Taxes, Trusts, and Estates: Tax planning for businesses, organizations and transactions, and tax and estate planning for individuals, is an important aspect of our full-service representation of clients.
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.
MGM represented the mortgagee in this case. This case concerned the efforts of a mortgagee to collect in state court the amounts due from the personal guarantors of the loan after the property was sold during the mortgagor’s bankruptcy proceeding. The Kentucky Court of Appeals found that the fact that...
Landlord sought recovery of unpaid rent and costs to repair damage to the residence which was not returned in the condition that it was rented. Trial court awarded recovery of all amounts including attorneys’ fees under KRS 363.660, tenant’s willful breach of the lease. The Court of Appeals reversed on...
Cummins v. Morita, et al. (No. 2007-CA-002101-MR & No. 2008-CA-000212-MR, KY Court of Appeals 2010) A borrower obtained a mortgage loan and subsequently complained that he had been under a belief he was dealing with a specific lender. The borrower further claimed the mortgage broker who handled the transaction made...
MGM represented various businesses that participated in a workers’ compensation self insurance group called AIK. These groups are permitted by Kentucky statute for the purpose of diluting workers’ compensation liability by spreading out the risks to a large group of employers. Under the plan, all of the approximately 3,000 businesses...
MGM represented a horse training facility in recovering back rent owed by a trainer who breached her lease agreement. The trainer responded to the suit by filing a counterclaim seeking damages for an allegedly improper lien placed on the horses she trained but did not own. Judgment was granted on...
MGM assisted a local small business group in obtaining a judgment against an individual former co-owner defendant for theft and embezzlement. After the judgment was entered, the defendant could not be found for more than a year. Once he was located, MGM sought to satisfy the judgment by serving a...
A dispute arose in a limited partnership after the relationship between one of the general partners and a limited partner deteriorated. The limited partnership was formed for the purpose of leasing and developing shopping centers. The only other general partner was terminally ill with cancer and desperately tried to resolve...
A customer purchased a used vehicle, took delivery and then almost immediately defaulted under the purchase contract terms by failing to pay. The vehicle was repossessed and then the customer filed a tort suit against the car dealership seeking damages for emotional distress and inconvenience that resulted from the repossession...
A homebuyer accepted an offer to purchase the home of a couple that was moving out of state. Due to the age of the house, the listing realtor suggested that a prelisting inspection, including a termite inspection, be conducted before listing the property. The sellers had the house professionally inspected....