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Since opening our doors in 1929, Cors & Bassett, LLC has consistently provided the highest quality legal services to our business and individual clients in Ohio, Kentucky, the Midwest region, and across the nation. We are one of the most respected and longest tenured firms in the region. We have purposely remained at a size specifically designed to deliver the depth, breadth, and quality of legal services you’d expect from a large national law firm, but delivered in the personalized, attentive manner you’d expect from a cutting edge boutique law firm. Our attorneys are experienced in a full range of practice areas. For more than 85 years, Cors & Bassett attorneys have provided our clients with proven expertise in a variety of business arenas, including:
For individual clients, we are well-versed in handling all personal legal needs, such as:
Our attorneys and staff are committed to providing responsive, individualized, innovative, creative, and highly effective legal representation to each and every client. Our goal is to be not only our clients’ legal advisor, but also an integral part of their success, whether in business or personal matters.
Cors & Bassett attorneys are exceptional people as well as talented legal professionals. Their integrity, accomplishments, expertise, and compassion shape the firm’s culture and each client’s experience. They take great pride in their profession and work as a team, combining their knowledge and experiences for the benefit of our clients.
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Barb's practice encompasses estate planning and administration, business planning and general tax planning. Barb also has significant experience with income and estate tax controversies at the state and federal level, including work with Internal Revenue Service Examination and Appeals and Tax Court and District Court tax litigation.
Sue practices in the litigation group, primarily in the labor and employment area. She represents both management and employees in all areas of labor and employment law. Her practice also includes general commercial litigation.
Michael advises and represents clients in all areas of business transactions and general corporate law, as well as trademark, copyright, construction, transportation, real estate, and liquor and hospitality law.
Jim is a member of the corporate and real estate groups at Cors & Bassett. He is a licensed title agent and serves as President of Sawyer Point Title, Inc., the firm’s wholly owned title agency. In addition to being an attorney, Jim is a Certified Public Accountant licensed to practice in the state of Ohio.
Lydia joined Cors & Bassett as an associate attorney in July 2018. Her practice focuses on estate and trust planning, administration, and settlement; general civil litigation; personal injury and products liability litigation; and domestic relations matters.
Curtis serves as Vice-President of Cors & Bassett. Curtis practices primarily in the labor/employment area. However, he has a multi-faceted practice so that he can handle his clients’ diverse needs with efficiency and expertise.
Barry has extensive experience in estate taxation, estate planning, trust and probate administration, and real estate matters. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Barry's father, Leslie, was a founding partner of the original firm in 1929.
Frank has rejoined Cors & Bassett as Of Counsel after a hiatus as a partner at Rice & Diedrichs, LLP. He is licensed to practice both in Ohio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. In 1976, he received his J.D. Degree from Salmon P. Chase Law School of Northern Kentucky. In 1967, he received an MBA from the University of Michigan, and received his BA in Economics from U.C. in 1965.
Robert’s practice is focused in the areas of business law and transactions, real estate transactions, estate planning and probate, as well as private and family foundations. Since 2013, besides practicing law, Robert has been the Executive director of Turner Farm, Inc., Turner Farm Preservation Foundation, Inc., and Sonoma Mountain Ranch Preservation Foundation, Inc.
I serve as Vice-President of Cors & Bassett. My focus is on business, primarily small to mid-size companies. I represent the firm’s clients in the sale and purchase of goods, services and businesses; I serve as trial counsel in commercial and general litigation, and I offer guidance and practical knowledge to business owners and managers.
Michael Gay has many years of experience counseling individuals and companies in need of legal assistance and in representing them in general litigation matters, personal injury and products liability claims, domestic relations matters, will contests, and franchise matters.
Jeff has an extensive and respected practice in environmental compliance and environmental litigation and also handles commercial litigation and land use planning and zoning matters. In addition to his legal practice, Jeff has been an adjunct instructor on environmental law at Miami University, Ohio, and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Jack practices in the litigation and labor and employment areas. He represents clients in the areas of general liability defense and product liability litigation, administrative and regulatory proceedings, appellate litigation, and general business and commercial litigation.
Since joining the firm in 1975, Bob has successfully represented clients in complex litigation in federal and state courts and before arbitration panels, particularly in the area of employment law. He has also represented employers in administrative proceedings before such agencies as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Ohio Civil Rights Commission. He has also counseled management clients in collective bargaining, representation elections, and unfair labor practice proceedings.
Steve serves as the President of Cors & Bassett and is a member of its Executive Committee. His practice is generally concentrated in the representation of family- and privately-owned business clients.
Alison is a litigation associate with Cors & Bassett and her practice focuses primarily on Labor & Employment, Construction, Transportation, Workers' Compensation, and Franchising.
Tom is a member of the firm's corporate and litigation groups. He represents business and individual clients in a wide variety of endeavors including manufacturing, real estate development, and financial services. Tom provides advice and counsel on transactions, the purchase and sale of businesses, real estate transactions and valuations, debtor/creditor issues including financial restructuring and Chapter 11 bankruptcy, succession planning, estate planning, and probate administration.
Chris’ practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, general business (with an emphasis on emerging companies), corporate governance, corporate finance, and franchise and distribution law.
Chris is licensed to practice law in both Ohio and Kentucky.
David is a Title Agent for First American Title Insurance Company and Founder of the Clermont County Bar Association Scholarship Fund. He is also a former treasurer and member of the appraisal, executive, and loan committees of a large savings and loan association. David is a Member of the Clermont County and Ohio State Bar Associations and the Ohio Land Title Association.
Dave joined Cors & Bassett as an Associate Attorney in November 2017. His practice focuses on transactional matters, particularly in the areas of general corporate law, business law, real estate, and commercial transactions.
Hans advises and counsels employers, both large and small, in structuring their pension or profit sharing plans, including ESOP’s, so as to maximize their benefit both to the employer and to the employees. Hans also advises employers on possible structures for executive compensation strategies that provide benefits above and beyond what traditional pension or profit sharing plans can provide.
He works with company representatives on issues arising during the administration of retirement and other employee benefit plans, which include representing the company's interests in the event of audits by the Internal Revenue Service or other government agencies. Hans is also involved in numerous issues involving welfare benefit plan issues, including health care reform and HIPAA compliance.
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The Cors & Bassett attorneys represent secured and unsecured lenders in various bankruptcy-related matters. We also have extensive experience with workouts and complex restructurings of businesses. Our work with creditors includes assistance with collections and liquidations.
The C&B attorneys also represent clients in various bankruptcy proceedings in U.S. bankruptcy courts. We have successfully represented clients in defending against preference and other avoidance claims, as well as pursuing client claims through adversary proceedings to determine non-dischargeability. We have also represented financial institutions in defending against various lender liability claims. C&B attorneys regularly provide our business clients with credit management advice, and our experience and expertise helps our clients avoid pitfalls and enhance their relationships with current and prospective customers.
The business attorneys at C&B have the experience and expertise to respond proactively and efficiently regardless of what issues our business clients face. We are equipped to handle legal issues at all stages of a company’s life, including start-up, day-to-day operations, mergers, acquisitions, and sales and transitions to the next generation of executives and owners. Our attorneys work diligently to learn each client’s business in order to offer legal and business advice that uniquely contributes to the growth and productivity of our business clients.
Our services include:
Electronic communication and the world-wide web offer unlimited expansion potential for businesses. The Cors & Bassett e-commerce attorneys are adept at counseling clients on the strategic and legal implications of client e-commerce initiatives. Some of the specific services provided by the C&B e-commerce attorneys include:
C&B e-commerce attorneys have represented a variety of software developers, manufacturers, distributors, telecommunications providers, transportation companies, financial institutions, and other businesses engaged in e-commerce transactions.
Services provided by C&B construction attorneys include:
The complex and sometimes murky laws and regulations governing employee benefit and executive compensation plans require precise drafting, technical know-how, and a future-oriented approach. The Cors & Bassett employee benefit attorneys possess all of these traits. Knowing the law is not enough – it must be coupled with an understanding of our clients’ businesses and how the application of the law serves those businesses and employee benefit plans. Services provided by C&B employee benefit attorneys include:
Employment Practices
The Cors & Bassett environmental attorneys develop viable business solutions and resolve disputes for clients facing a complex myriad of environmental regulations. Services provided by our environmental attorneys include:
The C&B attorneys in our franchising practice group represent both franchisees and franchisors as well as dealers, distributors, and manufacturers involved in dealership networks. C&B attorneys draw on their extensive experience to help clients on either side of the franchise or dealership relationship navigate all aspects of what is often a complex and difficult relationship, including the drafting, review, and negotiation of franchise disclosure documents and franchise agreements, dealership and distributorship agreements, assistance with related trademark issues, and expertise regarding the complex web of state franchising, dealership, and distribution law.
C&B attorneys represent several locally-based franchisors and handle all aspects of compliance with Federal and state franchise law as well as those franchisors’ relationships with their respective franchisees and developers. We also represent franchisees of all sizes – from multi-unit franchisees with territories covering multiple states to single-unit start-ups-with respect to the review of franchise disclosure documents and the negotiation of franchise and related agreements.
C&B attorneys also represent several local automobile dealers in their relationships with both manufacturers and consumers. These services include:
C&B attorneys also represent one of the country’s largest trailer manufacturers and assist that manufacturer with:
Our attorneys also assist manufacturers with trademark issues and financing issues.
Cors & Bassett intellectual property attorneys represent individuals, start-ups, small businesses, and large corporations in all areas of intellectual property law except patents. We assist our clients in protecting their trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, and we work with them in defending their intellectual property against infringements or other unauthorized use. Our intellectual property attorneys search and clear copyrights and trademarks, ensuring our clients receive the greatest available legal protection for their brands, trade secrets, creative output and company goodwill. We also draft and review license agreements and guide our clients in interpreting or enforcing licenses.
Our attorneys are experienced in guiding clients through all steps of trademark registration, including clearance, prosecution, opposition/cancellation proceedings, maintenance, counseling, acquisitions, licensing, and litigation. While our goal is to help our clients obtain and maintain a trademark to protect their products, services and business, we are also experienced in prosecuting and defending infringement matters.
Our attorneys also guide our clients in protecting their creative works such as art, music, literature and computer programs. We search and register copyrights and advise our clients about copyright protection and infringement.
We are also experienced in drafting and negotiating software licenses, whether our clients are the software owners or the software users.
Our intellectual property attorneys advise clients in all industries about how to develop, establish, market, and protect their brands and ideas. With more than 75 years of experience, Cors & Bassett attorneys are uniquely qualified to advise clients in of all areas of intellectual property law, including:
Cors & Bassett’s international law attorneys represent clients in a variety of international transactions. Services offered by our international law attorneys include:
Import/Export
Today, employers must operate in a highly regulated and litigious business climate. C&B prides itself on helping employers minimize the legal risks involved in making employment decisions without compromising business needs. Our employment law attorneys develop strong relationships with our clients' Human Resource professionals, so that assistance with any employment law issue is only a telephone call or email away. Because of the depth of C&B's labor and employment team, we are able to provide assistance on even the most urgent of matters.
Services offered by our labor and employment attorneys include:
C&B also has decades of experience in litigating employment issues, including: wrongful discharge cases and discrimination cases; breaches of employment, non-competition, and non-disclosure agreements; defending unemployment benefits and workers' compensation claims; and representing employers before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and other federal and state agencies.
The firm also has a long, rich history of assisting clients with traditional labor law issues, a rare find in the Greater Cincinnati legal community. Our labor and employment attorneys have assisted countless clients in the following:
The firm also advises and assists clients in the planning, development, and implementation of both defined benefit and defined contribution plans. Our experienced attorneys:
The Cors & Bassett liquor and hospitality attorneys represent restaurants, bars, and other hospitality businesses. Services provided by C&B liquor and hospitality attorneys include:
Franchising
Cors & Basset has extensive experience in the manufacturer – dealer/reseller model of product distribution, including assisting our clients in all of the following areas:
Cors & Bassett offers a full range of services for commercial and residential real estate transactions. Services offered to our real estate clients include:
In addition, through Cors & Bassett’s in-house title agency, Sawyer Point Title, Inc., the firm provides title examinations and title opinions, and offers mortgage and owners' title insurance.
Financing of Real Estate
C&B attorneys have deep experience in advising clients in a wide variety of fundraising transactions, including both the borrowing of funds through debt transactions and the raising of funds through the private offering of securities.
We represent several local banks with respect to their business lending practices and are experienced in the securitization of all types of business assets, including real estate, equipment, intellectual property, and other intangible assets. We also bring this expertise to our representation of borrowers to assist them in negotiating and obtaining financing that comports with their individual and business goals.
Our securities attorneys represent several local venture capital firms and angel investors in the negotiation and structuring of their various investments, and also represent businesses that are the target of private investments. Our securities attorneys are experienced in the intricacies of Federal and state securities laws and their application to private transactions, and assist clients with all compliance issues which arise when offering securities, including the drafting of private placement memoranda.
The Cors & Bassett taxation attorneys are experienced in all areas of taxation. We counsel clients not only in corporate tax matters, but also regarding personal tax issues, business and real estate transactions, executive compensation matters, like-kind exchanges, tax planning matters including estate and gift taxation, exempt organization matters, and tax controversies and disputes. Cors & Bassett represents a full spectrum of clients, from publicly held corporations and financial institutions, to closely held corporations, partnerships, and nonprofit organizations. Specific services provided by Cors & Bassett taxation attorneys include:
Cors & Bassett has represented transportation industry clients for over 50 years. C&B transportation attorneys represent motor carriers (both LTL and truckload carriers), intermediaries, shippers, and third party logistics providers in a wide variety of transportation matters. Services provided by C&B transportation attorneys include:
In addition to representing clients in labor and employment matters, Cors & Bassett represents state-funded and self-insured employers in workers’ compensation matters before the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, Industrial Commission of Ohio, and Ohio state courts. Services provided by the experienced C&B workers’ compensation attorneys include:
C&B’s litigation attorneys have extensive experience in trial, appellate, and administrative proceedings before state and federal courts and agencies. Our skilled litigators also represent clients in arbitration hearings, mediations, and other forms of alternate dispute resolution. Our litigators consult and work with other C&B attorneys in our various specialty areas and utilize that expertise to successfully resolve complex litigation and other contested matters, whether in courtrooms, arbitrations, or mediations.
C&B litigators handle a variety of commercial litigation issues, including disputes between consumers and our clients; disputes between manufacturers and dealers; disputes among shareholders; and disputes between our clients and governmental entities regarding taxation, environmental, or employment issues.
Services provided by C&B construction attorneys include:
The Cors & Bassett environmental attorneys develop viable business solutions and resolve disputes for clients facing a complex myriad of environmental regulations. Services provided by our environmental attorneys include:
The Cors & Bassett estate planning and probate attorneys have the requisite expertise and experience to handle the complexities and legal intricacies inherent in the estate planning and estate administration process. Our estate planning attorneys are skilled at minimizing the tax burden on our clients. Protection and preservation of our clients’ accumulated wealth is the hallmark of C&B’s estate planning and probate group. The Cors & Bassett estate planning and probate attorneys provide the following services:
Estate, Retirement, and Liquidity Planning
Business Succession Planning
Trust and Estate Administration
Charitable Planning
The Cors & Bassett estate planning and probate attorneys believe that top-notch planning often involves a client education component. Since our clients are introduced to planning concepts, asked the right questions, and involved in planning discussions from the outset of our representation, the expertise of our attorneys is effectively leveraged to provide the highest benefit (often in the form of tax savings) to our clients.
Today, employers must operate in a highly regulated and litigious business climate. C&B prides itself on helping employers minimize the legal risks involved in making employment decisions without compromising business needs. Our employment law attorneys develop strong relationships with our clients' Human Resource professionals, so that assistance with any employment law issue is only a telephone call or email away. Because of the depth of C&B's labor and employment team, we are able to provide assistance on even the most urgent of matters.
Services offered by our labor and employment attorneys include:
C&B also has decades of experience in litigating employment issues, including: wrongful discharge cases and discrimination cases; breaches of employment, non-competition and non-disclosure agreements; defending unemployment benefits and workers' compensation claims; and representing employers before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and other federal and state agencies.
The firm also has a long, rich history of assisting clients with traditional labor law issues, a rare find in the Greater Cincinnati legal community. Our labor and employment attorneys have assisted countless clients in the following:
The Cors & Bassett personal injury attorneys have extensive experience in the representation of clients injured by automobile accidents, defective products, and the negligence of others, including medical malpractice claims. C&B personal injury attorneys work diligently and efficiently to obtain fair compensation for our clients’ injuries. Personal injury services are offered in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana
Cors & Bassett litigators represent clients before planning commissions, boards of zoning appeals, and boards of revisions when disputes over real estate or zoning issues arise.
C&B attorneys have deep experience in advising clients in a wide variety fundraising transactions, including both the borrowing of funds through debt transactions and the raising of funds through the private offering of securities.
We represent several local banks with respect to their business lending practices and are experienced in the securitization of all types of business assets, including real estate, equipment, intellectual property and other intangible assets. We also bring this expertise to our representation of borrowers to assist them in negotiating and obtaining financing that comports with their individual and business goals.
Our securities attorneys represent several local venture capital firms and angel investors in the negotiation and structuring of their various investments and also represent businesses that are the target of private investments. Our securities attorneys are experienced in the intricacies of Federal and state securities laws and their application to private transactions and assist clients with all compliance issues which arise when offering securities, including the drafting of private placement memoranda.
In addition to representing clients in labor and employment matters, Cors & Bassett represents state-funded and self-insured employers in workers’ compensation matters before the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, Industrial Commission of Ohio, and Ohio state courts. Services provided by the experienced C&B workers’ compensation attorneys include:
Defense of Injury or Occupational Disease Claims
Cors & Bassett family law attorneys represent clients in a wide range of domestic matters. Services provided by C&B family law attorneys include:
The Cors & Bassett taxation attorneys are experienced in all areas of personal taxation. We counsel clients regarding personal tax issues, business and real estate transactions, executive compensation matters, like-kind exchanges, tax planning matters including estate and gift taxation, exempt organization matters, and tax controversies and disputes. Specific personal services provided by Cors & Bassett taxation attorneys include:
The Cors & Bassett personal injury attorneys have extensive experience in the representation of clients injured by automobile accidents, defective products, and the negligence of others, including medical malpractice claims. C&B personal injury attorneys work diligently and efficiently to obtain fair compensation for our clients’ injuries. Personal injury services are offered in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana
The Cors & Bassett estate planning and probate attorneys have the requisite expertise and experience to handle the complexities and legal intricacies inherent in the estate planning and estate administration process. Our estate planning attorneys are skilled at minimizing the tax burden on our clients. Protection and preservation of our clients’ accumulated wealth is the hallmark of C&B’s estate planning and probate group. The Cors & Bassett estate planning and probate attorneys provide the following services:
Estate, Retirement and Liquidity Planning
Business Succession Planning
Trust and Estate Administration
Charitable Planning
The Cors & Bassett estate planning and probate attorneys believe that top-notch planning often involves a client education component. Since our clients are introduced to planning concepts, asked the right questions, and involved in planning discussions from the outset of our representation, the expertise of our attorneys is effectively leveraged to provide the highest benefit (often in the form of tax savings) to our clients.
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