Morgantown, West Virginia
A two-partner firm handling estates, business matters, property and family law for people and companies in north-central West Virginia.
Established
In practice since 2004
Fees
Flat-fee options
Availability
Consultations within 48 hours
Your matter
One point of contact
Practice areas
We keep the list short on purpose. Anything outside it goes to a firm we would use ourselves.
Wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney and health care directives, drafted so the people who sign them can read them. When a death has already happened, we walk the executor through probate in the county court, from the first filing to the final settlement.
Learn more about estate planning and probateForming the company, writing the operating agreement, reviewing the lease, papering the sale. We also handle the conversation most owners put off — who runs the business, and on what terms, when the founder stops.
Learn more about business and commercial lawResidential and commercial closings, title review, deeds and easements, and the boundary, access and right-of-way questions that come with older parcels. Landlord and tenant leases reviewed before they are signed, not after.
Learn more about real estateDivorce, parenting plans, support and modifications, plus the prenuptial and separation agreements written to survive a reading years later. Negotiated where that serves you, tried where it does not.
Learn more about family law
Our approach
A firm this size can do something a larger one cannot: hold the whole of a matter in one head. The partner you meet at the first consultation is the partner who drafts the documents, files them, stands up at the hearing, and answers when you call about it a year later.
We will tell you early what a matter is likely to cost and what it is unlikely to accomplish. If a different firm is better suited to it, we say so at the first meeting and make the introduction.
Neither of us has ever handed a client file to someone they have not met.
How we work
Nothing is billed and no file is opened until the scope and the fee are written down and you have said yes to both.
Thirty minutes at no charge, in the office or by phone. You describe the situation; we tell you whether it is a matter we should take.
A written summary of the work, what it costs, and what we need from you. A flat fee wherever the work allows one, an hourly rate where it does not.
Drafting, filing, negotiating, closing. You hear from us at each step, not only when the matter is finished.
Request a consultation
A few sentences is enough. We call back within one business day and tell you plainly whether this is a matter for us, for another firm, or for no lawyer at all.
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