About Us
Our focus is small and mid-size businesses and their owners. We succeed when you succeed.
Our mission at the Barron Law Office is to provide superior, cost-effective legal services to small and mid-size companies and their owners so they can focus on what they do best: run their businesses and provide for their families.
We do that by focusing on and specializing in certain areas of the law rather than dabbling in all of them. We focus on litigation, corporate and commercial transactions, and employment law. You can read more about our services here.
Our core specialty is litigation, which we've been focusing on since 2005. But we've evolved over time, and we've developed a broader perspective that guides how we advise clients. It starts from the very inception of a company and continues through most of what it does on a day-to-day basis. We call it litigation avoidance.
Here's a small sampling of what litigation avoidance means to us:
Structure your company the right way:
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Are you incorporated, or operating a sole proprietorship?
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Are you incorporated correctly (are you a corporation but should be an LLC or something else)?
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Are you incorporated in the right state?
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Do you have the right governing documents in place (think operating agreements, bylaws)?
Run and manage your day-to-day operations the right way:
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Are you segregating company matters from personal matters?
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Are you properly documenting major company decisions (think bringing on new members/shareholders, taking out loans, hiring and firing decisions)?
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Do you have the right policies and procedures in writing and distributed to the right people (think employee handbooks, company resolutions)?
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Are your contracts (think leases, employment or independent contractor agreements) fully protecting you? Or are there landmines that you're missing?
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Are you training your employees on workplace do's and don'ts (think non-discrimination training)?
When a dispute is unavoidable, explore options besides litigation:
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Should your company's contracts have arbitration or mediation clauses? If so, do your comply with all the various legal requirements?
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Even if there's no contractual arbitration clause, can and should you pursue private arbitration?
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What about private mediation?
If, despite your best efforts, you do end up in court, the Barron Law Office has the experience and resources to zealously pursue your claim, or to defend you in court. That's been our primary focus for nearly 20 years now, and it will continue to do so going forward. At the same time, that focus and experience makes us best equipped to know what to do--and what not to do--so that companies can avoid the hassles of litigation in the first place.
A little bit about me.
I grew up in Butler, Pennsylvania, graduating from Knoch High School in 1998. I got my undergraduate degree from Syracuse University (where I experienced a lifetime's worth of snow in 4 years) in 2002. I came back home and went to law school at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where I was a Research Editor for the Law Review.
After graduating from law school in 2005, I worked at two mid-sized Pittsburgh-based law firms, where I was fortunate enough to cut my teeth as a civil commercial litigator first-hand. I "first chaired" several jury and non-jury trials (yes, civil trials do still exist, although they are close to extinction), and private arbitrations (AAA and JAMS, to name two).
I gained invaluable hands-on, real-world experience and insight into what companies should and shouldn't do when establishing their businesses, transacting day-to-day business, getting their contracts in order, and how to try to avoid litigation--just to name a few. I opened my own practice in 2021 to best provide superior, cost-effective legal services to my clients.
I currently live in Valencia with my wife and two kids. In my spare time, I love all sports, with soccer (I coach both kids' teams and am a member of the Mars Area Soccer Club Board), baseball, and football being the household's current favorites. I also enjoy running, and I recently started hiking, with parts of the Appalachian Trail and the Laurel Highlands Trail down and many more to go.