Paul Franco

Paul C. Franco represents a wide variety of businesses and organizations, including farmers, manufacturers, construction companies, physicians, mortgage companies and real estate firms.   His business background and experience allows him to identify and avoid potential legal pitfalls for his clients. He is experienced in forming, dissolving and merging of business entities including corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. Paul also represents businesses in a variety of internal matters including partner and shareholder disputes and succession planning.   Paul has an extensive real estate practice that includes sales transactions and litigation, lease transactions and dispute resolution, foreclosure avoidance, landlord and tenant actions, partition and quiet title actions, construction defect actions, as well as representation of real estate brokers and agents.   From small to large size estates, he is experienced in counseling his clients in the effective creation of estate plans to avoid probate and estate tax issues. His decedent estate practice includes probate and trust administration as well as litigation. Paul is a frequent speaker on a variety of real estate transaction and estate planning topics both in-house and as a community partner.