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In the minds of most businessmen and women, the practice of commercial or business law is a highly specialized field of law that includes many legal facets from transactional contract development to litigation services. As a general rule business law attorneys are well-versed in the laws governing the establishment and operations of a business entity as well as transactions that take place between businesses, clients, vendors, sub-contractors, and customers. This type of legal practice also offers representation to resolve disputes between parties, businesses, any commercial transactions and provides litigation services when disputes are not resolved amicably.
Commercial lawyers can be essential when establishing a corporate formation, providing legal guidance in developing policies and procedures, drafting contracts, and other legal documents including non-competes and demand letters.
The relationship between business owners and their commercial attorneys is different than most other attorney-client interactions, because of the ongoing opportunities that exist within most business operations. Having legal counsel who is an accessible resource, is similar to having in-house counsel without the cost. Cultivating that relationship can be of a tremendous advantage when things go awry.
Most business law attorneys would agree that the phrase “it’s all in the contracts” clearly defines the role contracts play in establishing the rules by which most businesses operate with clearly defined roles, expectations, and procedures. Expert contract drafting not only helps avoid costly disputes down the road but protects the interests of the parties concerned in a way that manifests the intent of all parties involved.
Full-service commercial law firms can also advise on a variety of labor and employment law issues including wage and compensation plans, structured bonuses, incentive compensation, confidentiality provisions, and even Belo agreements and independent contractor agreements. Highly qualified and experienced business law attorneys also help legally establish a business and their compliance to applicable laws related to their industry.
As experienced business law attorneys, we at Heekin Law understand our professional role of advising and counseling our clients on a myriad of issues affecting them through the life cycle of their businesses. Affordable legal counsel is the cornerstone of our practice assisting all types of businesses including sole proprietorships, partnerships, independent businesses, franchises, non-profits, construction firms, homeowner, condo, and commercial associations. We also provide legal assistance for establishing guardianships, estate, and real estate services.
We are experts in the practice of business law and handle all types of business litigation including contract disputes, tortious interference, breach of agreements, FTUDPA, Civil RICO, or any type of dispute resolution through, negotiation, mediation, and trials. We understand the delicate balance of many ongoing business relationships and prefer settlement through negotiation, exhausting every measure to preserve them whenever possible. We establish a mutual gains resolution policy, which can be beneficial to both parties without the costly need for courtroom intervention. If you are in need of a commercial law attorney, we offer a free, initial consultation with an attorney whose expertise is specific to your legal needs. Give us a call today at 904-355-7000 to schedule your appointment.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to