Practice Areas

The Essenson Law Firm provides high quality legal services from routine legal counseling to civil litigation advocacy, from trial to appellate. Arbitration and mediation services are also available. Areas of practice include the following:

Appellate Practice, civil.

Business, both transactional (e.g. contracts, and purchases/sales of businesses) and commercial litigation as well as construction litigation, collections, and business incorporation/dissolution.

Family Law, including prenuptial, post-nuptial agreements, dissolution of marriage, property settlement agreements, litigation, adoption, and name change.

Guardianship, from contested incapacity determinations to routine guardianship administration. We represent alleged incapacitated persons, adjudicated persons, guardians (both professional and family), and interested Family members.

Real Property, including purchases and sales, condominium law, homeowners association law, landlord/tenant, leases, real estate litigation, easements, covenants and restrictions, and mortgage foreclosure.

Torts, including personal injury, fraud, property damage, slip and fall, products liability, trade secrets violations, and automobile accidents.

Wills/Probate, from drafting instruments (e.g. Wills, Durable Powers of Attorney, Designations of Healthcare Surrogate, Living Wills, Trusts, Designations of Pre-Need Guardian) to routine and complex estate administration and probate litigation.