BUCKINGHAM'S KEY AREAS OF PRACTICE

Business Practice Group:  Our Business group provides day-to-day guidance focused on helping clients overcome challenges and capitalize on opportunities. Our Akron lawyers have extensive experience in advising closely held companies, nonprofit organizations, private foundations and publicly held companies. Specialty areas include corporate law and franchise law. In addition, our attorneys provide counsel and representation in matters of finance law, public law, taxation and employee benefits, immigration law, mergers & acquisitions, and school law.

Employment and Workers' Compensation Practice Group:  The Employment Law group represents employers with regard to labor and employment relations including collective bargaining and grievance, arbitration, defense against union organizing campaigns, employment discrimination litigation, ERISA litigation, wrongful discharge litigation, unfair competition and trade secret litigation. Our attorneys represent clients before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, and the State Employment Relations Board. In addition, the Employment Law group provides consulting on personnel practices, wage-hour matters and unemployment compensation, as well as DWRF issues, handicap reimbursement and subrogation.  The Workers' Compensation section of the group represents state-funded, self-insured and public employers before the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, the Industrial Commission, the Court of Common Pleas, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Litigation Practice Group:  Our full-service litigation group is experienced in alternate dispute resolution, family law, complex litigation, appellate cases and criminal defense and governmental investigations. Our attorneys regularly handle commercial cases, bankruptcies,  and disputes involving copyrights, patents, service marks, trademarks and trade secrets. We also specialize in family law, environmental law and toxic tort as well as creditors' rights, insurance cases and white collar defense.

Health & Medicine Practice Group:  Our Health Law group offers comprehensive legal services to a wide range of clients in the health care industry, including hospitals, physicians, physician group practices, health care facilities, medical staffs, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, managed care plans, MSOs, IPAs, PPOs, HMOs, home health care providers, durable medical goods suppliers, allied health professionals and other health related businesses.  Our Medical Malpractice Group provides comprehensive legal services to clients nationwide in malpractice issues.

Real Estate & Construction Practice Group:  The Real Estate group represents clients in all types of real estate matters, including the sale, leasing, acquisition, financing, development, construction and zoning of residential, commercial and industrial property. Our Real Estate attorneys have expertise in estate planning, tax, construction, insurance, and environmental law.  The Construction group offers assistance in all phases of construction, representing owners, contractors, developers, subcontractors, material suppliers, engineers, architects and bankers in each aspect of the industry and in both public and private construction projects.

Trusts & Estates Practice Group:  This group provides a broad array of estate and business-succession planning services, including management of assets in the event of incapacity, disposition and management at death, and arranging for payment of taxes. Our Trusts & Estates attorneys have extensive experience in planning for owners of growing companies and developing strategies for ensuring smooth generation-to-generation transfer while maximizing growth.