Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Shareholder and Operating Agreements – Preparation of Shareholder Agreements and Operating Agreements with buy/sell and restrictive covenant protection. These are critically important documents to all businesses owned by more than one person.
• Business Formation
  New Business Formation – Services include all steps in the formation of a new business, including selection of the form of business – as between corporation and limited liability company and whether to elect pass-through or C corp tax status. The New Tax Act has created several new considerations in making these decisions from the inception of the business as well as the need to shift ongoing businesses to take advantage of the new tax laws.
• Business Disputes
  Business Services – Our Business Law services cover the day-to-day needs of individuals and businesses, including manufacturing concerns, automotive suppliers, health care providers, professional service groups, vendors, distributors and retailers. We specialize in assisting new entrepreneurs to structurally create the most advantageous business format, as well as business planning.
• Business Transactions
  Thav Gross is also known as the premier firm for businesses and individuals in need of Financial Crisis Management. In this arena, the firm pools its attorney resources and business approach to address tax collection defense, bankruptcy, business transactions, mortgage modification and debt resolution in order to navigate its clients through the difficulties imposed by intransigent lenders, the taxing authorities, the credit industry and business downturns.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  Employment Agreements – Representation for Employers and Employees. Employment agreements require the drafting and negotiation of restrictive covenants and non-solicitation provisions – critically important and dangerous provisions frequently included in employment agreements.
• Employment Litigation
  Healthcare Law – We offer extensive experience in healthcare law, ranging from corporate transactions to statutory and regulatory compliance for physician services, including inpatient hospital care and office practice formation and operation. Reimbursement audit issues initiated by insurance and government authorities, and medical staff and licensing issues are routinely addressed. Our primary focus is on the needs of the physician practitioner from the standpoint of business counsel, health law regulatory compliance, and asset protection. We assist our physician clients frequently with practice acquisitions (professional service agreements) with hospital organizations, business and compliance issues, and employment issues and agreements.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  David is a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. He has served as an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association and on committees of the State Bar Association for the drafting of civil jury instructions. David also has lectured on various real estate law matters.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  His financial institution representation background provides the Firm great insight in understanding what can be achieved in negotiations and litigation with the banking industry. He also represents clients in the areas of the purchase and sale of apartment buildings, shopping centers and numerous commercial and retail businesses, and landlord-tenant negotiation and dispute matters. David also concentrates a portion of his practice in the professional music industry with representation of internationally known recording artists.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Commercial litigation is complex. Unlike personal injury matters, where the issues of negligence and liability are clear, business disputes require extensive knowledge of contract law and related issues. Thav Gross has been addressing and handling such matters for over 40 years. The key to a business dispute is allocating resources in the litigation in a manner to seek the best outcome, after taking into account the cost of the representation. Too often, the mega firms devote too many attorneys to a case yielding client bills that exceed the amount of the dispute. At THAV GROSS, business litigation is viewed and evaluated as a business matter – to achieve realistic and achievable goals as the outcome.
• Social Security Disability

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  If you are a young couple with minor children, you must also have a plan in place to appoint a guardian over your children in case something happens to both spouses. This designation is made in the will. Too often, young couples put off estate planning because they feel it’s too far distant to be an issue. While we hope that is the case, we know it is not universal, and therefore the proper step is to have this issue covered.
• Wills
  Brian J. Small is a shareholder of the Firm and manages the Firm’s Bankruptcy Department, Consumer Financial Crisis Management Department, as well as the Estate Planning Department. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A., 1989) and University of Richmond School of Law, where he earned a Law degree in 1992. Brian practices in the areas of Bankruptcy law, debt resolution, and debtor work-out arrangements for consumers and businesses as well as Estate Planning for Wills and Trusts.
• Trusts
  A proper Estate Plan covers each of the above points and is not a high-cost proposition. The issues, however, are critical. If you have a Revocable Living Trust with a Pour-Over Will, and your assets are properly funded into the Trust before you pass away, your estate will avoid the Probate Process. Probate is not the end of the world, but it takes time, costs money, and all filed documents are public. By utilizing a revocable living trust, you can avoid this process. Is a Trust expensive? The answer is “No.” The same planning and analysis that we must do for a Will occurs when we do a Trust and Pour-Over Will. It’s just a different form of document used, and there is some necessary work effort needed to make sure you know how to fund the Trust while you are living.
• Power of Attorney
  The Durable Power of Attorney is the document used to appoint your spouse or a trusted relative or friend to act for you when you are incapacitated. We also appoint a successor trustee in your Revocable Trust to accomplish this task. Without taking these steps, if you are living and incapacitated to the extent you cannot act on your behalf, your family is then forced to go to Probate Court and have a Conservatorship created for you. This is a costly, untimely and unnecessary situation that can be avoided by taking the proper planning steps.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
  Garik’s practices consumer bankruptcy law, financial counseling, debt management and immigration law. Garik is an aggressive top notch financial crisis management specialist. Garik is also a member of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, American Bar Association, Consumer Bankruptcy Association and the Oakland County Bar Association.
• Foreclosure
  David specializes in the practice of real estate, commercial litigation, property foreclosure and entertainment matters, as well as financial crisis management. He represents numerous financial institutions and developers in foreclosure proceedings and enforcement of their lien and other rights in state, federal and bankruptcy courts.
• Tax Law
  Jack’s area of specialization includes planning and compliance regarding tax qualified pension, profit sharing and 401(k) plans, estate and tax planning, business formation and contract law. He is rated AV preeminent by Lexis Nexis/Martindale Hubbell for the past 25+ years. Jack serves as a key role in the firm by providing ERISA related profit and pension sharing consultation and high level estate planning and tax assistance.
• Debt Collection
  We are experienced in representing clients in the prosecution and defense of civil commercial cases in the state and federal courts. Our attorneys serve as trial counsel in commercial disputes involving contracts, employment law matters, insurance claims, intellectual property, business torts including non-competition, real estate, construction, defamation actions, anti-trust issues and bad debt collection, as well as sales representation cases.