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by Fred Abramson

Your privacy

The Law Office of Fred­eric R. Abram­son is com­mit­ted to pro­tect­ing your pri­vacy. This Pri­vacy Pol­icy dis­closes how we col­lect, pro­tect, use, and share infor­ma­tion gath­ered about you on our website.

Col­lec­tion and use of information

Per­sonal infor­ma­tion. You can use our web­site with­out divulging any per­sonal infor­ma­tion. We col­lect per­sonal infor­ma­tion about you if you com­plete forms on our web­site. We use this infor­ma­tion to process your request and we may also use it to keep you informed about other pub­li­ca­tions, events and ser­vices of Fred­eric R. Abram­son that we believe may be of inter­est to you. We may include the infor­ma­tion you pro­vide to our data­bases, sub­scriber lists, and/or con­tact lists. We main­tain this infor­ma­tion in our firm’s password-protected con­tacts database.

Through the web­site, you also are able to send emails to firm per­son­nel regard­ing employ­ment or other mat­ters. Such emails con­tain your email address and such other per­sonal infor­ma­tion as you may pro­vide. We retain this infor­ma­tion, which we may use to respond to your inquiry.

We do not sell or oth­er­wise dis­close to third par­ties any per­sonal infor­ma­tion that you pro­vide through this web­site except as may be required by law or in response to an inves­ti­ga­tion by law enforce­ment or other gov­ern­ment author­i­ties.
Per­sonal infor­ma­tion that you send to Fred­eric R. Abram­son through this web­site is sent to our server, which is presently located in the United States. We may trans­fer such per­sonal infor­ma­tion to any office of Fred­eric R. Abram­son. Any email you send through the web­site to any per­son­nel of the firm may be routed through the United States to your addressee,

Non-Personal and Aggre­gated Infor­ma­tion. We log cer­tain non-personal infor­ma­tion, such as your IP address and browser type, the name of the web­site from which you entered our web­site, which pages you visit on our web­site, and how much time you spend on each page. We use this infor­ma­tion to mon­i­tor use of and improve our web­site. We use IP addresses to ana­lyze trends, admin­is­ter the web­site, and gather infor­ma­tion for aggre­gate use.

Updates to your information

You may request details of the infor­ma­tion we hold about you, and change or delete any of that infor­ma­tion, by send­ing an email to fabramson@abramsonlegal.com. You may also send us an email to unsub­scribe or to opt out of receiv­ing any infor­ma­tion from us.

Reor­ga­ni­za­tion of business

If we reor­ga­nize or trans­fer our busi­ness, we may trans­fer your per­sonal infor­ma­tion to the reor­ga­nized or new business.

Updates to this policy

We may change this pri­vacy pol­icy from time to time by updat­ing this page. By using our web­site or send­ing us any per­sonal infor­ma­tion after the indi­cated effec­tive date, you sig­nify your agree­ment with this pol­icy and you will be deemed to be bound to the pol­icy in effect as of the date of such use.

Con­sent

By pro­vid­ing per­sonal infor­ma­tion to us through our web­site, you con­sent to our use of it as set out in this pri­vacy policy.

Con­tact Information

You may con­tact us with any ques­tions in con­nec­tion with this pri­vacy pol­icy by send­ing an email to fabramson@abramsonlegal.com

Thank you again for turn­ing to the Law Office of Fred­eric R. Abram­son for your legal ser­vice needs.

Estate Planning

by Fred Abramson

Estate PlanningYou under­stand that you need an estate plan. But like many of your friends, you\‘ve been pro­cras­ti­nat­ing because estate plan­ning is unpleas­ant to think about. I am here to help. I will tell you every­thing that you need to con­sider when set­ting up your estate.  I will pre­pare all of your estate doc­u­ments for you,  which include at least a will, health care proxy, liv­ing trust and a durable power of attor­ney.  The sooner you get your estate plan com­pleted, the quicker you will feel cer­tain that the peo­ple who you love will be pro­vided for.

Estate plan­ning is sim­ply the process of dis­pos­ing all of your assets after you die.  Who needs to think about it?

Once you begin your estate plan­ning, you will understand:

  • Why you need a will;
  • The advan­tages of hav­ing a liv­ing trust;
  • The pro­bate process and why you want to steer clear of it;
  • How to pro­tect and pro­vide for your children;
  • Why you prob­a­bly don\‘t have to worry about estate taxes;
  • Why you need a retire­ment plan.

Estate plan­ning is a great thing to do for your fam­ily.  Con­grat­u­la­tions on even think­ing about it.

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Estate Planning

Make Me Your Lawyer

by Fred Abramson

If you live or have a busi­ness in New York State, then I may be able to help you.  You sim­ply need to make an appoint­ment to see me.

The first con­sul­ta­tion is free because we need to find out whether I can help you.

Where I work:

My office is located at 160 Broadway, Suite 500, New York, New York in the Wall Street area in Down­town Manhattan. 

Bring All Of Your Documents

This may seem obvi­ous, but col­lect­ing all of your doc­u­ments is extremely impor­tant.  I under­stand that this could be time con­sum­ing, but the more infor­ma­tion that I have, the more that I will be able to help you.

Make Your Appointment

Mak­ing an appoint­ment with my law firm is very sim­ple. Sim­ply fill out the form below, via  email fabramson@abramsonlegal.com or call my office at 212–233-0666 and speak to Hazel.  That’s it!

Make Me Your Lawyer

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Small Busi­ness Gen­eral Coun­sel Plan

by Fred Abramson

Are you sur­prised by all the paper­work and details involved in get­ting a new small busi­ness up and run­ning? It’s incred­i­ble, isn’t it?  There are many deci­sions you have to make, expenses that never stop, and every time you think you’ve got a han­dle on things, some­thing else pops up.

I’ve got news for you: It doesn’t get any eas­ier.  If you are a vet­eran busi­ness owner you know that there will be more paper­work, more details, more decisions.

But guess what? It’s worth it! I under­stand how excited you are about your busi­ness and you want to do every­thing for your busi­ness to succeed.

Your busi­ness can suc­ceed, you know.  I’ve observed many start-up com­pa­nies suc­ceed.  But only sometimes.

But, I have observed many busi­nesses go bank­rupt. Some within one month.

Even though they worked hard and had the best of inten­tions, many busi­ness own­ers lose every­thing.  It’s ugly: tremen­dous debts, dreams and aspi­ra­tions dashed. Many have to return back to work for the job they hate so that they can pay off their debts.

What makes the dif­fer­ence?  Why do some busi­ness own­ers amass great wealth while oth­ers fail miserably?

As a lawyer, I am prob­a­bly not the one to tell you how to build a suc­cess­ful com­pany.  But as a busi­ness attor­ney who rep­re­sents peo­ple like you, I can tell you exactly how to make your business fail.

LITIGATION. Get­ting sued. Many busi­ness own­ers go out of busi­ness because of  a large judg­ment against them that they can­not pay.  Or, they spend so much on legal fees, it wipes them out.

Want to know some­thing else?  It’s amaz­ing, but in many cases these own­ers could have avoided the law­suit com­pletely, or pro­tected them­selves from per­sonal lia­bil­ity.  They could have survived!

All they had to do was get some legal advice. In advance.

Before they signed a lease or con­tract.  Before they took on a part­ner or hired an employee.  Before they made busi­ness deci­sions involv­ing seri­ous legal consequences.

Ten min­utes of legal advice may have pre­vented all that fail­ure, bank­ruptcy, mis­ery, and shame

But they don’t get that advice, do they?  And we both know why.

The cost.

On top of all the other expenses of start­ing and run­ning a new busi­ness, there never seems to be enough left for legal fees.  After all, legal advice is expensive, right?

Not any­more.

The Law Office of Fred­eric R. Abram­son offers fee struc­tures that is more than billable hours.

There is a way for you to have the legal advice you need at a cost so low you would be a fool to turn it down.

Here is what it’s all about:

My firm has just intro­duced what I call the “Small Busi­ness Gen­eral Coun­sel Plan.”  For a monthly retainer of only $400, you get up to two hours of free tele­phone con­sul­ta­tions and attor­ney legal doc­u­ment review every month.

You can ask all the ques­tions you want and get the money-saving, headache-avoiding answers you need. You can have me review and com­ment on con­tracts, leases, let­ters, forms and any­thing else you use in your busi­ness.  You’ll know what’s legal, what’s fair, and what’s not.  No sur­prises. No more doubts.

Do you real­ize what that means? It means you can sleep like a baby at night know­ing that your attor­ney is “on call.”  It means that you can get the answers that you need, when you need them, so you can quickly get back to run­ning your business.

It means never hav­ing to “blindly” sign any­thing that could cost you thou­sands of dol­lars more than you should have paid because you didn’t have time to read the “fine print.”  It means never hav­ing to make uni­formed deci­sions that could get you sued for hun­dreds of thou­sands in damages.

It means incred­i­ble piece of mind for you and your family.

That alone must be worth more than $400 a month to you, yet that’s all it costs.

Call me at 212–233‑0666 to get started today or ask me any ques­tions about how the plan could help you achieve your goals.

I look  for­ward speak­ing with you.

Fees

by Fred Abramson

Retain­ing my office as your legal coun­sel is easy. Sim­ply con­tact my office for a free con­sul­ta­tion.  Feel free to meet me at my office located in the Wall Street area of Man­hat­tan to dis­cuss your legal matter.

Ini­tial Con­sul­ta­tion: Free

Hourly Rate: $250

Civil Lit­i­ga­tion: $250 per hour.  Min­i­mum retainer:  $3,500

Sam­ple Busi­ness Ser­vices – Flat fees:

Under a flat-fee arrange­ment, I rep­re­sent you for a sin­gle fee, billed up front. You pay the court fees and out-of-pocket costs related to your case.

  • Small Busi­ness Gen­eral Coun­sel Plan: $450 per month
  • Non-Disclosure/Confidentiality Agree­ments: start­ing at $750
  • Lawyer let­ter (includes 2 hours of legal ser­vices): $500
  • Employ­ment Agree­ment: start­ing at $699
  • Busi­ness sale: start­ing at $3,000
  • Cus­tom con­tract draft­ing and review:  start­ing at $1,000
  • Sin­gle mem­ber LLC’s: start­ing at $499 plus state and gov­ern­ment fil­ing fees
  • Share­holder and Oper­at­ing Agree­ments: start­ing at $1,499
  • Com­mer­cial lease review and nego­ti­a­tion: start­ing at $799
  • Inde­pen­dent Con­trac­tor Agree­ment: start­ing at $999

I try to give a flat-fee esti­mate in all cases, not just those listed above. How­ever, in some cases it is dif­fi­cult or impos­si­ble to esti­mate the amount of work or costs involved. In those cases, an hourly-fee arrange­ment is usu­ally a bet­ter fit.

Contingent-fee arrange­ment

I take cases on full con­tin­gency in cases where the defen­dant must pay my attor­ney fees. I can only take a case on con­tin­gency if you will be suing some­one else. If I agree to take your case on con­tin­gency, you will not pay me any­thing unless I recover money for you.

I can only accept a very nar­row cat­e­gory of cases on con­tin­gency. Even though the defen­dant must pay my attor­ney fees, every case involves a sig­nif­i­cant invest­ment of my time and money, so I am highly selective.

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Immigration

by Fred Abramson

Immigration
Image by J. Stephen Conn via Flickr

Immi­gra­tion reform is in the news every­day. It is impor­tant to act now and con­sult with an attor­ney to guide you through the com­plex process of immi­gra­tion law.

As your per­sonal advi­sor, I will lead you and/or your com­pany through the maze of immi­gra­tion laws, pro­vid­ing com­mon sense solu­tions for aliens who want to work or immi­grate into the United States.   I have helped an array of dif­fer­ent com­pa­nies, such as those in the I.T. and import/export indus­tries obtain employ­ment visas for work­ers such as pro­gram­mers and mar­ket­ing spe­cial­ists. I have also suc­cess­fully obtained per­ma­nent res­i­dency and cit­i­zen­ship for indi­vid­u­als and their fam­i­lies from all over the world.

Immi­gra­tion sta­tus is usu­ally a mat­ter where time is of the essence.  Unfor­tu­nately, USCIS  is a gov­ern­men­tal agency with a back­log of hun­dreds of thou­sands of appli­ca­tions.  I will pro­vide a per­sonal road map with you and/or your com­pany so that your case will be resolved in the fastest pos­si­ble manner.

My immi­gra­tion prac­tice includes rep­re­sen­ta­tion for business/employment immi­gra­tion, family-based immi­gra­tion and depor­ta­tion. I pro­vide con­fi­den­tial advice relat­ing to immi­gra­tion and nat­u­ral­iza­tion, employ­ment, visas, cit­i­zen­ship, asy­lum and deportation.

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Immigration

New York Business Litigation

by Fred Abramson

Fred­eric R. Abram­son rep­re­sents clients in dis­putes, law­suits and arbi­tra­tions involving:

  • Breach of Contract
  • Breach Of Fidu­ciary Duty
  • Breach Of Implied Covenant Of Good Faith And Fair Dealing
  • Busi­ness Torts
  • Com­mer­cial collections
  • Con­ver­sion
  • Copy­right
  • Cor­po­rate dissolution
  • Fraud
  • Inter­fer­ence With a Contract
  • Inter­fer­ence With Prospec­tive Advantage
  • Neg­li­gent Misrepresentation
  • Oppressed minor­ity share­holder disputes
  • Unjust Enrich­ment
  • Per­sonal Injury

Con­tact the Law Office of Fred­eric R. Abram­son at 212–233-0666.

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Law Blog

by Fred Abramson

New York Business Law and Civil Litigation

by Fred Abramson

In my world, suc­cess is when you fur­ther your  inter­ests. It’s as sim­ple as that.

Since 1997 I have advised small busi­ness own­ers about what they must know  before enter­ing into a con­tract so that they could limit their risk of fac­ing costly civil lit­i­ga­tion and bad press.  As a com­pany lawyer,  I tell busi­nesses own­ers and peo­ple what they should do if they have been sued.

I have suc­cess­fully rep­re­sented a range of New York com­pa­nies, from non-profits to exec­u­tive search firms, along with many peo­ple. I have lec­tured about busi­ness law for many dif­fer­ent groups, includ­ing  con­tin­u­ing legal edu­ca­tion classes for lawyers.

Take the first step. Con­tact me to get your New York Busi­ness Law and Civil Lit­i­ga­tion ques­tions answered by an expe­ri­enced lawyer with a deep under­stand­ing of the prob­lems you’re facing.

When you’re ready to take the next step you can begin the process online. If you’d like to sched­ule a free, no-obligation con­sul­ta­tion in my office you can call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 212–233-0666 or fill out the con­tact form below.

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Business Law

by Fred Abramson

Hir­ing a busi­ness law attor­ney is cru­cial for any suc­cess­ful busi­ness.  As a pas­sion­ate busi­ness owner, I know that your busi­ness is impor­tant.  Your legal needs must be met so that your focus is on grow­ing business.

I pro­vide busi­ness advi­sor and legal ser­vices to entre­pre­neurs, start-up busi­nesses and other enti­ties from plan­ning and for­ma­tion to sale or other dis­po­si­tion of the busi­ness.  I will guide you through the devel­op­ment of your busi­ness plan, choice of entity and any busi­ness struc­tural decision.

Below you will find a par­tial list­ing of my Busi­ness Law Ser­vices. If you don\‘t see a par­tic­u­lar topic listed and you would like more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact my office so I can pro­vide to you the infor­ma­tion you need.

  • Draft and Nego­ti­ate Contracts
  • Buy-Sell Agree­ments
  • Pur­chase and Asset Sales Agreements
  • Employ­ment Agreements
  • Inde­pen­dent Con­trac­tor Agreements
  • Set­tle­ment Agreements
  • Con­struc­tion Contracts
  • Com­mer­cial Leases
  • Cor­po­rate For­ma­tion (Inc, C-Corp, S-Corp, LLC, LLP)
  • Cor­po­rate Min­utes and Record Keeping
  • Real Estate
  • Share­holder Agreements
  • Social Media, E-Commerce & Social Media Law
  • Non-Disclosure Agreements/Confidentiality
  • Trade­marks
  • Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty Agreements
  • Tech­nol­ogy and Ven­ture Licens­ing Agreements

Arti­cles of interest:

Busi­ness Sale:

Con­tracts:

Cor­po­rate Formation:

Social Media Law:

Start-Ups:

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