Our Practice

Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP is a full-service law firm, providing representation that cuts across a wide range of legal areas including Construction Law, Corporate Transactions, Entertainment and Media, Environmental, Real Estate, Taxation and an exceptionally strong Litigation practice that handles all of these matters and more.  A description of the Firm's main practice areas and expertise follows:

The Firm’s Business/Corporate Department provides comprehensive counsel to a large number of private and publicly held companies with regard to the wide-ranging issues typically involved in general company representation. The Business/Corporate Department’s clients range in size from start-up companies to large international corporations and represent a diversity of industries.

The Business/Corporate Department is organized around several key practice areas where the Firm has established a well regarded reputation and significant expertise:

• Corporate Securities
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• International Business Transactions

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The Firm’s Entertainment and Media department provides sophisticated and proactive legal services in all media representing athletes, producers, directors, writers, authors, songwriters and recording artists, digital content and intellectual property licensors and licensees.  The Firm’s entertainment practice is international in scope with clients and matters in the U.S., Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia.

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The Environmental and Energy Department provides full service in all areas of environmental and energy law. In addition to traditional environmental and energy litigation, transactions, and regulatory issues, this interdisciplinary group serves the rapidly growing clean tech, renewable and alternative energy, and sustainability and green building sectors.

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The Firm's Insurance Department handles litigation for, and advises insurers and insureds on, litigation and coverage matters related to title insurance, entertainment, directors' and officers' liability, construction defects, and professional liability.  The nation's largest title insurers routinely consult with the Firm's Insurance group, relying on our attorneys' expertise to address high-stakes, multi-party claims. 

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The Firm has a winning track record in intellectual property trials, arbitrations and appeals nationwide. Firm lawyers have been honored for their expertise in complex, high profile patent and copyright cases and as one of the top ten nationally in trademark litigation. We bring powerful advocacy, innovative solutions and a committed, experienced team to every intellectual property case.

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The Firm’s litigators are known and respected for having a result-oriented, cost-effective approach to success in the courtroom. The Firm has built a reputation as the go-to litigators for high-stakes and high-value cases. Since most cases do not end up in trial, in many firms litigators do not accumulate significant trial expertise. In contrast, at Glaser Weil the Firm is abundant with seasoned litigators who regularly try complex, high-profile cases. In part, this is a result of being the Firm of choice by clients who believe a case may ultimately go to trial. Indeed, the Firm's trial lawyers are often retained on the eve of trial for exactly this purpose, achieving successful results in cases that had languished or been considered unresolvable.

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The Firm’s Real Estate Department provides a broad range of legal services for clients in California, Nevada and throughout the country. The Real Estate Department’s areas of practice include real estate acquisitions and dispositions, secured lending, including restructuring and workouts, construction, architecture and related development matters, leasing, hospitality, land use, and environmental risk analysis, and with the Corporate and Tax Departments, structuring the ownership and investment vehicles in connection with real estate acquisition and development. The Firm's Real Estate attorneys are knowledgeable in multiple disciplines and bring a broad range of expertise to each project. In recent years the Firm has provided lead real estate counsel services to the developers of “CityCenter” in Las Vegas – the largest Real Estate development in the history of the U.S.

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The Firm’s Tax Department engages in tax planning for mergers, acquisitions and other forms of business transactions, and are adept at negotiating and structuring business transactions and combining knowledge in the areas of corporate law, securities law and taxation. The Firm's tax attorneys regularly represent individual and business clients in tax audits, Controversies and, when necessary, tax litigation. State and local taxation is also an important part of the Firm's tax practice.

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