Metropolitan Detroit attorneys for all of your legal needs
At Paskel, Tashman & Walker, P.C., our successes have fostered trusting relationships with our clients and encouraged them to come to us with all of their legal needs. We provide individuals and small businesses with exceptional, affordable help in a wide variety of areas.
- Professional negligence
- Employment law
- Business transactions and litigation
- Real estate
- Probate and estate planning
- Criminal defense
- Bankruptcy
- Appeals
Professional Negligence
Business owners and professionals are responsible for the caliber of their work; they can be legally liable for errors, omissions or negligence. Professional liability claims might include fraud, misrepresentation, non-performance, loss of data, or system or product failure.
Our Michigan professional liability attorneys help hold responsible a variety of professionals including:
- Accountants
- Appraisers
- Architects/design professionals
- Bankers
- Corporate directors and officers
- Engineers
- Lawyers
- Mortgage brokers
- Realtors
Employment law
Our employment law attorneys work diligently to protect workers’ rights under complex and perpetually changing state and federal workplace laws. Our significant experience includes pursuing claims for:
- Discrimination (gender, age, race, disability)
- Sexual harassment
- Unlawful termination
- Retaliation
- Wage and hour violations
- Americans With Disabilities Act violations
- Family and Medical Leave Act violations
Business transactions and litigation
Our business law attorneys help Michigan small businesses at every stage. We get to know your business and your objectives and can help with all of your business needs:
- Business plan
- Entity selection
- Business formation
- Licensing agreements
- Employment contracts
- Contractor agreements
- Non-compete agreements
- Confidentiality agreements
- Asset acquisition
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Business dissolution
- Contract disputes
- Litigation
Real estate
Our real estate attorneys represent individuals and businesses throughout Michigan when they buy or sell property. When disputes arise, we champion our clients’ interests. We have particular experience with:
- Boundary disputes
- Quiet title actions
- Property tax assessment challenges
- Zoning
- Easements
- Land use issues
- Landlord-tenant law
- Title disputes
In the current real estate market, we understand that owning or investing in real estate is a challenging endeavor, and our representation now includes:
- Mortgage fraud
- Foreclosure
- Land contract forfeiture
Probate and estate planning
Paskel, Tashman & Walker, P.C. designs comprehensive estate plans that fit our clients’ needs, priorities, resources, and responsibilities. Our estate planning and probate experience includes:
- Wills
- Trusts
- Revocable trusts
- Irrevocable trusts
- Living trusts
- Trust administration
- Powers of attorney
- Patient advocate documents
- Living wills
- Probate administration
- Guardianships
- Conservatorships
- Charitable gift planning
- Elder law
Criminal defense
The criminal defense attorneys at Paskel, Tashman & Walker, P.C. aggressively defend individuals accused of committing a wide range of crimes, including:
- Felonies
- Misdemeanors
- Traffic violations
- DUI
- White-collar crimes
- Drug crimes
- Murder
- Assault
- Domestic violence
- Sexual assault
- Prostitution
- Theft
- Trespass
- Vandalism
Bankruptcy
The Bankruptcy Code was designed to help people and businesses saddled with overwhelming debt get a fresh start. The bankruptcy attorneys at Paskel, Tashman & Walker, P.C. can help individuals and small businesses start anew—debt free—in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceeding, or we can help people organize an affordable payment plan under Chapter 13.
Appeals
Appellate practice is tremendously different than practicing law at the trial court level. Our appellate lawyers are experts in the different rules and procedures that state and appellate courts employ. Paskel, Tashman & Walker, P.C. pursues appeals on behalf of clients in all of our civil and criminal practice areas. Our experience includes arguing cases before the Michigan Court of Appeals, the Michigan Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. We achieve results on appeal that reverse adverse lower decisions or protect positive results obtained in the trial court.
