Practical · Thoughtful · Timely
Business lawyers for business people.
Providing legal services to closely-held businesses for the past 45 years. Business, real estate, estate planning and litigation, from our offices in Braintree and Needham.
Practical · Thoughtful · Timely
Providing legal services to closely-held businesses for the past 45 years. Business, real estate, estate planning and litigation, from our offices in Braintree and Needham.
Our Firm
Founded in 1974 by Jeffrey M. Schlossberg in Brockton, Massachusetts as a general law practice, Schlossberg, LLC has grown from its four-attorney base and evolved into a boutique law firm with 13 lawyers providing specialized legal services to businesses and their owners. The Firm continues to espouse his philosophy of providing practical, timely, and thoughtful legal advice to new and established businesses and their owners.
As one of the largest law firms south of Boston, we maintain a small firm approach of providing individual attention to each client. Our team of professionals provides comprehensive legal counsel to closely-held businesses from formation to sale and to individuals for much of their lifetime needs.
We understand the importance of proactive, sound, and thoughtful legal advice, rendered in a timely, responsive, and cost-effective manner. Today’s businesses need a dedicated team to succeed in a competitive environment full of traps for the unwary.
Our team understands the significance of your business decisions, personal interests, and financial interests. We thoroughly evaluate the legal options available in your unique situation and provide an objective and practical approach to meet your personal and business legal needs.
Whether preparing an estate plan or representing a company in a complicated business transaction, our firm provides undivided attention to the matter at hand. Every client’s problem is ours to solve.
Our principal office is less than 20 minutes from Boston and is conveniently located at the intersection of Routes 3 and 128 in Braintree, Massachusetts.
Practice Areas
Schlossberg, LLC provides comprehensive legal counsel for the legal needs of closely-held businesses and business people. Our lawyers and support staff specialize in the following areas.
Our firm counsels businesses from small startup companies to established large organizations. We favor a proactive approach that avoids potential business issues before they arise in the workplace with our attorneys serving as a sounding board for the hard questions that affect our clients’ accounting, tax, and legal issues.
To better understand our clients’ businesses, some of our attorneys have obtained tax degrees. And all our attorneys continue to educate themselves on the laws that affect their clients’ businesses and learn as much as possible about the businesses.Schlossberg serves as the outside General Counsel Most for most clients—we counsel them on all day-to-day business issues such as:
For established businesses, we help with:
Attorneys Chair: Michael T. O’Neil · Scott I. Wolf · Lauren D. Elco · Lisa Kane
Our civil litigation and dispute resolution team provide clients with high-quality, personalized, cost-effective litigation services designed to achieve a favorable resolution of their disputes. We represent clients in disputes ranging from relatively small and local matters to large and complex lawsuits. Our litigation clients include individuals, corporations and business entities of all sizes, entrepreneurs, real estate developers and real estate investment trusts, manufacturers and non-profit organizations.
Our litigators provide advice, counseling, and representation during all stages of a dispute. Because we appreciate that litigation can be costly and time-consuming, we advise and counsel clients about the relative risks, costs, and benefits of continued litigation, as compared to settlement throughout the process.Our attorneys are seasoned litigators with many years of successful trial experience before the District Courts of Massachusetts, the Superior Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the Supreme Judicial Court, the Federal District Court of the District of Massachusetts, the Housing Court, the Probate & Family Courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and many other administrative agencies.Our litigation and dispute resolution services include:
Attorneys Scott Ford · Tiffany L. Stichel · Lisa Treiber
Our firm provides a wide range of estate planning services, from sophisticated planning for the high-net worth client to simple plans for young families. We are dedicated to building long-lasting relationships with our clients and their families and often engage in planning for multiple generations within a family. In addition to their roles as a family advisor, many of our estate planning attorneys have earned advanced degrees in tax law and can provide specialized legal proficiency that many other firms cannot provide. We focus on recent and anticipated developments in applicable law and on specific cutting-edge techniques for protecting you, your spouse, and your family. Our professionals are sensitive to your needs and we have a true concern for the well-being of you and your family. We value being a trusted family advisor. Our estate planning and administration services include:
Attorneys Chair: Brett Kaufman, LL.M., AEP® · Brian T. Moroney
In nearly every business, employees are simultaneously the most important asset and a constant source of legal concern due to ever-changing and increasing state and federal regulations. Our firm provides legal consultation and representation from concerns generated at the pre-hiring stage to the post-separation stage and on every legal and practical issue in between. Our clients range from businesses with a few part-time employees to those with several hundred employees. Because there are so many laws, rules, and regulations governing how you and your employees interact, we make it our goal to provide you with timely and accurate legal counsel in the planning and preparatory stages of employee relations as well as during those moments of unavoidable crisis that sometimes arise.If you are involved in an employment related legal dispute, we can provide aggressive and thorough representation at all levels from administrative agency hearings to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and in the Federal courts. We fight for your rights as an employer and protect you from legal claims asserted against you.Our firm provides employment law services including:
Attorneys Lisa Treiber
Our firm provides buyer, seller, and owner representation for all real estate matters including purchase and sale agreements, financing, zoning and leasing. Our clients include individuals; builders and developers of residential, industrial and commercial projects; and lenders and mortgage bankers. We realize that for most people, real estate will be their single largest investment and this investment should be adequately protected before its purchase, while it is owned, and when it is sold. Thus, our Real Estate team works closely with our Estate Planning and Business teams to ensure that our clients’ real estate interests are part and parcel of a client’s overall plan. Our firm provides real estate services including:
Attorneys Chair: Scott I. Wolf · Tiffany L. Stichel · Kristen Larner
Our firm represents businesses and individuals with the formation, operation, and tax compliance of not-for-profit organizations including public charities, supporting organizations, private foundations, and non-charitable tax-exempt organizations. We advise clients on all issues relating to the operation of a not-for-profit organization including director liability, obtaining tax-exempt status from the IRS, state law compliance, corporate governance, and contract matters. Our business experience enables us to provide assistance for non-profits in the business arena as well.
Our firm provides non-profit services including:
Due to the increasingly litigious nature of our society, protecting one’s assets has become more important than ever. In many ways, asset protection has become foundational to every one of our practice areas at Schlossberg, LLC. The potential exposure to frivolous claims is a part of our analysis of a client’s situation at all times, and our commitment to implementing proactive, creative strategies based upon well-founded legal principles provides our clients with the advantage of security to successfully complete their endeavors in their chosen fields of industry.
Many of the strategies we utilize are simple, basic, and time-tested approaches that may have been overlooked by others: homesteading, titling of assets, incorporating, recommending appropriate insurance coverages, to name a few. If appropriate, we also employ more sophisticated and complex approaches that are unique to each client’s circumstances such as family limited partnerships, domestic asset protection trusts, dynasty trusts, or special needs trusts in appropriate circumstances
Our firm provides asset protection services including:
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Recent Matters
Every day, we advise closely-held businesses and their owners in the areas of business transactions, estate planning, employment, commercial and residential real estate, civil litigation, probate administration, and asset protection. Here is a sample of some recent cases.
Contact
For general inquiries, please send an email to [email protected]. Sending an email to this address does not create an attorney-client relationship, and any information sent to this address should not be considered confidential.
(781) 848-5028Fax (781) 848-5096
Phone (781) 848-5028
Fax (781) 848-5096
Phone (781) 848-5028
Directions to Braintree
Building #35 is near the top of the hill on the right. Visitor parking is in the front of the building. Schlossberg, LLC is on the fourth floor, Suite 401: turn right off the elevator and look for the glass entrance to our office straight ahead. An accessible entrance is located in the lower parking level.
Follow the Southeast Expressway (Route 93) and bear right to Dedham/Route 93 South and take Exit #6, Route 37 (Holbrook/Braintree). Take left at end of the ramp. Come to set of lights with Men’s Wearhouse/FedEx on right (across from Herb Chambers Ford dealership) and turn right up hill.
Follow Route 3 to the Braintree split. Bear left and follow signs to Dedham/Route 93 South (to Route 95). Take first Exit #6, Route 37 (Holbrook/Braintree). Take left at the end of the ramp. Come to set of lights with Men’s Wearhouse/FedEx on right (across from Herb Chambers Ford dealership) and turn right up hill.
Take Route 128 South to Exit #6, Route 37. At lights, take a left and follow under the underpass, past Barnes & Noble Bookstore to second set of lights. Men’s Wearhouse/FedEx will be on the right (across from Herb Chambers Ford dealership). Turn right and go up the hill.
Take 95 North to 93 South to Exit #6, Route 37. At lights, take a left and follow under the underpass, past Barnes & Noble Bookstore to second set of lights. Men’s Wearhouse/FedEx will be on the right (across from Herb Chambers Ford). Turn right at light and go up the hill.
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