Commercial Real Estate Services
Landlord and Tenant Law
Business and Corporate Services
Employment and Discrimination Law Services
Estate Administration and Wealth Transfer Planning
Litigation
Commercial Real Estate Services
K&N has a well established commercial real estate law practice. Its attorneys provide a comprehensive array of legal services to owners, managers, brokers, buyers, sellers, borrowers and secured lenders.
K&N has an extensive commercial leasing practice. Our active involvement in the commercial leasing market encourages our clients to rely on us not only for our technical legal expertise, but also for our comprehensive knowledge of the marketplace and the negotiation strategies which incorporate that knowledge. K&N handles lease transactions as varied as a cursory review of a small office lease, or as complicated and involved as negotiations for entire buildings, including the letter of intent and the work letter. Our practice is both local and national in scope, with the firm representing landlords and tenants in all types of commercial lease transactions, including office, industrial and retail.
Our attorneys also represent clients in connection with the acquisition, disposition and financing of commercial real estate. K&N's acquisition and disposition practice includes expertise in structuring transactions to minimize transfer costs, and maximize asset protection. Our secured lending practice includes a full range of related expertise such as inter-creditor agreements and foreclosure. Our extensive experience representing parties on both sides of commercial real estate transactions gives us a comprehensive perspective and understanding of all issues involved, and enables us to deliver the highest quality representation to our clients.
K&N represents numerous real estate brokerage and management companies, assisting in all aspects of the discharge of their duties. K&N counsels clients on corporate issues, commission disputes, and disputes over non-compete and trade secret provisions in brokerage agreements.
Our extensive experience in litigation and arbitration proceedings makes us uniquely suited to provide practical advice to our real estate clients on how to avoid litigation and its high costs. Where litigation cannot be avoided, however, we are prepared to zealously represent our clients' interest in court or before administrative agencies.
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Landlord and Tenant Law
Since its founding in 1933, K&N has represented owners of multi-family residential dwellings and commercial properties as well as their property management companies. K&N first established the landlord tenant practice in Washington, D.C., but soon recognized the need to expand the practice into the Maryland (the 1960's) and Virginia (1970's) suburbs to fully service its expanding client base. Today, K&N is recognized as one of the premier landlord and tenant practice groups in the Washington Metropolitan area. Our attorneys are admitted to practice in all three jurisdictions and are well acquainted with the local laws enforced by the various county agencies.
The Landlord Tenant practice is comprehensive. In addition to failure to pay rent cases, our attorneys handle all other types of legal proceedings landlords encounter, such as complex breach of lease actions, holdover suits, housing code violation complaints, tenant bankruptcy filings in federal bankruptcy court, as well as discrimination complaints before the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, state and local housing and human rights commissions and agencies.
In addition to providing quality advice, counsel and litigation services, our attorneys and staff regularly provide training seminars in landlord tenant law and procedures to help our clients manage their properties effectively and productively. K&N stays abreast of developments and issues of interest in the industry through our memberships in the Property Management Association and the Northern Virginia Apartment Association.
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Business and Corporate Services
K&N's business and corporate attorneys assist with a wide range of business objectives for large, mid-sized and small businesses and individuals. K&N is fully equipped to provide integrated business and legal advice to meet the day to day needs of our clients. K&N helps clients determine the best business form to meet their needs. K&N assists with the planning and structuring of transactions and the organizing of new business entities. It advises clients on corporate governance, closely held business issues and asset and stock sale transactions. K&N negotiates, drafts and interprets agreements (purchase agreements, stockholder agreements, employment, consulting and independent contractor agreements with appropriate non-competition, non-solicitation and non-disclosure provisions), facilitates business combinations (such as mergers and acquisitions), provides due diligence services, and, when necessary, commercial litigation. Regardless of the size of the client or transaction, we provide affordable, customized, sophisticated legal services.
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Employment and Discrimination Law Services
K&N provides comprehensive employment law services to both employers and employees. Employment law is one of the fastest growing areas of law. K&N's employment law attorneys seek to protect their employer clients from unproductive work environments and expensive litigation by advising them of their legal responsibilities before problems arise. K&N counsels businesses on: how to handle complaints of discrimination, including sexual harassment; disability accommodation requirements; family and medical leave; wage and hour; drug testing; privacy issues and the requirements for enforceable non-compete agreements. Through presentations, K&N lawyers train managers on how to handle discrimination complaints and how to conduct an investigation of a complaint. Employers are advised that to avoid liability for the actions of their employees, employers must take proactive measures to avoid discrimination in the work place.
In addition to giving its clients meaningful and practical advice on how to avoid problems, K&N prepares, interprets and analyzes employment related documents for employers and employees such as employment agreements, employee manuals, stock option agreements, severance agreements and non-compete and non-solicitation of employee/customer agreements. Trained in mediation, K&N lawyers often facilitate resolutions of employment disputes that benefit all parties. Our mediation services are available to other attorneys to mediate their clients' disputes.
When litigation is unavoidable, K&N is prepared to handle the matter from start to finish, including an appeal. As experienced litigators, K&N's employment lawyers handle matters for plaintiffs and defendants in both the administrative agencies and the state and federal courts. Well versed in the changing laws, K&N lawyers can maneuver through the complex procedural rules and regulations to benefit their clients. We are assertive and thorough.
All of K&N's employment law services are provided with the commitment to give you practical, affordable, quality representation.
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Estate Administration and Wealth Transfer Planning
Our highly regarded Wealth Transfer Planning and Estate Administration Group owes its success to its focus on the unique nature of each estate. We recognize that your estate - its growth, preservation and transfer - will be affected by your values and the values and needs of your loved ones, in a very personal way. When we work with you, this idea - the special nature of your estate - always guides us.
Of course, we bring to bear the highest level of estate planning skills in developing and implementing your estate plan. We expertly handle all aspects of estate planning including wills, trusts, and estate administration. As part of our wealth preservation and transfer planning, we prepare family partnership and limited liability company agreements, and shareholder buy-sell agreements. We also help to restructure a business where appropriate to implement your wealth transfer plan. We are experienced in preparing estate and gift tax returns, and in handling IRS audits. We also handle contested estate and trust matters.
In order to provide the best wealth transfer plan tailored to your estate, we must be more than careful draftsmen of documents, and more than top legal technicians. We believe it's essential that we have an understanding of your values and the needs of your family members so that we can develop an overall plan for your wealth transfer. As a result, we will become not only your lawyers, but your confidants and advisors. In so doing, we will then be able to provide you with the answers to help you make the right choices, and be there in the future whenever you need us.
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Litigation
A strength of King & Nordlinger has always been its ability to provide its clients with experienced, highly professional litigation representation, at a cost far less than charged by larger or less experienced firms.
K&N attorneys have vast experience and expertise in litigating civil cases of all types on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. Our attorneys appear on a regular basis in state and federal courts, as well as administrative agencies, in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. K&N attorneys are also experienced in arbitration and mediation.
The following are examples of the types of cases the firm has litigated or arbitrated, and reveal the experience K&N attorneys have in litigation in a wide variety of practice areas:
- Insurance Fraud
- Employment Discrimination
- Housing Discrimination
- Broker Commission Disputes
- Land Title Disputes
- Commercial Lease Interpretation
- Enforceability of Non-compete and Trade Secret Provisions
- All types of contract disputes, including employment, residential sales, vendor and collective bargaining agreements.
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