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Businesses and manufacturers
Companies that need an entity kept in good standing, contracts that hold up, leases read before they are signed, and somebody to call when a deal turns up on a Friday afternoon.
Who the firm works for
A general practice firm in a county seat ends up with an unusually wide client list. These are the ones the firm names publicly.
Representative clients include the Mike Raisor Auto Group, the Indiana Fire Chiefs Association, the Indiana Independent Funeral Directors Association, Vanguard National Trailer Corp., the Tippecanoe County Public Library, Complete College America, and the Town of Clarks Hill. The firm also represents a large number of individuals and families whose names are nobody's business but their own.
Mike Raisor Auto Group
Automotive retail
Indiana Fire Chiefs Association
Statewide association
Indiana Independent Funeral Directors Association
Statewide association
Vanguard National Trailer Corp.
Manufacturing
Tippecanoe County Public Library
Public library
Complete College America
Education nonprofit
Town of Clarks Hill
Municipal government
The individuals and families are the larger group and none of them are listed, which is the correct way round.
A library, a trailer plant and a town do not share a lawyer by accident.
They share one because the underlying work is the same in shape: somebody has to read the contract, keep the entity in order, get the property transferred properly and be reachable when a question turns up on a Thursday. A firm that has done that for a statewide association and for a family selling a house has seen the same problem at both ends of the scale.
Who ends up on the client list
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Statewide associations and nonprofits
Trade and professional associations operating across Indiana, with the governance, bylaws and tax exempt questions that come with running an organization made of members.
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Public bodies
A county library and a town. Public clients bring open meeting rules, procurement, and decisions that are made in public and have to survive being read back later.
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Individuals and families
The largest group by count. Buying and selling homes, writing wills, settling estates, arranging guardianships, and mediating family matters.
What being a client of this firm is actually like
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You get an attorney, not a queue
Three attorneys, five people, one office. Whoever takes the call does the work, and will tell you plainly if it belongs with one of the others.
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The relationship outlasts the matter
Many clients arrive for one thing and come back years later for something unrelated. A long term relationship is the firm's stated aim, and the client list is what that looks like after fifty years.
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Your time is part of the job
The firm's own promise is that its lawyers will respect your time. In practice that means being told what a matter needs, what it does not, and when the answer is that you do not need a lawyer for this at all.
The concrete version of all of that is in the practice areas, set out matter by matter, and the people doing it are on the team page.
If the firm did right by you, say so where it counts.
Most people looking for an attorney in Tippecanoe County start with a search and read whatever comes back. A few sentences from someone who has actually sat across the table is worth more to them than anything written on this page.
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About working with the firm
Do you only work with businesses?
No. Individuals and families are the largest part of the practice by number: houses, wills, estates, guardianships and mediation. The named client list is public because those clients are organizations, not because they are the whole practice.
Are you taking new clients?
Call 765-423-1001 and ask. It is a small firm, so the honest answer depends on the matter and the timing.
Can you act for my company and for me personally?
Often, and sometimes not, because a company and its owner can have interests that diverge. It is a question worth raising at the start, not mid matter.
Do you take work outside Tippecanoe County?
From the Lafayette office the firm serves individuals and businesses throughout Indiana.
How do I check whether my matter is something you handle?
The practice areas page sets out what the firm does. If yours is not on it, call anyway and you will get a straight answer and, where possible, a direction to go in.
Tell us what you are dealing with.
Describe it in order, with the dates. You will get a straight read on whether this needs an attorney, what the work involves, and where to start.
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