Practice Areas
A proactive approach allocates legal resources to improve processes and procedures that cultivate profitability and foster strategic growth, through automation, standardization and transaction structure.
Insightful Business Planning
Most litigation cuts profits and pulls business owners away from core operations. If you’re questioning your legal counsel’s value, consider an innovative approach. We partner with businesses to develop manageable, purpose-driven legal strategies. Spizzirri Law LLC works proactively to prevent issues, so you can stay focused on running your business.
Business Counsel
In today’s increasingly competitive business environment, opportunities for growth continue to expand. With dependable business counsel services, companies can achieve their strategic development objectives through Spizzirri Law LLC’s guidance. Leveraging over three decades of experience in business, law, taxation, and finance, our firm assists organizations in managing risk and optimally allocating resources by strategically overseeing legal functions. We are committed to collaborating with clients to support their business goals. While some business owners may perceive legal expenses as unnecessary, prudent investment in legal services can enhance business value and contribute to a higher sale price upon exit. For example:
1. Careful drafting of legal agreements, governing instruments and engagement letter management mitigate or eliminate civil litigation expenses.
2. Regulatory Compliances and preparation during the ordinary course of business before a regulatory investigation begins is much more cost effective than preparing documentation during an investigation or in response to regulatory information requests and then arguing for abatement of penalties and interest.
3. Risk management to mitigate unexpected loss outside the owner’s control from negligence, natural disasters, or other outside factors.
Tax Intervention
Many small businesses overlook how different state and local taxes—like sales, use, excise, payroll, personal property, and business license taxes—apply to their operations. If a company runs for years without addressing tax compliance, it may end up owing far more than the original tax amount due to added interest and penalties. Notably, sales and payroll taxes are considered trust fund taxes, so business owners can be personally liable for them, regardless of corporate protections. These debts often cannot be wiped out through personal bankruptcy and may remain with owners for many years.
Litigation
Planning for civil litigation improves the outcome of the dispute resolution process. We collaborate with clients in advance of litigation to discuss the process as it relates to the preservation of evidence in anticipation of litigation, the litigation process, settlement analysis and terms and conditions of settlement agreements.
Failure to perverse evidence can result in the inability to move your case or properly defend against a claim against the company. In addition, failure to pursue evidence can result in court-imposed sanctions against the litigant and can result in forfeiture of the case. Therefore, it is important to establish a procedure to capture and preserve documentary and digital evidence.
In addition to preserving evidence, care should be taken to implement risk management practices including prudent insurance protection against risk of loss and to cover legal fees and litigation costs associated with litigation costs, which is a primary benefit of business insurance. Therefore, it is important for legal counsel to carefully review engagement letters of insurance and especially concerning scope of coverage, deductibles, and the ability to select defense counsel.
When clients wish to pursue a claim against a defendant, we can often offer contingency fee arrangements in commercial cases, introduce our clients to litigation fundings sources, propose and manage the litigation budget and evaluate the financial, tax and legal factors associated with settlement offers including the cost-benefit analysis associated with offers of judgement, whether to make a settlement offer, and whenever to accept a settlement offer.