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Real Estate: Assisting clients in purchasing and leasing real estate is a significant part of the legal services we provide. We provide title searches, title insurance, and closing services.
Commercial and Corporate: We represent clients in all manner of business transactions. The types of transactions in which we assist clients include business organizations and business acquisitions and sales, including an analysis of the tax and legal implications of the transactions.
Landlord sued to enforce commercial lease against tenant. Tenant had allowed her limited liability company to be administratively dissolved and entered into an amended lease with landlord in her individual name. The parties did not use attorneys for the preparation or execution of the amended lease and merely struck through...
The trial court granted a motion for judgment on the pleadings because the personal guarantees were unenforceable as a matter of law as not complying with the requirements for a guaranty of indebtedness set out by Kentucky statute. Personal guarantee/business debt/KRS 371.065/credit agreement/unenforceable/sophisticated business person Read more ›
...The trial court granted a motion for judgment on the pleadings because the personal guarantees were unenforceable as a matter of law as not complying with the requirements for a guaranty of indebtedness set out by Kentucky statute. Personal guarantee/business debt/KRS 371.065/credit agreement/unenforceable/sophisticated business person Read more ›
...The Kentucky Supreme Court clarified that the corporate fiduciary duty statute defined the duties of a director when acting in his official capacity on behalf of the corporation, but did not displace fiduciary duties when he was acting in his individual capacity and not in a corporate one. Thus, common...
Resident of Atlanta shipped item back to Atlanta by UPS while in Texas. The package travelled through the UPS hub in Louisville, Kentucky. While processing through the hub, Louisville Metro police used a drug sniffing dog as part of a task force to “smell out” probable cause. Identifying the package...
MGM represented the unsecured creditors committee of one of the sister companies that was a joint debtor in this case. This case concerned whether MGM’s client was liable for the environmental reclamation obligations of its sister company based on state law derivative liability or federal law substantive consolidation. The U.S....
Property owners in Fayette and Clark Counties in Kentucky learned of an effort to “nominate” their property to be listed on the National Historic Registry run by the National Park Service. The properties involved totaled well over 10,000 acres and would be designated as a National Historic District. Several property owners...
Adjacent landowner sought to enforce deed restrictions against current property owner to prohibit the sale of used cars and repair of trucks on the premises. Current property owner planned to build a new car dealership on the site with the obvious related business of sale of used cars and truck...
Blue Skies Racing Stable, LLC appealed a judgment of the Fayette Circuit Court dismissing appellee, O’Sullivan Farms, LLC from its declaratory action. The Court of Appeals reversed and remanded. The controversy centered over who was entitled to ownership of a thoroughbred stallion named LIMEHOUSE. Blue Skies contended that it had...