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The Harrisburg office of Eckert
Seamans is a full service provider of legal services to its local and national
clients. Strategically situated in the state capital, our Harrisburg
attorneys adeptly represent clients in such areas as civil litigation, corporate
and public finance, securities, business organizations and commercial
transactions, real estate, land use, estate planning, bankruptcy, insurance
business and compliance and government relations. The
Harrisburg office represents a wide
variety of clients both from central
Pennsylvania and throughout the
country, including manufacturers, financial institutions, multinational
corporations, closely held and privately traded corporations, industrial and
commercial developers, municipalities and public authorities, professional
groups and associations, nonprofit organizations and individuals.
Because of its location, the
Harrisburg office is well situated
to represent clients daily in dealings with the
Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania's executive and
legislative branches of government. Drawing on experience gained from
holding key positions in
Pennsylvania government, our
attorneys routinely handle legislative, regulatory and administrative matters
before the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, the Pennsylvania General
Assembly and executive branch agencies such as the Departments of State,
Transportation, Community and Economic Development, Insurance, Revenue and
Environmental Protection, as well as the Securities Commission.
The firm's Harrisburg attorneys
have extensive litigation experience in both the state and federal courts, as
well as before many state, federal and local government administrative agencies.
The office's trial attorneys handle all types of litigation including
complex business and commercial litigation, product liability cases,
injunctions, environmental litigation, securities litigation, insurance
litigation, employment-related litigation, intellectual property cases, real
estate and land use litigation, class actions and personal injury defense.
Harrisburg lawyers practice in all
federal and state courts in
Pennsylvania, and have handled
cases in courts in most of the 50 states. The
Harrisburg office, also, has an
active Appellate Court practice, both in the state and federal court
systems.
In the area of municipal finance, the
Harrisburg office is a leader in
central Pennsylvania, representing
municipalities, school districts, public agencies, authorities and health care
service institutions in major debt financing projects. The office smoothly
and professionally serves clients on all types of public financing mechanisms,
including tax increment financing and debt related derivative products, for an
array of projects, including water and sewer systems, municipal buildings and
public infrastructure, parking facilities, airports, schools, housing and
redevelopment programs, solid waste disposal facilities, hospitals, nursing
homes, retirement facilities, industrial facilities and business
improvements. Further, the firm's Harrisburg attorneys render
state of the art advice on the intricacies of refinancing public debt.
The Harrisburg office serves the
business objectives of its clients by offering a full range of business
organization/dissolution, commercial transaction, land use, real estate and
title insurance services.
Harrisburg's corporate department
attorneys take great pride in their responsiveness to clients and in their
creative legal solutions to meet the demands of today's global market in which
their business clients are operating. The office provides legal advice to
assist clients with structuring innovative transactions and entities, to
organize and counsel corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited
liability corporations (LLCs) and partnerships (LLPs), business trusts and other
forms of business enterprise. The corporate practice at Eckert's
Harrisburg office emphasizes the
provision of timely and cost effective legal representation to accomplish the
business needs and objectives of its clients, while avoiding legal
pitfalls. The Harrisburg
office offers services in estate planning, ERISA and other matters involving the
transfer and preservation of assets.
In addition, the Harrisburg
office provides insurance business and regulatory compliance counseling to a
broad range of clients, including property and casualty, health, life and
reinsurance companies, third party administrators, premium finance companies,
agencies and brokerages. The firm advises on a wide variety of insurance
matters such as insurance department filings in all 50 states covering insurance
products, licensing, rates and related forms, negotiation of mergers and the
acquisition of blocks of insurance business, corporate restructuring and the
evaluation and implementation of regulatory compliance procedures.
Attorneys advise insurers, agencies, third party administrators, premium
finance companies and other insurance entities in administrative proceedings and
appeals nationwide, and assist in the drafting and review of insurance-related
contracts. As former Insurance Department Counsel,
Harrisburg’s attorneys, also, have
firsthand experience in handling claims and providing guidance in insurance
company receiverships (liquidation and rehabilitation).
The Harrisburg office of Eckert
Seamans is structured to meet the needs of its clients and to serve a constantly
expanding client base. Moreover, the office is supported by the total
resources of Eckert Seamans' firm-wide complement of attorneys in all practice
areas and several hundred support staff in major metropolitan areas throughout
Pennsylvania and along the Eastern seaboard.
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