Articles Limited-Scope Design Services — Deal With the Risks to Avoid Disaster Attorneys John H. Baker Hafez Daraee John J. Hickey Katie E. Jeremiah

A number of our attorneys and staff have professional training and experience in engineering, architecture, or landscape architecture, giving our team a unique understanding of the business and professional difficulties that design professionals face every day. Jordan Ramis' dual professionals have been in charge of or have held important management positions on projects totaling nearly a billion dollars. Our practical background enhances our ability to define and focus on issues critical to our design-professional clients' achievement of their technical, aesthetic, and financial objectives. We provide assistance with:

• Defense of professional liability claims
• Creation of or review of business agreements of all kinds
• Enforcement of rights to collect professional fees, including bankruptcy litigation
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• Mergers, purchases, and transitions
• Succession planning, dissolution, and ownership issues
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