Joel McKie

Specialties & Capabilities

• Standard Residential Closings

Languages Spoken

English

Friend, Hudak & Harris, LLP offers comprehensive legal services across several critical business areas, ensuring clients receive expert guidance to navigate complex legal landscapes.

In Commercial Real Estate Law, the firm excels at transforming opportunities into strategic advantages. They represent diverse real estate owners and developers, providing expertise in structuring, negotiating, and documenting development, construction, and financing for commercial transactions. Services include forming real estate investment entities, syndications, private offerings, and the purchase, sale, and exchange of real property, including Section 1031 exchanges. They also handle landlord and tenant retail, office, and industrial leasing.

The firm is dedicated to Intellectual Property Law, understanding that IP and business goodwill are core assets. They offer comprehensive guidance in evaluating and registering copyrights and trademarks, protecting trade secrets, managing invention rights, and enforcing restrictive covenants. Friend, Hudak & Harris also assists with the acquisition and transfer of IP rights, infringement risk analysis, and IP issues in business sales, mergers, and acquisitions. They are experienced in litigation and dispute resolution concerning IP rights, domain rights, and cybersquatting.

Their Technology Law practice provides tailored guidance to clients across various industries. Experience spans Internet and e-commerce law, software development and licensing across diverse models (SaaS, PaaS, mobile apps), and technology-related business transactions. They also advise on compliance with information security, data privacy, and data breach laws, online defamation, and technology issues in M&A. Litigation and dispute resolution for complex technology matters are also a key offering.

Finally, Friend, Hudak & Harris offers robust support in Employment Law, executive compensation, and employee benefits, including ERISA. They help businesses choose and implement effective compensation, incentive, and compliance programs, and guide them through allegations of employment law or ERISA violations. Services include drafting executive employment contracts, advising on equity-based compensation, FMLA matters, wage and hour law, discrimination allegations, qualified and non-qualified employee benefit plans, ERISA filing, and worker classification.