Firm Profile
As the firm has developed, its regular clients have expanded their businesses and investments. The firm has counseled and assisted numerous clients in obtaining and developing commercial and residential rental properties. The firm has undertaken negotiations on behalf of clients and has handled a great many litigation matters involving leases, sales contracts, options, easements, broker's agreements and lien matters. The firm has assisted clients with matters involving title and ownership rights. As clients have needed, the firm has adapted to provide services in additional areas of law thereby continuing to serve as a well rounded legal resource. The firm also maintains associations with experts in areas of law in which it does not concentrate so as to provide the broadest possible legal resources for its clients.
The firm's clientele has been as diverse as the number of practice areas in which it has handled cases. It has represented individuals in labor disputes, divorce proceedings, real estate matters, criminal defense and personal litigation matters. It has counseled families in probate, juvenile and administrative proceedings. It has advised corporations on a vast number of matters including business formation, partnership and stock purchase agreements, shareholders' agreements, employee contracts, general labor policy issues and many forms of corporate litigation. Drawing on its reputation in the legal community, the firm is consistently sought out as a resource by colleagues in the legal profession. The Law Offices of Scott M. Annes, Ltd. frequently is utilized by colleagues and other professionals in their own complex legal matters.
The firm has developed principally as a result of Scott Annes's favorable reputation with his colleagues in the legal profession. He is well respected as an authority on numerous legal research methods. He is consistently conversant in the most recent and cutting edge developments of computerized research including Lexis, Westlaw and the internet.
Relying on those research abilities and his reputation, Scott Annes was able to develop a substantial litigation practice with the help of an informal network of small firms and other solo practitioners. As a result of numerous referrals, the firm has ventured into a vast number of practice areas including: commercial real estate transactions, corporation formation and management, criminal and juvenile defense, estate preparation and probate administration, bankruptcies, divorce and family law matters, employment law, administrative law and many other areas of practice.
Since starting his own practice, Scott Annes has acquired significant trial experience in both civil and criminal matters. He has tried cases involving atypical issues in obscure areas of law with great success. He has also represented clients at mediation and arbitration hearings before state and federal administrative agencies.