
What gives you the confidence of knowing that the lawyer you choose has what it takes to meet the challenges in your most important business, personal, and financial matters?
The lawyers who’ve chosen to practice at Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP are here for a reason: they’re talented. They might specialize in real estate, business, tax, plaintiffs’ cases, litigation, or Native American law. But the uniting principle is that they’re the go-to attorneys in their fields of expertise here in Alaska.
That’s what you should look for in a law firm.
Practice areas
Business
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
Civil & Human Rights
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
Elder Law
Landye Bennett Blumstein’s team of experienced lawyers helps clients plan around their individual and unique needs. We assist clients with transferring assets between generations while minimizing taxes. Throughout the estate planning process, we help clients plan for their families’ future based on their individual objectives and priorities.
We counsel clients on:
- Estate planning
- Multistate estate planning
- Sophisticated estate, gift, and income tax planning
- Preparing wills
- Preparing revocable and irrevocable trusts
- Preparing durable powers of attorney, health care powers of attorney, and advance directives
- Charitable giving, family foundations, and philanthropic planning
- Business succession planning
- Probate and trust administration
- Estate and trust litigation
We focus on establishing long-term relationships with our clients. Those relationships allow us to assist families with transferring assets between generations while maintaining family harmony and minimizing future tax burdens. Because we understand our clients’ needs and priorities, we can present estate planning options narrowly tailored to each family’s unique situation.
Our attorneys have advanced degrees in tax planning from the top tax program in the world. Our attorneys’ deep tax knowledge allows us to help clients navigate federal and state tax labyrinths. And our attorneys frequently speak and provide training seminars to other attorneys and professionals on taxable estate planning, probate and trust administration, and charitable giving.
Insurance
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.
Employment & Labor
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.
Real Estate
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
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