Legal Services
Rigby Slack Lawrence Berger Akinc Pepper + Comerford PLLC
Commercial Real Estate
We will work with you to meet the specific objectives of your transaction, including the acquisition, disposition, construction, development, financing, leasing and management of all property types.
- Student Housing
- Multifamily
- Office
- Retail
- Restaurant
- Mixed-Use
- Industrial
- Hospitality
- Farm and Ranch
- Residential Communities
- Golf Courses and Resorts
- Medical
We have significant experience in transactions involving ground leases, condominium regimes and tenants in common structures, as well as private offerings for commercial real estate developments. If you need assistance with the preparation of loan documents, we work with private and institutional lenders in real estate as well as other asset-backed loans.
Title Insurance
Our skilled Escrow Officers, Cathleen Slack and Michelle Perales, will help you close your real estate transactions. Cathleen and Michelle work through Heritage Title Company of Austin, Inc., Stewart Title of Austin, LLC, Texas American Title Company (d/b/a/ Independence Title Company), Prominent Title Company, and Texas National Title.
Business Transactions
Complex Commercial Litigation
We represent clients in the most important commercial litigation matters, whether in Texas state or federal courts or throughout the United States. As skilled trial lawyers, we regularly try cases to verdict. Using creative problem solving, we will assist you in commercial disputes outside of court when it makes the most sense to seek resolution. We represent clients as plaintiffs and defendants, intentionally striving to remain broad and flexible to serve you best. Our areas of focus involve matters including:
- Real estate disputes
- Contract disputes
- Partnership disputes
- Business torts
- Construction disputes
- Securities disputes
- Intellectual property disputes
- Employment disputes
- Environmental litigation
Product Liability Litigation
We defend clients in complex product liability and property damage cases as well as areas of personal injury including toxic tort and general personal injury. Representing clients throughout the Northeast and Texas in both state and federal courts, our clients include commercial airlines, international and domestic insurers, consumer, industrial and military product manufacturers, and national retailers.
Our litigation team will also assist your company in risk management and exposure analysis regarding your products, services, and insurance coverage.
Environmental & Regulatory
We have experience representing Texas’s mining, construction materials and agriculture industries in all areas of environmental law. We frequently represent clients with TCEQ matters, EPA Region 6 investigations and state court Solid Waste Disposal Act lawsuits.
We have the capability to respond real-time to industrial accidents, fires, spills or other major emissions events. We represent private real estate developers and entrepreneurs in Brownfield redevelopment investments.
Estate Planning
Our experienced trust and estate attorneys provide comprehensive advice to our clients in the areas of estate planning, probate, and trust administration. We work with individuals and families to structure and implement customized estate plans, including wills, trusts, and related documents, while minimizing potential tax liability. We also represent fiduciaries and beneficiaries in probate and estate matters, including estate administration and preparation of estate tax returns.
We advise trustees and beneficiaries as to their rights and responsibilities, the modification of existing trust instruments, related trust matters, and preparation of gift tax returns. Our attorneys have experience serving as expert witnesses or consultants in estate and trust matters.
- Estate administration
- Estate planning
- Expert witness needs
- Probate administration
- Trust administration
Family Law
Our family law lawyers are experienced trial lawyers who are committed to providing excellent legal representation with compassion and understanding to our clients in divorce, contested custody, and complex property division and valuation matters. It is our goal to amicably resolve family law matters expeditiously with minimum conflict and expense. However, when amicable resolution is not possible, we vigorously represent our clients in court and will take cases to trial when necessary.
Many family law matters involve complex business and real estate issues. Working together with our real estate, business transactions, estate and commercial litigation attorneys, we are able to handle the full-range of legal issues that clients may face in family law matters.