Building Central Florida – New Member Profile

Building Central Florida, November, 2005

Pohl & Short, P.A. is a business boutique law firm, focusing its practice on the representation of Florida’s small and mid-size companies. A boutique firm is one with a concentrated practice area, providing high quality legal services at a reasonable rate. A boutique law firm serves as an alternative to the large law firms in which clients often lose a sense of personalized service. At Pohl & Short, most of the attorneys have years of experience in their practice area and handle their cases directly, rather than delegating them to less experienced associates.

Pohl & Short has recently joined ABC to highlight its long-standing representation of the various players in the construction industry, including private developers, public owners, general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, architects, and engineers. Over the years, the firm’s attorneys have handled complex construction matters, including contract drafting and negotiation, scheduling claims, bid protests, terminations, design and construction deficiencies, licensing issues, and lien and bond disputes. James C. Washburn, Esq., an attorney with the firm, is Board Certified in Construction Law, representing The Florida Bar’s highest level of recognition for an attorney’s competency in a particular area of law.

Pohl & Short recognizes that in addition to purely construction-related legal matters, their corporate clients and their principals have issues common to all small and mid-size business owners. The ability to address these other tangential issues - with the personalized service associated with boutique firms - is what makes Pohl & Short the firm of choice for many in the construction industry.

In addition to purely construction related matters, our attorneys practice in the following areas of business law: corporate law, commercial litigation, real estate law, and a combination of probate, tax, estate planning, trusts, and asset protection law.

Pohl & Short’s Business Transactions Department offers sophisticated legal services, drafting documents and providing tax and other regulatory advice regarding the organization, operation and sale of all business entities, both domestic and international.

Our Tax and Estate Planning Department allows our clients to have their personal estate planning and business legal matters met in an atmosphere dedicated to meeting their unique needs, including family business succession planning.

The firm also maintains a Real Estate Department, providing legal guidance on issues such as: commercial land acquisition development, mortgage financing, commercial leasing, zoning and land use, residential real estate, as well as, our own in-house title division.

Pohl & Short’s Litigation Department handles arbitrations, alternative dispute resolutions, mediations, and administrative hearings at the federal, state and local levels.
To discuss how Pohl & Short can serve your legal needs, please contact us at (407) 647-7645 or visit our website at www.pohlshort.com.