Expert Business Law Solutions

The legal professionals you select as part of your development, leasing or financing team are crucial to the success of your real estate project. Let the knowledge and experience of the attorneys at Klein Law Group help you achieve your goals. We represent buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, and particularly real estate professionals such as brokers and developers in the full range of real estate transactions:

• Broker liability
• Boundary and easement disputes
• Residential and commercial contract disputes
• Lease drafting, interpretation and enforcement
•  CCR and HOA issues
•  Buyer-Seller Disputes

Klein Law Group provides good judgment and practical solutions for today's challenges.

Is your business ready for the next step forward? As today’s marketplace extends into the far-reaching corners of the world, the impact on businesses, large and small, has become more complex.  We provide the road maps and the relationships.

• We work with foreign investors in making a smooth transition to conducting business in California and the U.S. 
• We assist businesses in structuring international transactions to minimize risk.

We Help Foreign Businesses Establish Local Presence.

Our goal is to manage risk and identify opportunities for long-term success. Our experienced and culturally diverse team of lawyers and legal professionals offers strategic vision based on a comprehensive evaluation of your business, enabling you to do what you do most effectively. It is no longer necessary to conduct international business at arms lengths.  Through technology and our multi-cultural personnel, clients will have a local presence to reach customers and navigate legal system.  We help foreign companies do business within the U.S. either directly or through joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and IP licensing. 

Contact us  to learn how we can help you make a successful transition into your next milestone or for a review of your plans.

Our goal is to help businesses maintain competitive edges through strategic problem solving and minimizing exposure to risk.  We work as a team members with all our clients and offer professional straightforward advice within a business context for the following practice areas.

Business Start-ups

• Business Names and Trademark Protection
• Business Plans and Financing
• Licenses, Permits and Business Regulation
• Commercial Lease Negotiation
• Forming a Business Entity (Avoiding Liability)

Different business forms provide different protections and risks to business owners/investors.  Personal liability means that you can be held responsible for business debts.  Personal property, including personal residences, can be at risk to satisfy business debts. We help to minimize risk that could threatened the economic well-being of you and your family.

We provide new businesses with on-going legal compliance to help maintain their corporation status that include holding annual shareholder, director and partner meetings, recording minutes and election of officers as well as providing practical tips to maintain corporate housekeeping.

Our services include: goal assessment, formulating business strategies, ongoing legal advice and guidance and in multiple languages and updating on legal changes impacting your business.

Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Being a small firm, we can often provide a lower cost solution by practicing cost-effectiveness, Alternate Dispute Resolution and negotiation at all levels of litigation. However, we litigate all cases aggressively to obtain the best possible results.

Contract  Review and Drafting

We believe the best contracts are simple, easy to read, understandable and evolve with businesses as they grow.  As there is no business model that would work for all businesses.  There is no model contract for all businesses. By working closely together and getting to know your business we can provide practical solutions that are tailored to your business needs.

Examples of contracts we provide: 

• Business buy-sell agreements
• Shareholder agreements
• Partnerships agreements
• Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)
• Employment contracts
• Physician contracts
• Stock option agreements
• Settlement agreements
• Commission agreements
• Vendor-supplier agreements
• Private placement memos
• Letters of intent
• Promissory notes
• Powers of attorney
• Software license agreements
• Guaranties
• Third beneficiary agreements
• Loan agreements

Whether you are a large or small business, commercial disputes can be complex, costly and time consuming.  Some disputes require an immediate battle in court, while others can be handled through creative strategic resolutions or proactive business counseling. 

At Klein Law Group ("KLG"), we provide both creative and proactive strategies designed to protect the interests of your business. If negotiations fail and the risk of litigation is unavoidable, attorneys at KLG are well-skilled to represent you in mediation or arbitration, and if necessary,  to take your case to trial.

KLG has over twenty years of experience handling a wide variety of business disputes for individuals, small companies and large international manufactures.   Some examples of the commercial disputes that we have handled include:

• Breach of Contract
• Breach of Fiduciary Duty
• Partnership and Shareholder Disputes
• Intellectual Property Disputes
• Construction Disputes

For more information or if you would like to schedule an appointment with one of our business lawyers, contact our office.

Licensing: 

Licensing can provide a steady stream of revenue stream for companies who have established a successful business practices. Licensing comes in many forms and can be tailor made for both licensors and licensees.

Licensing can be:  exclusive, co-exclusive or non-exclusive, irrevocable or revocable, perpetual or transferable.

Trade Marks:

Trade marks (Assistance to clients in development and implementation of branding strategies and enforcement Trademark search reports, analyses, and opinions with regard to registrability and use issues. Trademark search reports, analyses, and opinions with regard to validity and infringement issues. Preparation and filing of trademark applications, assignment and licensing transactions for trademark properties

There is no reason ever to tolerate sexual harassment or hostile work environment. It is damaging and unacceptable. It can make it intolerable for an employee to be at work, deal with coworkers or have professional and respectful relationship with supervisors. We encourage employees to report sexual harassment and, even necessary, to sue their employer for maintaining a sexually hostile work environment. 

What is sexual harassment?

Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination. Sex discrimination in the workplace, including sexual harassment, is prohibited by both federal and California law.

Types of Sexual Harassment

According to California and federal sexual harassment laws, there are two types of sexual harassment exist:

Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment. Hostile work environment takes place when unwelcome verbal, physical, or visual conduct of a sexual nature unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.

Quid Pro Quo Harassment. Also, sexual harassment may take the form of an economic quid pro quo where an employee's subjection to sexual conduct is linked to the grant or denial of job benefits, such as getting or retaining a job, or receiving a favorable performance review or promotion. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal agency charged with promulgating regulations with respect to Title VII, defines quid pro quo harassment as existing when:

• Submission to [the conduct complained of] is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual’s employment; or

• Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for

employment decisions affecting such individual.

Therefore, the essence of the quid pro quo theory of sexual harassment is that “a supervisor relies upon his apparent or actual authority to extort sexual consideration from an employee.” The typical quid pro quo case involves some form of sexual advance or proposition by a supervisor with an express or implied threat that if the employee refuses, he or she will be terminated or demoted, or lose other job-related benefits. Alternatively, the employee may be promised better treatment, such as a promotion, transfer, raise or favorable recommendation, if the employee submits to the sexual advances.

If inappropriate sexual conduct is affecting you in any way, you should always express your discontent and reject that behavior. If you are considering initiating a sexual harassment lawsuit, speak to a sexual harassment lawyer from our law firm. We will be happy to advise you on all aspects of your situation, from documenting the facts of the case to recovering the full extent of your damages.