Business Law

Our Business Law practice provides the legal services necessary for the formation, financing, operation, and maintenance of your business. We provide professional advice and counsel to sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures, and corporations. As business professionals understand, business challenges cover a wide array of disciplines. Consequently, the Firm has evolved naturally into the following areas:

General Business Law

The Firm is equipped to handle our corporate clients' day to day concerns. This includes preparing corporate documents, negotiating contracts, and employing and managing special expert counsel. Today's corporate climate demands that business executives receive legal service which protects the company's rights and its bottom line. We strive to provide this service without delay or excuses.

Environmental Law

In recent years, concern for the environment has heightened interest in finding practical and economical methods to protect and preserve our natural resources. This in turn, has led to the enactment of increasingly complex and far reaching environmental statutes and regulations.

Miller, Earle & Shanks offers experience in practical, technical, and legal aspects of complying with the myriad of federal and state laws and regulatory programs relating to the quality of our air, land, and water resources.
Whether the task be commenting on the findings made in an environmental impact statement, obtaining an air or water quality certificate through the state or federal permitting process or providing guidance on the Clean Air Act, our attorneys stand ready to provide clients with thorough, accurate and timely advice on all of their environmental concerns.

Technology and Internet Law

Miller, Earle & Shanks is able to provide an experienced attorney who understands the needs of the entrepreneur who invents the new product or business product. The clients' business goals and structures are based on new legal concepts and practices that surround technology and bringing it to market. This background and experience includes assisting clients with angel, mezzanine, venture, and initial public offerings (IPO's) financing support.

Miller, Earle & Shanks further understands that the dynamics of the business community have significantly changed since the World Wide Web provides immediate access to a broader customer and business base than ever before possible. Many businesses have been formed or expanded to target this market. In marketing its legal support, Miller, Earle & Shanks is aware of and prepared to deal with the changes required in the law relative to internet contracts, corporate formation, practices, requirements and consumer protection, including privacy and local language requirements and protection of databases and other information on Web sites