration of the Constance Hotel and the YWCA Julia Morgan Building, the Colorado at Hill Hotel, the Marriott Residence Inn, the Paseo Colorado, the Crown City Medical Building, and the former Pasadena Athletic Club site.. As an experienced trial attorney, Richard successfully prosecuted a CEQA and land use trial against the City of Brea in Orange County, and successfully defended through trial a $45 million class action lawsuit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. He previously was successful in defending a $75 million licensing arbitration, a $30 million unfair competition class action, a $40 million securities fraud and RICO class action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, and a $20 million insurance coverage action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, as well as numerous contract, real estate, and limited partnership actions. Richard has a number of appellate decisions in California to his credit, including Harper v. 24 Hour Fitness, 167 Cal. App. 4th 966 (2008), Mount Olympus Property Owners Association v. Shpirt, 59 Cal. App. 4th 885 (1997), Re-Open Rambla, Inc. v. County of Los Angeles, 39 Cal. App. 4th 1499 (1995), and Cole v. Sea Ray Boats, Inc., 32 Cal. Rptr. 2d 431 (1994) (de-published).. Education. Richard is a 1986 graduate of Loyola Law School, where he externed for Justice Otto Kaus of the California Supreme Court, and was a member of the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society, Scott Moot Court Honors Board, and the 1985 Best Oralist in Moot Court Competition.. Richard also has a Master's in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, where he was admitted to Pi Alpha Alpha, National Honorary Society for Public Affairs & Administration, received the SCAPA Praetor Scholarship Award, and worked for the Congressional Budget Office in Washington, D.C.. Richard earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979, and studied at Worcester College, Oxford University, England.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.