Business Law / Business Disputes

• Partnership or Owner Disputes
• Unfair Business Practices
• Copyright and Trademark Infringement
• Business Fraud / Embezzlement
• Judicial Dissolution of Business Entities
• Shareholder Derivative Lawsuits
• Breach of Fiduciary Duty/ Misappropriation of Assets
• Collection Cases
• Breach of Contract and Breach of Warranty
• Intentional or Negligent Interference with Contractual Relationships or Business Advantage

The attorneys at Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle LLP (TLD) have counseled hundreds of corporations, LLC’s, and other business entities in all aspects of the business life cycle, from formation to Shareholder Agreements, Subscription Agreements, Buy-Sell Agreements, structured buy-out’s, sale or purchase of the business, passing interests from one generation to the next, stock bonus agreements or phantom equity plans through dissolution. TLD’s corporate attorneys are well-versed in the corporate issues which arise from running a business. We counsel business owners on the most effective ways to form a corporation, including how to capitalize the company.… read more

Corporate / Transactional

• Corporation formation and funding
• Limited Liability Company formation and funding
• Family Limited Partnerships
• Buy/Sell Agreements
• Development and implementation of strategies to minimize taxation
• Techniques to Transfer ownership with minimum tax burden
• Dissolution Techniques
• Employee retention strategies

The attorneys at Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle, LLP have counseled hundreds of corporations, LLC’s, and other business entities in all aspects of the business life cycle, from formation to Shareholder Agreements, Subscription Agreements, Buy-Sell Agreements, structured buy-out’s, sale or purchase of the business, passing interests from one generation to the next, stock bonus agreements or phantom equity plans through dissolution. Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle’s corporate attorneys are well-versed in the corporate issues which arise from running a business. We counsel business owners on the most effective ways to form a corporation, including how to capitalize the company.… read more

Employment Law

• Wage and Hour Disputes Including Issues of Overtime, Meal Time, Break and Vacation Pay
• Workplace Discrimination or Harassment
• Wrongful Termination

Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle’s attorneys counsel, strategize, and handle litigation on employment issues concerning termination, harassment, discrimination, and employment contracts, and also provide training such as legally required sexual harassment training.

Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle’s attorneys understand the significance of labor and employment laws on individuals and businesses. Our mission is to advocate for clients in the complex and sensitive area of employment law through sound, practical and understandable advice.… read more

Estate Planning

• Revocable Living Trusts — for single individuals and married couples
• Wills including pour-over wills
• Durable Power of Attorney
• Advance Health Care Directive
• Irrevocable Trusts
• Three-way Marital Trusts
• Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs)/li>
• Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts (ILITs)
• Charitable Planning
• Special Needs Trusts (SNTs)
• Entity Formation and Family Limited Partnerships

TLD Estate Planning Video

Our office represents clients in drafting, executing and maintaining their estate plan. Estate planning for most individuals include the execution of a revocable living trust, pour-over will, durable power of attorney and advance health care directives. Our office helps individuals and married couples execute and implement the appropriate estate plan for their situation. We take into account our clients goals, desires and nature of their assets to prepare and implement the appropriate estate planning documents. We will counsel you on tax ramifications as it applies to your situation and the constantly evolving laws.  … read more

Family Law

• Divorce/ Legal Separation
• Child Custody / Visitation
• Paternity
• Property Division
• Child and Spousal Support
• Pretrial Litigation, Litigation
• Mediation
• Modification of prior orders
• Pre-marriage, post-divorce issues and agreements
• Guardianships

Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle, LLP (TLD) approaches all family law matters with compassion and experience. Our family law practice is headed by managing partner Daniel R. Gold, a certified family law specialist. We focus on helping our clients reach fair and equitable resolutions through these issues, which often have emotional consequences as well as financial ramifications. Whether your matter requires a gentle hand to guide you through an amicable proceeding or someone to lead a battle through tough litigation, TLD has the experience you need..… read more

Financial Institutions

Secured and unsecured lending. Regulatory compliance. Loan participations. Secondary market transactions. Problem loans and workouts. Lender liability. Loan documentation. Creditor rights. Receivership proceedings. Creditor bankruptcy. … read more

Healthcare Law

Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle, LLP provides resources to address the issues facing its clients, including the entire spectrum of the health industry. We represent physicians, health systems, managed care companies, nursing facilities, and home care providers and help manage their businesses through the complex healthcare laws and other regulatory, including corporate work, formation, and mergers and acquisitions; labor and employment law, contract review, asset protection, litigation, and real estate issues.

In order to assist our clients, we utilize our 50-year plus history to counsel and assist our healthcare clients in such diverse areas as: medical contract review and formation, Medicare and Medicaid audits, fraud and abuse, medical organization formation and operations, managed care contracting, HIPAA compliance, licensing and certification, Medical Board accusations, practice and facility purchases, sales and mergers, medical license and hospital privilege disputes. … read more

Insurance / Self-Insured Defense

• Auto and Trucking Accidents
• Employment Claims
• Premises Liability
• Product Liability
• Professional Liability

Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle, LLP has always had top quality litigators and has built on that tradition as the firms continues to grow. We have the experience, expertise, and resources necessary for the highest quality representation available in a cost effective manner. Included within the scope of litigation handled by the firm is the defense of claims on behalf of both insured and self-insured clients. We are experienced in the defense of a wide variety of lawsuits such as those involving product liability, employment related claims, professional liability, premises liability, automobile and trucking accidents, personal torts such as defamation, etc. The firm also represents several self-insured clients in their litigation. We serve as national counsel for a major manufacturer with responsibility for overseeing product liability litigation throughout the country. … read more

Litigation

• Breach of Contract
• Fraud
• Intentional or Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress
• Common Counts (Open Book Accounts/ Money Had and Received)

Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle, LLP is experienced in both the defense and prosecution of civil lawsuits. Whether we are representing a plaintiff or a defendant, we will aggressively pursue our client’s goals. Above all, at Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle, LLP we pride ourselves on our responsiveness to clients. As the client, you have a right to be informed and involved in the decisions affecting your case. We also know that litigation is both time-consuming and can be a financial burden for our clients. We therefore work with our clients to determine the most cost effective and efficient means of satisfying our client’s needs. … read more

Mediation

Mediation is a process by which a neutral party assists two or more parties reach a resolution of their disputes. Mediation can benefit parties by substantial savings of the time, expense and aggravation of protracted litigation of disputes. The process can be engaged in at any time before or during litigation.

Our firm offers Mediation services for a variety of disputes in areas such as probate, trusts, elder abuse, business, real property and personal injury. Joseph Lumsdaine has both received and conducted training in mediation of litigated cases and has handled more than 50 mediations. … read more

Personal Injury

• Wrongful Death
• Automobile Accidents
• Slip and Fall Injuries
• Premises Liability
• Medical Malpractice
• Products Liability

Our firm believes in justice for all. Our attorneys have the dedication and desire to take a stand against big interests – and win – for victims and their families during their times of need.

TLD attorneys have a proven record of obtaining substantial and positive results during trial and before. We have a success rate exceeding 90 percent in obtaining positive settlements and jury awards for our clients. Our firm has successfully represented victims and their families at trial and through the appeals process with sensitivity and serious advocacy. … read more

Probate

• Will or Trust Contests
• Financial and Physical Elder Abuse
• Conservatorships and Guardianships
• Removal of Trustee/ Trustee’s Breach of Fiduciary Duty

Our office represents clients in all types of probate matters in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. We handle routine estate administrations to transfer title of real property (also more commonly known as real estate), bank accounts and other assets belonging to a decedent that cannot pass via a trust or any other method thereby requiring probate. While probate is a complex and often lengthy process, our office is very experienced with probate matters and handle all such matters with efficiency.

Probate matters involving decedent’s estates include obtaining Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration, Summary Probate Proceedings, Spousal Elections and Set Aside Proceedings. Our office is also very adept at representing clients in will contests and other litigation matters involving wills and trusts in probate court. We also handle other matters involving decedent’s affairs including wrongful death, petitions to return property to belonging to an estate, elder abuse claims among other causes of action as appropriate based on the situation. … read more

Real Estate

• Quiet Title and Partition Actions
• Breach of Real Estate Purchase Agreements
• Easement and Property Border Line Disputes
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
• Construction Defect
• Mechanic’s Lien
• Judicial Foreclosures
• Complex Unlawful Detainer Actions

Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle, LLP provides real estate services in commercial contracts, insurance issues, construction disputes, mechanic’s liens, lender liability, eminent domain, zoning, unlawful detainer, purchase and sale contracts, real estate contract breaches, foreclosure, leasing, real estate development and financing and broker liability disputes.

As part of our full real estate service, our attorneys handle a wide variety of real estate transactions involving real estate acquisition, disposition, financing, leasing, development, construction, joint venture structuring, zoning, and related areas. We have successfully, efficiently, and effectively handled real estate transactions such as purchase and sales, leasing of commercial, office, retail, and industrial and residential properties. … read more

Taxation

Advanced planning for all types of taxation, including but not limited to counseling on the minimization of estate taxes (also known as “death taxes”), capital gains and corporate tax, real property tax increases, state and local taxes.

Our firm has aided many clients in structuring transactions in order to minimize and plan for estate taxes, with advance planning techniques such as gifting of interest, QTIP, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts and QPERT’s.

In addition, our firm has counseled clients (both individual and corporate) on how to properly structure and minimize the tax impacts of exiting a business, such as a stock purchase sale, asset sale, installment sale of a business, and gifting strategies prior to retirement by the owner in an effort to reduce the tax burden to the individual or the corporation.

Our attorneys can assist clients with analyzing the proper vehicle for purchasing assets in order to save tax dollars upon sale, and the best entity or way to acquire assets, both for the individual and the corporation. … read more

Trust Administration

Our experienced attorneys Joseph A. Lumsdaine, Mark C. Doyle, Monica Goel, W. Bailey Smith, and Jennifer S. Sawday handle living trust administration.

Post Mortem administration of a trust often requires some or all of the legal steps below including:

1. Advising the trustee on each of his or her responsibilities.
2. Preparing notices of administration, and advising the trustee as to who must receive these notices.
3. Obtaining a tax id number for the trust, confirming that all assets are properly titled in the trust, and taking legal steps to have any problematic assets properly titled.
4. Inventorying the assets of the deceased owner, and obtaining appraisals or date-of-death values for all assets.
5. Preparing and filing any court proceedings needed to protect the trustee and beneficiaries from claims by creditors.
6. Seeking court approval of the trustee’s actions if the trust terms are unclear, or there is a dispute.
7. Paying the creditors of the deceased. … read more