Civil Litigation, Business Law, Estate Planning and Real Estate
Our civil litigation lawyer team handles every matter personally, so you always work directly with your attorney.
Tampa Bay business owners, executives and professionals run into legal questions at every stage of growth: forming a company, negotiating a contract, defending against a lawsuit, or planning what happens to the business down the road. Our civil litigation law firm handles all of it from one office on West Linebaugh Avenue, so clients never have to re-explain their situation to a new attorney mid-case.
Attorneys Michael Stanton and Sean Cronin met in law school, have worked together since 2005, and founded the firm in 2011 on one principle: senior-level attention on every file. Whether you need a business litigation attorney to resolve a contract dispute or a civil litigation attorney to defend your company in court, you work directly with the lawyer trying the case, not an associate learning on it.
That same attention carries over to estate planning and real estate clients. A family drafting a will gets the same decisive, outcome-oriented approach as a corporation defending a commercial litigation matter, delivered with the efficiency of a boutique firm and the judgment of a big-firm practice.
Each practice area below is handled by an attorney with direct trial and transactional experience, not a team of rotating associates. Browse the summaries below, then visit any practice area page for more detail on how we approach that type of matter.
Clients across Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties, and statewide across Florida, turn to these four core areas of our business law firm and civil litigation practice.
As a business litigation attorney and business law attorney team, we counsel Tampa Bay companies through formation, contracts, and disputes alike. When a deal goes sideways, our business dispute attorney and contract dispute attorney work resolves the conflict with the same corporate attorney judgment we bring to everyday business legal counsel, including asset protection attorney planning for owners who want to shield what they have built.
Our civil litigation lawyer team represents businesses and individuals in disputes that require a trial attorney's preparation, whether the matter is a civil dispute attorney case between neighbors or a commercial litigation attorney matter between companies. As a civil litigation attorney and commercial litigation lawyer practice, we prepare every file as if it will be tried, which tends to resolve more of them before it has to be.
Our estate planning attorney and estate planning lawyer team builds wills, trusts and succession plans for Tampa Bay families and business owners alike. From a will attorney drafting a simple will to a trust attorney structuring a complex trust, and a probate attorney guiding families through administration, we provide the personalized attention of a boutique estate planning law firm.
Our real estate attorney and title attorney team supports both commercial real estate attorney transactions and residential real estate attorney closings across the Tampa Bay area. When a deal runs into a title dispute attorney issue or a property dispute attorney matter, our real estate litigation attorney experience and real estate legal counsel background help resolve it efficiently.
Many matters touch more than one practice area, so it helps to understand how our attorneys divide the work before you schedule a consultation.
A business litigation attorney focuses on disputes between companies, partners, or vendors, usually involving contracts or business relationships. A civil litigation attorney is the broader term and covers any non-criminal dispute, including business matters, property disagreements and other civil claims. In practice, our civil litigation lawyer team handles both, so you do not need to diagnose the distinction before calling us.
A business attorney (or corporate attorney) typically handles transactional work: contracts, formation documents, and day-to-day legal counsel for running a company. A commercial litigation attorney steps in once a dispute needs to go to court or arbitration. Our firm covers both ends, so the same team that drafted your contract can enforce it if a dispute arises later.
Yes. Many of our estate planning lawyer clients are also business owners who need a plan for what happens to the company if something happens to them. We combine estate planning attorney work (wills, trusts, probate planning) with business law attorney and asset protection attorney strategy so your personal and business plans align rather than conflict.
Not with our firm. The same real estate attorney and title attorney team that handles your closing can step in as a real estate litigation attorney if a title dispute attorney issue or property dispute attorney claim surfaces later. Keeping the same counsel on both sides of a transaction saves time and avoids repeating your file history to a new lawyer.
Not sure which practice area applies to your matter? Send us a short description of what is going on and we will tell you which attorney on our team should handle it, with no obligation and no junior associate in between.
