Mediation is an alternative dispute resolution process which serves as an option to civil litigation in the court system. It is a voluntary, non-binding, structured process where people in conflict can work with the guidance of a neutral party toward the best, most mutually agreeable outcome. Mediation eases the friction between people so that they can pursue a common end without the stress, trauma, cost and uncertainty of civil litigation. Antheil Maslow & MacMinn has a strong team of seasoned attorneys who are trained mediators in the areas of commercial litigation, family and Orphan’s Court matters.  With comprehensive knowledge of each court system, and the challenges and costs inherent to  litigating disputes, our mediators bring a high level of legal acumen and interpersonal skill to every mediation.  

Commercial Litigation/Dispute Mediation

As commercial litigators, Antheil Maslow & MacMinn’s mediation team is able to leverage extensive trial and litigation experience to work with the parties and their counsel in a collaborative and thoughtful way to achieve an agreeable resolution.  Much of our practice as commercial litigators involves analyzing and resolving the competing claims and interests of shareholders, owners, general contractors, design professionals, suppliers and subcontractors. As a result, we are well versed in the essential elements key to commercial conflicts and necessary to achieving agreeable resolutions.  Our years of representing stakeholders to business conflicts lends itself to mediation, as AMM mediators are comfortable and experienced in negotiating the resolution of strongly contested multi-party disputes.

• Post-closing disputes arising out of mergers and acquisitions, including net working capital disputes
• Products liability
• Personal injury
• Toxic tort
• Medical device claims
• Unsuitability claims against broker-dealers and lender liability claims
• Products cases involving industrial machinery and consumer products
• Construction disputes
  
  

Corporate, Business, Business Divorce

An internal business dispute can result in a loss of control over business operations or expensive and distracting litigation. Antheil Maslow & MacMinn's business and corporate practice has been offering sophisticated
legal advice to shareholders since it's formation in 1992.  Our corporate mediation team is well prepared to evaluate the various interests and contributions of parties in business disputes, and is adept at helping parties
reach a fair resolution to minimize loss and costly litigation in matters including:

• Breach of Contract
• Business Divorce 
• Construction Claims
• Intellectual Property Disputes
• Real Estate Disputes
• Securities Claims
• Shareholder Disputes
  
  

Employment Dispute Mediation

Controversies arising from disputes with employees are a major risk factor in today’s business environment.  The damages that may result from a major dispute with an employee or conflict with a key executive can be tremendously costly, not only in financial terms, (legal fees, and potential jury awards), but with regard to the negative impact that litigation causes in distraction, disruption and emotional cost to managers,  owners and employees alike. When a terminated or current employee makes a claim against his or her employer, it is generally in the interest of both parties to attempt to resolve the matter early through a procedure called mediation.  AMM employment law mediation offers an efficient, economical and low stress alternative to the litigation process. We assist parties facing employment law disputes including:

• Wage and Hour Claims
• Family, medical, parental, military and other leaves
• Noncompetes
• Discrimination
• Workplace harassment
• Sexual harassment
• Disciplinary issues
• Wage and hour issues
• Non-competition, non-solicitation and confidentiality agreements
• Disability and religious accommodation issues
• Wrongful termination or other adverse actions
• Employment & severance agreements
  
  

Family Law Mediation

For families going through the process of divorce or separation, the path ahead can be difficult, emotional, stressful and frightening.  Going through costly and adversarial court battles only makes a bad situation worse.  For couples who can work together toward a resolution, choosing a skilled mediator who can facilitate a discussion between the parties and their counsel with as little trauma and acrimony as possible can significantly minimize the emotional and financial cost to the family.  The aftermath of successful divorce mediation can help the parties to amicably and move forward toward the future.

• Divorce & separation agreements
• Co-parenting Agreements
• Child support, spousal support and alimony
• Gay & lesbian partnerships
• Military divorces

All of our mediators take an active, persistent, conciliatory approach to their role.  Our focus is to defuse emotional drivers which may impede progress toward agreement, and boil the conflict down to its practical realities, thereby helping the parties to generate and analyze options, and identify ways to overcome barriers to reach their settlement objectives.

Elaine Yandrisevits,an associate in Antheil Maslow & MacMinn’s Estates and Trusts practice group, will participate as faculty on December 3rd at a National Business Institute continuing education program focusing on the requirements, procedures and pitfalls of fiscal planning with supplemental needs trusts. This legal briefing will provide an overview of the specialized skills required to provide special needs beneficiaries with financial structure and stability and enable accountants, attorneys and financial planners to offer clients guidance on this important estate planning tool and find creative cost-effective ways of funding supplemental needs trusts.  To Register, visit Special Needs Trusts and the ABLE Act,

•    Get tips for accurate assessment of the client's present and future disability and needs.
•    Determine whether a client qualifies as a beneficiary of a special needs trust.
•    Don't reinvent the wheel - modify our sample trust documents and use our drafting tips to create airtight trusts.
•    Understand and communicate the limitations of SNTs and ensure reasonable client expectations.

Who Should Attend

This legal briefing offers a simple guide to supplemental needs trusts that will benefit attorneys. Others who may benefit from this course include trust officers, estate planners, accountants, and paralegals.

Course Content

•    What SNTs Can and Cannot do for Your Client
•    Assessing the Degree of the Beneficiary's Current and Future Disability and Needs
•    Types of SNTs and Their Uses
•    Basic Drafting Considerations
•    SNT Funding, Administration and Termination

Antheil Maslow & MacMinn, LLP, a Bucks County-based full-service law firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Mariam W. Ibrahim to the Firm’s Family Law practice group. Ms. Ibrahim
practices exclusively in the area of family law, handling a variety of issues, including divorce, child support, alimony/spousal support, equitable distribution and child custody matters. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Ibrahim served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Judge Jeffrey G. Trauger in the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas. 

Learn more about Mariam Ibrahim.
 

Michael W. Mills, JD, CFP, CPA, a Partner of Antheil Maslow & MacMinn, LLP in Doylestown, PA, presented – “Qualified Business Income Deduction Under IRC Sec. 199A” at the Financial Planning Association of the Philadelphia Tri-State Area’s September 27th Bucks County Continuing Education Study Group Breakfast meeting at the Doylestown Country Club.

This informative program outlined the mechanics of the QBI Deduction to highlight issues that will allow Financial Planners to identify opportunities and challenges with the deduction and review planning strategies. 

Mills has 26 years of experience as an attorney and CPA representing closely-held businesses and their owners with a particular focus on tax planning/compliance by reason of his CPA license and advanced tax degree.

AMM founder Sue Maslow joined three other panelists at the American Bar Association Business Law Section's Annual meeting in Austin, Texas on September 15th.  Maslow addressed  questions surrounding identifying the client when representing corporate entities and the tension between state Rules of Professional Responsibility, SEC Rules and personal moral codes of conduct when evaluating permissive disclosures.  The panel also provided guidance in navigating the limits of the attorney-client privilege, conflicts of interest and attorney withdrawal with illustrations from recent headline events and movies like Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Elaine Yandrisevits, an Associate in Antheil Maslow & MacMinn’s Estates and Trusts practice group, will participate as faculty at three upcoming continuing legal education programs this month for the National Business Institute on topics such as estate planning, the probate process and special needs trusts. 
 
The first seminar is on August 13th  “Estate Planning: Top 7 Tools to Know” is a  comprehensive overview of top estate planning tools, and will outline how to strategically use wills, trusts, advanced directives and more. It is sure to provide valuable techniques that lawyers, financial advisors, trust officers and paralegals can use to provide maximum benefit to clients.  Visit www.nbi-sems.com for details and registration.

On August 28th, Yandrisevits will present at The Probate Process from Start to Finish , and on August 29th, Special Needs Trusts in a Nutshell.  Details and registration are for these programs are also available on the NBI website.

Antheil Maslow & MacMinn is pleased to announce that Elaine T. Yandrisevits has joined the firm’s Estate Planning & Administration and Tax practice groups.  Elaine is committed to guiding individuals and families through the process of planning for their future needs. Elaine takes the time to develop an understanding of her clients’ goals and priorities and helps them to develop comprehensive estate plans which provide for their families and preserve their wealth in the years to come.

Elaine Yandrisevits practices exclusively in the Estates and Trusts department. She focuses her practice on estate planning, trusts and estate administration and assists with fiduciary litigation matters. Elaine has a great deal of practical experience with special needs trust planning and guardianships. Elaine is a frequent speaker on estate planning, estate administration, and special needs planning for continuing legal education and community organizations.

Patricia Collins, Employment Partner at Antheil Maslow & MacMinn, LLP, will be a presenter at the Well Employees = Well Business: Best Practices and Legal Considerations Event of CBCC’s Health and Wellness Committee on June 14th – 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. at CB Chamber Headquarters. Also speaking will be Megan Duelks, CoE Employee Health Innovation of Johnson & Johnson Global Health Services.  Pamela J. Ginsberg, Ph.D., staff psychologist at Doylestown Health will facilitate the presentation.  The program, for employers, is focused on creating a culture of caring to improve productivity, wellness and joy in the workplace.  It is free to attend and open to the community and Chamber members alike.  Registration for this informative event is at centralbuckschamber.com.

AMM congratulates our 2018 Super Lawyer and Rising Star attorneys named in the 2018 Super Lawyer listing by Thomson Reuters.

Jessica Pritchard, chair of the firm’s Family Law practice group, was named one of the “Top 50 Women” again this year,  and one of Philadelphia’s Top 100 attorneys by the publisher of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine. Ms. Pritchard has been included in the Super Lawyer listing for the past four years. 

Elizabeth Fineman, an associate in our Family Law department, was named a 2017 Rising Star by the same publication for the sixth year. 

Both Pritchard and Fineman concentrate their practices exclusively in Family Law.   Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. This selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. To learn more, please visit www.superlawyers.com.

AMM congratulates our 2018 Super Lawyer and Rising Star attorneys named in the 2018 Super Lawyer listing by Thomson Reuters.

Jessica Pritchard, chair of the firm’s Family Law practice group, was named one of the “Top 50 Women” again this year,  and one of Philadelphia’s Top 100 attorneys by the publisher of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine. Ms. Pritchard has been included in the Super Lawyer listing for the past four years. 

Elizabeth Fineman, an associate in our Family Law department, was named a 2017 Rising Star by the same publication for the sixth year. 

Both Pritchard and Fineman concentrate their practices exclusively in Family Law.   Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. This selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. To learn more, please visit www.superlawyers.com.