Areas of Legal Practice
Immigration - Companies and Individuals
The Guerrero Law Firm provides immigration-related legal services on a broad scale. With clients ranging from established multi-national companies, to non-profit organizations, and from families, to individuals, we deliver quality and responsive legal service, when counseling clients on issues concerning family-based, employment-based, temporary and permanent immigration to the United States.
We are active in professional organizations such as the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and speak and write on numerous topics related to this field. Our attorneys are recognized legal experts in U.S. immigration law. Our attorneys have also served as immigration law teachers and instructors for the City University of New York.
Estate Planning and Administration
Clients with estates and businesses of all sizes turn to the Guerrero Law Firm for their estate planning, business succession and probate needs. We counsel clients in the transfer and disposition of family assets and businesses by offering a full range of estate planning techniques, including wills, trusts, partnerships, limited liability companies, and buy-sell agreements. In addition, we serve as or represent executors during the estate administration stage with professionalism and empathy.
General Corporate and Entrepreneurial Law
Our law firm helps entrepreneurs start their business and grow their business. We work closely with ventures to determine the appropriate business entity formation, based upon that particular client's needs and goals. We also maintain close relationships with our clients as they grow.
By doing this, we can anticipate their changing needs and respond when necessary, by providing further services from this or any of our other legal practice areas. We strive to go a step beyond providing legal services and understand the client's big picture, so that we can provide helpful and appropriate business advice.
Real Estate Transactions - Commercial and Residential
We possess a strong and diversified real estate practice that serves a local and international clientele. We represent individual sellers and purchasers, developers, banking institutions, lenders, landlords and tenants, and other parties in development, purchase and sales, financing, and leasing transactions.
Our detail-oriented approach while performing these services ensures that all aspects of a client's deal are handled with precision and care. More importantly, we work with our clients to structure and close real estate transactions in order to maximize the return and minimize the risks.
Labor and Employment Law
We have successfully represented executives, non-management employees, businesses, and non-profit organizations, in federal and state court in employment law litigations.
Areas of advocacy include:
- Employment discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation and other protected categories
- Sexual Harassment Claims
- Minimum Wage and Overtime Claims
- Whistleblower Claims
- Retaliation Claims
- Review of Non-Competition Agreements Claims and Related Litigation
- Breach of Contract Claims
- Family and Medical Leave Compliance
- Employee Benefit Plan Disputes
- Employment-Related Torts
- Review of Separation Agreements and Negotiation
We are experienced in representing clients in mediations and proceedings before the United States Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, New York State Division of Human Rights, New Jersey Division of Civil Rights and the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.
We advise and counsel employers about their rights and obligations under state and federal law and assist them in developing preventative personnel policies. Our attorneys have conducted a substantial number of corporate internal investigations concerning employment discrimination and sexual harassment claims for large and small companies.
Commercial Litigation
We are well-trained and experienced in litigation practice before state and federal courts and administrative tribunals, at the trial and appellate levels, in New York and New Jersey. We also have extensive experience in arbitration proceedings and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
We look at all cases from both a professional and business-oriented approach. What's best for his particular case? A quick settlement approach? An alternative dispute resolution such as arbitration? Or vigorous litigation in state or federal court? We work closely with our clients throughout their litigation, paying close attention to their particular concerns and responding in kind. More importantly, we implement an aggressive and creative litigation strategy focused solely upon the client's goals.
