The Fortune Law Group has comprehensive experience and expertise in a variety of industries and legal specialties.  The firm’s practice focuses on providing services in five key areas: litigation, business and real estate transactions, franchise law and homeowners’ association law.

LITIGATION

Ms. Fortune manages the firm’s business litigation practice by focusing on protecting and preserving our client's interests through communication and client involvement. The Fortune Law Group represents the individual and the corporation in local, state, and national forums. We help our clients to identify critical issues in the dispute and to quantify litigation decisions in terms of risk and cost containment. We guide our clients throughout the adversarial process.

If litigation becomes necessary, Ms. Fortune and her staff draw on extensive courtroom experience in state, federal and appellate courts throughout the country. Our clients come to us for direction in a myriad of matters ranging from real estate disclosure disputes, land use and zoning issues to protection of intellectual property rights, complex franchise disputes and corporate shareholder representation.

BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

The experienced staff at The Fortune Law Group work closely with a broad spectrum of business clients to help them achieve their financial objectives. We are able to assist your company maximize its competitive advantages and avoid potential legal problems through judicious planning and the skillful drafting of contracts, lease agreements, and other business documents.  This includes planning for the start-up and financing of new ventures, helping existing companies obtain equity and debt financing and negotiating the acquisition and sale of businesses. In addition, we manage and evaluate risks, expedite deals, negotiate contracts, and attempt to avoid “legal landmines” along the way.

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

Ms. Fortune also offers clients cost-effective representation for residential and commercial real estate transactions of all types and levels of complexity.  We provide value-added services for commercial real estate owners, investors and developers. The transactional services we offer range from representing buyers and sellers in commercial property acquisitions and dispositions to structuring complex, large scale, commercial development and construction projects.  Regardless of the size or complexity of the case, our attorneys provide an energetic but common sense approach to today's intricate real estate transactions.

FRANCHISE LAW

Our wide range of franchise services brings clients to us for a variety of reasons.  Some own dealerships or franchises that the supplier or franchisor is attempting to terminate or refuse to renew.  Others are threatened by the franchisor’s or supplier’s change in policy, a merger or acquisition, cannibalization of existing units, refusal to permit expansion or other unfair practices.  Some clients tell us they have been defrauded, or not told the complete truth about their franchise purchase.  Others feel that the franchisor is not fulfilling its contractual duties.  Some of our clients are just thinking about buying a franchise.

Oftentimes, franchisees come to us in groups because they feel that they have all been wronged.  We can also point you in the right direction to form a franchise association.

If any of the highlighted terms applies to you, click on them to learn more.  The Fortune Law Group has experience with all of these types of issues.  Furthermore, the range of potential problems is as unlimited as the imagination, so if your problem with your franchisor or supplier is something else, be sure to contact us.

HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATION

The Fortune Law Group assists homeowners’ associations with every facet of representation including, but not limited to the following:  creation, revision, interpretation and enforcement of the association’s governing documents, drafting and reviewing contracts with third-party vendors, providing opinion letters on matters of interest to the Association, collection of assessments, Board consultation, and litigation services in the fields of construction defect, breach of contact(s), homeowner disputes, etc.   And, because it is our absolute belief that, “It’s always cheaper to keep you out of trouble than it is to get you out of trouble,” we place particular importance upon making ourselves available to your board of directors whether by telephone, e-mail or via a physical appearance at the Board’s executive session.  With this in mind and, unlike virtually any other HOA firm, our Engagement Agreement does not require any up-front payment and you are only billed for time actually spent on your behalf.