Areas of Practice
Accidents & Personal Injury
Attorney Lafferty has extensive experience in representing clients in motor vehicle accidents, and in other negligence matters. Such representation will include detailed review of the facts, injuries and medical information, negotiations with insurance companies, and aggressive litigation whenever suit is necessary. Such cases are taken on a contingency fee basis, so legal fees are only incurred when recovery is successful.
Collections
Attorney Lafferty has actively pursued creditors’ rights on behalf of his clients. He has successfully represented banks, credit unions, savings and loans, and businesses for 33 years, including representation in assorted financial recovery matters. This includes foreclosures. He serves as Special Counsel to the Ohio Attorney General, pursuing revenue recovery and collections enforcement for state departments.
Estates – Guardianships – Probate – Elder Law
Lafferty Law Office performs estate and trust planning and administration for clients, and has a practice concentration in this field. Attorney Lafferty continually works with aging clients and families with elderly members to find the best routes for financial and healthcare management, including asset preservation. Attorney Lafferty is frequently retained for “troubled probate matters”, where questions or issues have arisen over the administration of financial affairs of an elderly or disabled person, pursuing the recovery of previously misappropriated assets and issues of financial exploitation. He frequently litigates matters for clients in the Probate Court. Attorney Lafferty is a strong advocate for protection of the elderly and disabled, and frequently speaks at seminars and educational gatherings on this field of practice.
Business – Real Estate
Attorney Lafferty advises businesses, drafts and files documents to create assorted business organizations such as corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships. He advises businesses in their formation, ongoing business procedures and transactions, and in their dissolution and liquidation.
Attorney Lafferty represents clients in commercial real estate transactions, negotiating the deal, drafting the documents, executing the transaction and resolving related issues and disputes. He represents individuals in residential real estate transactions and with the agreements, documents, and closing.
Litigation
Lafferty Law Office uses every appropriate effort and process to resolve legal matters for clients in the best, most effective and cost contained manner. But for those matters that will not resolve through good faith discussion and negotiation and require court proceedings, we litigate, and though we do it aggressively, we respect the human beings, families and businesses involved and do our best to be considerate, fair and reasonable in the process, all while pursing the best interest of the clients.
