Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP

Landye Bennett Blumstein’s practice includes all aspects of business and entity law. Clients range from Alaska’s largest air carrier to local nonprofit organizations. Our experienced business attorneys cover the following areas:

• Business formation (corporations; limited liability companies; general, limited and limited liability partnerships; and joint ventures)
• Mergers & acquisitions and other commercial business transactions
• Tax-advantaged transactions
• Private equity investments
• Business entity governance and management
• Financing and binding arrangements
• Sale and purchase of equipment and inventory

Landye Bennett Blumstein’s diverse civil litigation practice ranges from addressing routine business disputes to complex multi-party and multi-state court cases. Our litigation practice includes representation of clients in alternative dispute resolution, mediation and arbitration. LBB attorneys handle litigation before state and federal administrative agencies, trial courts and courts of appeal.       

• Contract & Unfair Competition
• Class Action & Derivative Suits
• Real Estate Disputes, Foreclosures, Contract Enforcement, Landlord/Tenant
• Professional Malpractice
• Securities & Shareholder Disputes
• Environmental Litigation
• Natural Resources & Fisheries
• Insurance Disputes, including Actions to Enforce or Defend Coverage
• Municipal Taxes
• Personal Injury Claims and Defense
• Products Liability
• Employment and Labor Claims, including charges by labor departments and other administrative agencies
• Construction Disputes
• Creditor/Debtor matters and Bankruptcy

Landye Bennett Blumstein has in-depth experience in insurance coverage disputes. We have handled hundreds of claims involving coverage under commercial general liability policies, homeowner policies, errors and omissions policies, and other specialized coverages, including surety bonds, construction payment and performance bonds, and industry-specific licensing bonds. Additionally, LBB has served as coverage counsel for various insurance companies.

Landye Bennett Blumstein represents employers in employment, civil rights, wage and hour, and labor matters, including litigation and appeal. Areas of specific practice include:

• Employment contract drafting, enforcement, and separation
• Discrimination claims under state, federal, and local laws
• Layoff planning and wrongful discharge defense
• Wage and hour, state and federal prevailing wage laws
• Public employee contract disputes
• Employee grievances
• Charges filed before civil rights commissions
• Training in legal compliance, workforce management, and employee/executive investigations
• Policy adoption and updating

In addition to our management practice, we represent employees, executives and public labor organizations on a variety of employment, labor and litigation matters, including labor arbitration, executive contract negotiation, unfair labor practices and bargaining issues.

Landye Bennett Blumstein provides a wide range of services for clients on real estate-related matters including:

• Buying, selling, financing, and leasing property
• Real estate development including land use and other entitlements
• Development of residential, commercial and mixed-use condominiums
• Residential, commercial, and industrial planned unit developments and other projects
• Tax-deferred exchanges
• Title insurance
• Boundary disputes
• Environmental due diligence
• Construction contracts