Family, Divorce, Estate Planning, Criminal and Employment Law Attorneys

Albin Harrison Roach

5601 Granite Parkway, Suite 400
Plano, Texas 75024
USA

(214) 423-5100 or (866) 906-8704

(214) 423-5111

www.friscolaw.com

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Law Firm Overview

Albin Harrison Roach believes that many traditional law firms have lost focus on what is really important – the client. Albin Harrison Roach employs highly talented legal professionals in North Texas, who can assist clients with a variety of legal issues. Whether your family is experiencing the traumatic issues surrounding a divorce or your business is weathering the excitement of rapid growth, the attorneys at Albin Harrison Roach are poised, experienced, and prepared to guide you through these very important decisions.

At the heart of our practice is the belief that a twenty-first century law firm must be responsive to the ever-changing needs of its clients. At Albin Harrison Roach, we achieve that level of responsiveness by attentively listening to our clients, evaluating their options, and then finding the right solutions to their problems. We strive to bring value to our clients through a balance of personal service and technology. We use a variety of tools to ensure that each client’s matter is handled quickly and efficiently, and that the client remains well informed of the progress of the matter from start to finish.

Our diverse client base includes individuals, small businesses, and multinational corporations. We provide our clients with a variety of legal services, including, business litigation and transactions, employment law, criminal law, family law, estate planning, and probate.

In addition to our legal team, Albin Harrison Roach has created a technological infrastructure that meets the daily demands of today’s modern clients. All documents that are received by the office are electronically scanned into our docket management system and forwarded to our clients via email. As a result, Albin Harrison Roach clients are updated on the progression of their case in real time.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Sales Agreements, Breach of Contract, Retaliation, Unpaid Overtime, Wage Disputes, Confidentiality Agreements, Non-compete Covenants, Severance Agreements, Fair Labor Standards Act, Revocable Trusts, Living Wills, Irrevocable Trusts, Durable Power of Attorney, Medical Power of Attorney, Partnership Agreement Amendments, Corporate Re-organizations, Asset Acquisitions, Investment Properties, Corporate Leases, Securities Trading

Practice Areas Description

Albin Harrison Roach provides legal services and representation in a broad range of legal matters including, but not limited to:

- Business Formation and Transactions

Whether your business is small or large, local or international, established or in its infancy, you need a law firm that understands that your business is more than just a number at the bottom of a ledger: Albin Harrison Roach knows that, day in and day out, it is your reputation and livelihood on the line. Our attorneys can help you help you establish and grow your business, manage your employer-employee relations, draft and negotiate agreements with customers and vendors, and manage your intellectual property portfolio.

* Corporate Organization and Acquisition
Under Texas law, you have a number of options on organizing your business—you could organize as a sole proprietorship, a C corporation, an S corporations, a limited liability company, or a partnership. But which is best for your circumstances? Albin Harrison Roach regularly counsels clients on the advantages and disadvantages of the various forms of organization recognized by the State of Texas. Additionally, we counsel clients about financing issues, relationships among owners, and acquisitions and divestitures.

* Employer / Employee Relations
Your employees can be a more valuable asset than the inventory in your warehouse or the trucks in your fleet. Without a productive workforce, your business would grind to a halt. We regularly counsel businesses on employment contracts, employee benefits, terminations, discrimination claims, and other matters related to your relationship with your employees.

* Commercial Transactions
Your business does not operate in a vacuum—you interact daily with old customers, new customers, vendors, and suppliers, and you must promptly deal with each of them or risk losing valuable business. You don’t have the time and resources to waste on endless meetings trying to iron out agreements. We can help you draft and negotiate your sales and licensing agreements, real and personal property leases and purchases, liens and releases, and other commercial transaction issues.

In today’s increasingly complex business environment business owners, independent consultants, and vendors all need to have someone they can rely upon to address their business’s legal questions. Whether a client is incorporating a new business venture or managing an ongoing company, Albin Harrison Roach facilitates the exchange of information the client needs in order to make informed decisions designed to capitalize on available options while minimizing the personal financial risk assumed by the client.

- Collaborative Law

Collaborative Law provides clients and their lawyers with a new, formal and strictly non-adversarial approach to resolving legal disputes. It encourages mature, cooperative behavior because the parties contractually agree to eliminate litigation as an option. Our firm’s trained professionals use collaborative techniques to help parties reach settlement in divorces, child custody and support cases, employment law issues, contract breaches, and other civil matters. The widely read legal magazine, Lawyer's Weekly, calls Collaborative Law 'A Revolution in Divorce Law'.

- Criminal Law

Criminal Law is an area of law familiar to almost every person. It serves as the basis for numerous television shows and movies. Unfortunately, this familiarity leads most people into trouble when interacting with the police or law enforcement.

Reality is very different from what you see on television. Everything you say or do can be used in court to help the District Attorney obtain a conviction against you. Texas law often allows evidence that would otherwise be considered inadmissible to still be used against an individual at trial.

Very few people have actual experience dealing with criminal law matters. Even fewer know how to effectively protect and defend their constitutional rights or the rules governing interaction with law enforcement.

Manuel Gonzalez is board-certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and, prior to joining Albin Harrison Roach, Mr. Gonzalez served as an Assistant District Attorney in Collin County for over 10 years. Mr. Gonzalez practices in both the county and district courts in Collin and surrounding counties.

- Employment Law

Employees are a valuable asset to any business. Whether you have one employee or one thousand, your business is required to comply with a wide range of state and federal employment laws. Failure to abide by such laws could result in claims based on discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, unpaid overtime, unemployment benefits, breach of contract, defamation, failure to make reasonable accommodations for a disability and violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act just to name a few.

The goal of our experienced employment law attorneys at Albin Harrison Roach is to assist your business in meeting its legal obligations, managing employee disputes and potentially preventing litigation. To achieve this goal, our attorneys counsel on a variety of employment law issues such as:

* Employment contracts, including confidentiality agreements, covenants not to compete, severance and release agreements
* Wage and hour claims, including guidance on classifications of employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act, payment of overtime, proper wage deductions, unemployment claims
* Employee policies in compliance with federal and state employment laws that also assist in fostering positive employer-employee relations
* Litigation of employment discrimination claims

Albin Harrison Roach’s team of employment law attorneys can help your business navigate the minefield of employment law, and avoid costly litigation through careful planning and implementation of proper safeguards. However, if your business finds itself faced with a charge of employment discrimination, an administrative claim or other lawsuit, our skilled attorneys will ardently defend your business at the administrative level and in the state or federal trial and appellate courts.

- Estate Planning

Estate planning begins with an in-depth and detailed analysis of your estate assets and your wishes as to how you want your property left to your loved ones. Everyone needs a Will, but depending on your particular circumstances, you may also want to consider creating one or more revocable (living) or irrevocable trusts, a durable power of attorney, a medical power of attorney, amendments to partnership agreements, and a variety of other planning documents. We prepare estate-planning documents for small, medium, and large estates.

* Complex Trusts
Simple trusts can meet the needs of most common property management situations. However, in today's world, a simple trust cannot control and manage every trust estate. Infants and adult children may have different needs, or a trust may own properties in several difference states, making those properties subject to the property laws of several different states. Albin Harrison Roach drafts customized trust agreements to manage even the most complex trust estate.

* Probate and Estate Administration
After the death of a loved one, you may find yourself faced with a variety of sometimes confusing choices in how to administer the estate efficiently. The proper choice depends on the size of the estate, the existence of a will, and the family circumstances. The attorneys at Albin Harrison Roach have the experience to help you choose the appropriate legal mechanism for administering your loved one’s estate.

- Family Law and Divorce

The law firm of Albin Harrison Roach represents family law clients across the State of Texas and, in particular, in Collin, Denton, Dallas, Grayson, and Tarrant counties who are faced with issues such as divorce, child custody, child support, parental alienation, grandparent access, termination of parental rights, and adoptions. We are committed to providing our clients with a level of excellence and professional legal services, while preserving personal interaction and financial savings. In addition, we actively explore and pursue the possibility of reconciliation with our client in every appropriate case.

- Taxation and Tax Planning

Whenever possible, the tax implications of a transaction should be evaluated in advance in order to understand the true cost or true value of the transaction. The following are just a few examples of the types of activities and transactions that, without proper planning, could result in significant adverse tax consequences:

* Buy / sell agreements
* Estate planning
* Mergers
* Corporate re-organizations
* Asset acquisitions
* Investment properties
* Corporate leases and
* Securities trading

Albin Harrison Roach has experience in assisting clients in all of these types of transactions, and many more. Our professionals have the experience to evaluate the tax implications of a transaction and provide you with the advice you need in order to make informed decisions for yourself, your family, or your business. The head of the firm’s Tax section is Anish Patel. Mr. Patel earned a Master of Laws degree in Taxation from the Villanova School of Law in Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Patel interned with the IRS Chief Counsel’s Office in Philadelphia, and worked for five years with a boutique firm in Philadelphia that focused on Taxation, Advanced Estate Planning, and Business Administration.

Attorneys

	Mr. Todd Albin Partner Business and Industry, Litigation		Ms. Marissa Balius Partner Collaborative Law, Family Law
	Ms. Laura B. Roach Of Counsel Corporate Law, Family Law, Government, Insurance Defense