Business Law

Bullock & Coffman attorneys are committed to providing business and corporate clients high quality, comprehensive legal services designed to accommodate many business needs.

Corporate & General Business

Bullock & Coffman represents small and medium-sized businesses, as well as large corporations, with respect to nearly all aspects of their transactional legal needs. Regardless of the size of the company, Bullock & Coffman is committed to assisting our clients in meeting their business objectives in a timely and cost effective way.

After evaluating the client’s needs our attorneys will assist your business in determining the correct entity and structure for the proposed business enterprise. Regardless of whether a client is best served by forming a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or non-profit company, our attorneys will assist in preparing all the required organizational documentation, as well as shareholder, partner or member agreements. The firm also helps to qualify existing businesses to conduct business in other states.

In addition, our attorneys advise clients in all aspects of ongoing business affairs, such as:

  • Federal, state and local law requirements
  • Negotiation and drafting of contracts for mergers and acquisitions, sales of stock, sale of assets, and related transactions
  • Negotiation and drafting of employment agreements and other similar documents
  • E-commerce contracts and counseling
  • Employment issues

No matter how successful a business may be, disputes between partners arise daily. While minor disputes may be resolved internally, major disputes can result in business dissolution or litigation between partners. Business dissolution is, in many ways, similar to personal divorce between spouses. Money and assets must be divided, which can create a contentious environment. Our attorneys are skilled at negotiating equitable distribution of business assets and establishing a mutually agreeable buyout.

Our transactional attorneys are highly skilled, professionals committed to identifying and creating viable options for business owners and providing guidance and counsel to the client as choices are made throughout the continuation of the business. Despite the best planning, corporations and businesses may find their only course of action is litigation.

Business Litigation

Business litigation is a complex area of law, which includes an assortment of contractual and tort claims such as breach of contract fraud, tortuous interference with contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and others. Bullock & Coffman has represented business and corporate clients in a wide array of litigated matters before both state and federal courts.

The issues we handle are diverse, both in terms of the clients we counsel and the matters that we undertake. At Bullock & Coffman, we feel that the best planning yields the best results. Our attorneys approach each case with a well-thought out and reasoned line of attack, applying comprehensive techniques to all stages of a matter. Whether a lawsuit is routine in nature or characterized by extreme complexity we apply the same high degree of focus and commitment to every case.

We have handled both typical and complex commercial disputes in the following areas:

  • Partnership and shareholder relations
  • Business divorces between partners, shareholders and joint-venturers
  • Employment agreements
  • Confidentiality non-compete agreements
  • Collection matters (commercial only)
  • Commercial and contract matters
  • Fraud and negligent misrepresentation
  • Business separations
  • Injunctions
  • Trademark and intellectual property matters
  • Unfair Trade Practices Act
  • Software licensing agreements
  • Defamation, libel and slander

Our principal aim is to work with clients to establish an objective at the outset of each case and then proceed on a course which provides for the most expeditious and cost-effective means of achieving it. As part of this process, clients are involved in all manner of important decisions affecting their cases. We handle cases from inception through trial and appeal, as well all forms of alternative dispute resolution (mediation and arbitration).