Practice Areas
Kilpatrick Law Offices brings to your legal needs thirty five years of private and corporate civil practice emphasizing commercial business and real property matters, including all types of deals and transactions as well as civil trial and appellate litigation.
Transactional Services
- Formation and operation of corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies
- Negotiation, preparation, and review of business agreements and documents
- Purchase and sale contracts; lease agreements; handle/monitor escrows
- Brokering acquisitions and dispositions of real property
- Construction contracts for owner, contractor and subcontractors
- Real estate finance and secured transactions
- Real estate development assistance
- Preparation and review of loan and financing documents; deal structuring
- Title matters; title insurance review/analysis; underwriting issues
- Business counseling; establishing policies and practices; insurance review
- Loss prevention, risk management and litigation assessments
- Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, advance health care directives
Escrow & Title Problems
- Interpleader of surplus funds and buyer/seller deposit disputes. We handle these disputes at no cost to you. We pay all up-front court costs and get paid our legal fees and costs from the funds in dispute. Just send us the file and we take care of the rest.
- Petitions to clear stale liens (e.g., mechanics liens, architects liens)
- Actions to quiet title to real property
- Public records errors | gaps in title | “wild” deeds
- Unknown easements or encumbrances
- Bankruptcy filing in chain of title
- Missing heirs | absence of estate administration
Litigation - Civil Trials & Appeals
- Judicial foreclosures and actions on personal guaranties
- Specific performance of deeds of trust and appointment of receivers
- Surplus funds Interpleader actions (post-foreclosure or escrow disputes)
- Escrow and title insurance problems and claims
- Actions to Quiet Title to real property
- Bank and business collections
- Breach of contract actions
- Enforcement of judgments; creditors’ rights / debtors’ remedies
- Workouts, restructuring, bankruptcy strategies
- Construction claims and disputes
- Mechanics liens and stop notice actions
- Broker/Agent errors and omissions claims
- Specific performance of purchase & sale agreements
"Mr. Kilpatrick has handled interpleader cases for Stewart Title, and we recommend his services."
Chuck Dorn
V.P., Stewart Title
Secured Creditor Bankruptcy Representation
- Objections to plans of reorganization
- Motions to convert or dismiss case
- Motions for relief from stay to continue foreclosure
- Motions for relief from stay for in rem relief based on bad faith filings