Attorneys at Law
McGhee & Associates LLC provide a wide range of services to individuals and businesses in a variety of industries. We strive to meet each client's specific needs in planning for the future and achieving their goals in an ever-changing financial and regulatory environment. Our professional services include:
McGhee & Associates LLC has a thriving public finance practice in the State of Florida. Our financings have included general obligation bonds for states, cities and counties and bonds for single and multi-family housing, airports, educational institutions and transportation facilities aggregating over a billion dollars in aggregate principal amount of bonds. We have worked on multiple transactions in Miami-Dade County and Broward County. We have enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with Miami-Dade County for nearly two decades serving as bond counsel and more recently as disclosure counsel. We have served as bond counsel the Florida Housing Corporation throughout the State. Our lawyers have served as bond counsel, special disclosure counsel, and counsel to issuers, underwriters and trustees in transactions throughout the United States.
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Estate planning is the attorney-assisted process that examines your needs and assets and helps you realize your goals. There are two major goals in most estate planning: to keep costs down and to make it as efficient as possible. By utilizing wills and trusts our firm prevents unfortunate probate situations and assists in creating a peaceful enviornment upon the passing of a loved one.
Probate is the judge-supervised process of paying a decedent's legitimate bills, inventorying and appraising a decedent's assets, and distributing the assets to the decedent's heirs or beneficiaries. McGhee & Associates LLC takes pride in allowing our clients to address more personal issues by speedily resolving any lingering questions.
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Personal injuries not only cause physical pain, but also cause emotional and financial hardship through loss of work, medical bills and stress placed upon individuals and families. Whether caused by an automobile accident, a defective product, or other negligent, careless or reckless conduct, injuries alter lives forever. Dealing with insurance companies and their vast resources can be frustrating and intimidating to many individuals. Despite what insurance adjusters may tell you, insurance companies do not represent the interests of the injured party. We will aggressively fight for you to obtain a settlement or trial verdict that fairly reflects all your damages, including medical bills, lost wages, emotional stress, pain and suffering, and other damages.
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You have the right to a safe workplace. When you suffer an injury at work, you have the right to seek workers' compensation benefits. Workplace accidents are as varied as workplaces themselves. Many times, disputes arise of the nature and severity of your workplace injury. Sometimes disputes even arise over whether or not the injury has an impact on your ability to perform your employment duties. These disputes can result in a denial of benefits or receipt of benefits in an insufficient amount. McGhee & Associates LLC is dedicated to helping you secure the benefits you need.
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Often, litigation does not present the most efficient means of resolving a dispute. In this instance, we are prepared to pursue arbitration or alternate means of settlement in order to swiftly and amicably find a solution. Awards are made in writing and are enforceable in court under state and federal statutes. We view arbitration not as a concession, but as a creative and economical medium to achieve awards commiserate to those won in litigation.
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Today's business environment is one of constant change, of rethinking how business is conducted and how businesses can meet the challenges of a global economy. Traditional ways of conducting a business practice provide guidance, but they are only a starting point for creative development of business transactions. Similarly, whether the real estate market is in a 'boom' or 'bust' phase, there is substantial money to be made or lost. The objective of our business and real estate focus is to help our clients minimize risk and maximize opportunity, regardless of the cycle. Our lawyers have many years of experience in structuring purchases and sales of businesses, buy-sell agreements, and other corporate arrangements and real estate transactions.
What makes our business and real estate practice particularly well-suited to our clients' needs is our experience. We are able to act as business counselors in suggesting alternate ways of accomplishing goals, and in assisting our clients to achieve their goals in the optimum way. We can also provide assistance in all forms of business and real estate transactions, including loans and other financial arrangements, joint ventures, and strategic alliances. That is because we are large enough to have attorneys with practical expertise not only in business and real estate acquisitions and finance, but also in the critical allied fields of taxation, estate planning, bankruptcy, and commercial litigation. However, our firm is also small enough that we can communicate effectively with each other to solve our clients' problems. The result? Business and real estate problems are resolved efficiently and in their totality, resulting in significant savings for our clients. An important part of our business group involves planning to minimize state and local taxes such as sales and use tax, corporate net income tax, capital stock/foreign franchise tax, personal income tax, business privilege tax, use and occupancy tax, liabilities and real estate assessment and real estate exemption determinations. We assist business with restructuring activities in order to take advantage of existing tax law provisions. And if a state or local governments asserts that a business owes taxes, we are able to review the taxing authority's determination and, if appropriate, challenge the determination through an administrative appeal or, if necessary, in court. Simply put, we will provide the practical advice you need to make your next business or real estate venture as profitable as possible.
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A business or property owner bears the responsibility to exercise reasonable care in the maintenance of their property, as well as to notify or warn visitors to the property of any hazards that exist and might cause a slip, trip or fall.
A business or property owner is liable for a 'slip and fall' accident when they are negligent in failing to reasonably maintain their property or in properly warning visitors of latent dangers.
Determining liability in a 'slip and fall' accident can be difficult, involving many contributing factors. McGhee & Associates LLC will assure your rights are protected.
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Negotiated settlements of claims arising from medical negligence frequently involve the issue of confidentiality between the parties. In cases where a defendant physician, facility or other health care provider demands a confidentiality provision as part of a settlement agreement, plaintiff's medical malpractice lawyer must consider several factors prior to agreeing to include confidentiality as a material term of a release and settlement agreement.
The first and most obvious consideration is the client's intent and objective in bringing the action in the first place. A client that is dealing with their own, or a family member's loss, as a result of a medical error experiences a wide array of emotions in deciding whether to pursue a claim. A frequently stated motivating factor is the desire to make sure this doesn't happen to someone else. As noble a cause as this may seem, it does not square with the remedies available in most jurisdictions, or the purpose of the civil trial system. The civil litigant is entitled to fair compensation for their injuries, and that remedy is the 'justice' available.
