PraCtice Areas

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 We have been representing mental health care providers, behavioral health facilities, and billing companies with all apsects of thier business including:

• Business formation and acquisition, purchase and sales agreements, partnership agreements, buy-in and buyout agreements, healthcare employment contracts and disputes, permitting and licensing, facility inspections, accreditation, CMS certification, compliance plans and review, anti-kickback, HIPPA compliance, reimbursement issues, business disputes
• Lisceing issues: Denials, renewals issues, difficulty obtaining a license, reporting convictions
• Credentialing denials and revocations, NPDB issues, CMS matters, OIG exclusion
• Accreditation, CMS certification, state licensing, inspections
• Malpractice, conflict of interest, duty to warn others matters
• Confidentiality/privacy/disclosure issues
• DEA: Application, renewal issues, show cause orders, DEA inspections, enforcement actions (administrative and criminal)
• Suspensions, revocations, restrictions, administrative complaints, board and ALJ hearings, investigations, appeals, modifications
• Baker Act issues
• Sexual misconduct defense (criminal and licensing)
• CMS Audits and private insurance Audits
• Medicaid Fraud
• Local Governmental : liscesing zoining issues
• American Disabilities Act issues

   As a business attorney, Benjamin B. Grindstaff provides counsel in all manner of business and commercial transactions. From beginning to end, your business is covered. Here is a list of specific business law services we provide:

• Local Governmental : liscesing zoining issues
• American Disabilities Act issues
• Counsel for small and mid-sized businesses
• Bank representation
• Bankruptcy law
• Broker and dealer compliance
• Business formation and dissolution
• Choice of the right business type (e.g., LLCs, LLPs, S-corps, corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, and DBA)
• Computer law (internet, domain names, e-commerce, and technology law)
• Contracts (negotiation, drafting, execution, disputes, collections, and enforcement of obligations; including real estate, franchise agreements, goods, services, intellectual property)
• Corporate entity formation, governance, and control (ownership rights, duties to other owners, owner control agreements, buy-sell agreements)
• Creditor’s rights (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act compliance and defense)
• Distributorship agreements
• Draft and negotiate leases
• Draft, review, and negotiate confidentiality, internet and technology related agreements and other commercial agreements
• Employment law and employment agreements (non-compete, non-solicitation, confidentiality agreements, wrongful termination)
• Equipment leasing agreements
• Financing (business, private, mortgages)
• Formation of tax-exempt not-for-profit companies (e.g. 501(c)(3))
• Handling commercial real estate leasing, financing, and closings
• Insurance law (claims, policy language interpretation, litigation, coverage decisions)
• Intellectual property (trademark, domain names, copyright, patent, trade secret)
• Letters of intent
• Litigation in state and federal courts
• Loan documentation
• Mergers and acquisitions (due diligence, negotiation, tax planning, regulatory compliance, restructures, divestitures, reorganizations)
• Negotiate and prepare employment and severance agreements
• Negotiate and prepare operating agreements and shareholder agreements
• Prepare business plans
• Private placement documentation and financing syndication
• Purchase and sale (equity and assets)
• Purchasing and selling businesses
• Secured transactions
• Shareholder relations, and agreements for the purchase and sale of property and goods and services.
• Tax (business tax, tax planning strategies)
• Wealth management and fraudulent transfer avoidance planning

     Benjamin B. Grindstaff and his staff has been representing clients in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area and throughout Utah for many years. During this time, he has earned a reputation for excellence in the legal community. He continues to build on this reputation by helping clients achieve the best possible results in a wide range of legal matters.

     Providing full-service legal representation to our clients, we focus on matters of family law and divorce, personal injury, business and criminal law We also provide representation in transactional matters and civil litigation, serving a wide range of needs, including business and commercial law, landlord/tenant issues and appeals.

     Our fundamental success as a law firm has been in building quality relationships with our clients. All of our clients are treated with respect for their individual goals and objectives

      We understand that many people who seek the services of a lawyer are not familiar with the legal system. They may wonder if the choices they make are the right ones, often worrying whether or not they are taking actions that will bring the best possible results. Our lawyers make sure that you are comfortable with the legal process. We listen to your concerns and answer your questions, providing clear information about the possible outcomes of your case and the next steps we will take.

     We embody and take a caltulated approach to litigation litigation. Our Lawyers have experience in complex cases in a great number of practice areas. 

• Financing (business, private, mortgages)
• Alternative Energy
• Aviaion
• Banking
• Construction Law
• Employment
• Financial
• Family Law
• Medical Malpractice Defense
• Personal injury/ Wrongful Death
• Real Estate
• Workers Compemsation
• Wills Trust and Estate

     Our Lawyers not only have a keen understanding of federal and state laws, but also an in-depth knowledge of tribal governance. We work directly with the sovereign tribal government, or on behalf of one, benefit from partnering with our lawyers.  We have an extensive experience and knowledge of Indian law, tribal rights, and the many legal, economic, and cultural issues impacting Native Americans, First Nations peoples, and those doing business with them.  We offer serices to the tribal governments and to those wishing to do business wiht tribal govnerments. in the folowing areas:

• Economic Development 
• Compolaince wiht the appicable laws
• Contracting.Compact wiht the federal govnement
• Memorandums of Understanding
• General Counsel Services
• Govenrnance
• Tax Issues 

     At Benjamin B. Grindstaff, PLLC., our fundamental success as a law firm has been in building quality relationships with our clients. All of our clients are treated with respect for their individual goals and objectives

     We understand that many people who seek the services of a lawyer are not familiar with the legal system. They may wonder if the choices they make are the right ones, often worrying whether or not they are taking actions that will bring the best possible results.

     Our lawyers make sure that you are comfortable with the legal process. We listen to your concerns and answer your questions, providing clear information about the possible outcomes of your case and the next steps we will take.