Veris Law Group PLLC

Veris Law Group PLLC is a team of fierce advocates that leverage their skills, knowledge, and industry experience to efficiently solve problems, big and small, for clients dealing with environmental, business, real estate, construction, and insurance issues. Its clients include international corporations, national companies, and regional and local businesses. Its attorneys are skilled in negotiating complex transactions, drafting complicated agreements, advising clients on regulatory matters, and litigating disputes when necessary.

Environmental

Veris attorneys have decades of experience advising clients on environmental regulations, including those that affect development projects, govern ongoing businesses activities, or impose liability for environmental contamination. Veris helps its clients navigate complex and sometimes conflicting environmental standards, develop successful strategies for securing environmental permits and approvals, and negotiate agreements with federal, state, and local regulators to minimize and resolve environmental risk and liability, including consent decrees and administrative orders. Veris often pursues insurance coverage and cost recovery claims for clients to offset the cost of investigating and cleaning up contaminated sites. Veris has extensive experience litigating claims in federal and state courts, and resolving them through dispute resolution procedures, including mediation and arbitration. Veris also defends claims asserted by parties alleging injury from environmental contamination, enforcement actions initiated by government agencies, and complex class actions involving large numbers of plaintiffs.

Business

Veris provides a wide range of services to businesses and business owners, including entity selection and formation, shareholder and operating agreements, vendor and supplier contracts, mergers, acquisitions, and other business transactions. Veris leans on its decades of experience to help clients identify and implement practical solutions and strategies to the challenges and opportunities all businesses experience.

Real Estate

Veris works closely with buyers, sellers, landlords, and tenants on a wide variety of real estate matters, including drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, commercial and residential leases, easements, and deeds, and assisting clients successfully close complicated residential and commercial transactions. Veris also represents clients involved in real estate disputes, litigating them when necessary.

Construction

Veris provides full service to clients in the construction industry, from initial project design and contract document development, through project management and, when necessary, dispute resolution. Veris represents owners, general contractors, specialty subcontractors, owner’s representatives, and design professionals in both private and public projects. Veris provides a full range of legal services, including contract preparation, negotiation and administration, risk assessment and allocation, change order negotiation, bid protests, termination by convenience and default, and claim counseling. Veris also prosecutes and defends construction claims through varied dispute resolution procedures, including mediation, arbitration, and litigation in state and federal courts.

Insurance

Veris represents policyholders in first- and third-party coverage disputes under many types of insurance policies, including environmental, pollution, comprehensive general liability, business, homeowner, and property policies. Veris has been successful in obtaining millions of dollars in coverage for clients in complex and challenging matters and is especially adept at gaining coverage for liabilities associated with historic environmental contamination. Veris advises clients on a range of insurance issues, including products liability, property damage, toxic tort and environmental liabilities, construction defects, and tort claims.

Litigation

Veris attorneys have a wealth of experience handling a wide range of litigation matters, from simple contract disputes to complicated multi-party cases. Veris litigates business, environmental, land use, commercial, insurance, real estate, and construction disputes for clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to individuals and small family businesses. Veris successfully resolves cases through all means of dispute resolution procedures, including mediation, arbitration, and litigation before administrative bodies and in state and federal courts. Veris employs a solution-oriented approach to litigation and knowing that most clients do not want to be involved in litigation, Veris works quickly and proactively towards resolving cases outside of court. When litigation is unavoidable, Veris works closely with clients in devising and implementing a winning strategy while keeping costs down by avoiding unnecessary discovery and motion practice. Veris has significant courtroom experience and is equipped to handle lengthy and complicated trials.