Harfizah, Faziah & Co.
Advocates & Solicitors
PRACTICE AREAS
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Banking & Finance
A banking and finance practice within a private law firm can represent a wide spectrum of clients in the financial and commercial areas, including banks, bank holding companies, and clients with banking affiliations. These attorneys have substantial knowledge in state and federal banking regulation, enforcement actions, tax law, bank mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, commercial paper, secured financing, real estate and Uniform Commercial Code matters. Lawyers with this expertise are also found within the banking institutions themselves in a corporate setting. This practice area is largely transactional, and overlaps with many other areas of law. The banking and financial industry is heavily regulated, at the federal and state level, so many attorneys are needed in compliance work, and occasionally administrative law matters
Real Estate
Real estate law relates to any issue involving real property. Many lawyers have a special expertise in real estate law, while many others encounter tangential issues of real estate law in other practice areas. Real estate tends to be a fairly technical practice area with a lot of accounting functions and tax implications. It is common for real estate issues to be dealt with on a regular basis by tax and probate and estate planning practitioners. Many in-house, corporate attorneys deal with real estate issues. For example, many companies lease retail space as part of their business, purchase large commercial sites for their own office space, or lease space in their building to other businesses. Real estate lawyers also represent individuals making all kinds of real estate transactions. Title companies, mortgage companies, and other lending institutions will also hire real estate legal specialists. Government real estate lawyers may deal with issues such as condemnation and eminent domain, and are usually hired at the local level
Corporate & Commercial
A general corporate practice involves the entire spectrum of legal services for a diversified client base. Work includes corporate counseling, negotiating and preparing legal documents for all types of business transactions, from sales agreements to complex joint ventures and business combinations. Private law firms can represent publicly-held companies, privately-held businesses, start-ups, venture capitalists, investment bankers, and others. They will deal with issues such as joint ventures, financing, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, securities, tax, and more. Attorneys are also found working within corporations as “in-house” corporate counsel. For these lawyers the corporation for which they work is their client. The issues they handle may include all those mentioned above, as well as handling employment issues or lawsuits against the company arising out of personal injury, products liability, or breaches of contract.
Civil Litigation
Civil litigation runs the gamut from a basic marriage dissolution to a complex, mass torts case with multiple plaintiffs and multiple defendants with millions of dollars at stake. In fact, any legal issue can be litigated. For example, while the probate process is generally transactional, a will can be contested and the dispute can be settled in court. While there is a very structured set of procedures in the litigation process, it can also be an amoeba–that is–the case can take twists and turns, and change in ways you don’t anticipate. The best litigators are prepared, and not easily rattled by the unexpected. For many lawyers, it is their client’s goal not to go to trial. In fact, most issues filed in court conclude in settlement. Once in the courtroom, however, the litigator is a legal specialist who combines oratory skills with legal analysis and crossexamination to convince a judge and/or a jury of his or her client’s position.
Charitable Trust & Non-Profit Organisation
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Trust & Will
Disputes over the actions (or inaction) of a trustee or executor, and interpretation of the terms of trusts, amendments, wills, or codicils, can lead to litigation between the beneficiaries or heirs and the person who is administering the trust or estate. Trustees, executors, and other fiduciaries owe duties to beneficiaries and heirs. The breach of these fiduciary duties – both intentional and negligent – can lead to will and trust litigation.
Disputes regarding mental capacity or incompetence, and the effect of cognitive impairments resulting from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia on the validity of the trusts, amendments, wills, codicils, or other estate planning instruments, can lead to trust or will contests. Similarly, disputes over whether a change to an estate planning instrument resulted from undue influence exerted by a trusted family member or other individual can result in a contest.