What this firmactually handles.

Every business has moments where the legal decision either holds up later or becomes the problem you're paying to fix. Getting the structure right at those moments is easier than rebuilding it under pressure.

This practice handles:

• Business formation and structure entity choice, operating agreements, holding company setup, and restructuring as the business grows
• Contract review and drafting reviewing agreements before signing; drafting contracts that protect your position before a dispute starts
• Private offerings. Assisting businesses with private placement offerings and the securities exemptions that apply to them.
• Trademarks and copyrights protecting your business name, brand, and original work; registration and enforcement
• Ongoing general counsel legal judgment throughout the year, not only when something breaks
• Business dissolution & partner disputes buyouts, wind-downs, and breakups handled in a way that doesn't become a second fight.

Contract claims, partnership breakdowns, unpaid obligations — a commercial dispute moves: demand, complaint, discovery, motions, trial, judgment, enforcement. Samuel has carried matters through every step of that arc. He will give you a direct assessment of where yours stands and what it takes to resolve it.

Typical engagements:

• Breach of contract claims. Commercial agreements, services disputes, supplier and vendor obligations, indemnification.
• Partnership and shareholder disputes. Buyouts, deadlock, fiduciary claims, dissolution.
• Business tort claims. Unfair trade practices, tortious interference, misappropriation, fraud.
• Non-compete and trade-secret matters. Enforcement and defense, injunctive relief where warranted.
• Judgment enforcement. Collection on judgments, asset location, post-judgment proceedings.

This practice works for contractors and subcontractors. If you did the work and haven't been paid, or if your scope is being blamed for problems you didn't cause, this is the work Samuel handles.

Construction disputes turn on documentation. The contractor or subcontractor with the record organized wins.

Typical engagements:

• Mechanic's lien filing and enforcement Perfecting liens under NC statute, claims of lien on funds, foreclosure actions.
• Payment disputes. Unpaid invoices, retainage, change-order disputes, pay-if-paid and pay-when-paid clauses.
• Delay and defect claims Schedule disputes, scope disputes, defective-work allegations, warranty claims.
• Contract disputes and change order fights Subcontract negotiation, prime-contract review, indemnification and insurance provisions.
• Bond claims. Payment-bond and performance-bond claims on public and private projects.

When a matter turns on technical records — construction specifications, engineering documents, financial systems, or large volumes of electronically stored information — the ability to read those records as a technical person changes what you find and how you use it. Samuel handles this work directly.

Other attorneys retain him as co-counsel or local counsel on matters where technical fluency and courtroom experience are needed in the same chair. For Attorneys →