Lacy Katzen LLP, Attorneys at Law, is a full service Rochester law firm with satellite offices strategically located throughout the Upstate NY region. Our legal practice extends beyond the Greater Rochester, NY area and also includes metropolitan New York City. Our Rochester attorneys are dedicated to providing superior legal services and counsel to our clients with the highest standards of professional responsibility and business ethics. Practicing law in Rochester NY provides us with the ability to compete on price without compromising the value or zealousness of our legal representation. In fact our flexible and innovative fee structures are part of the value we offer our clients. Our clients are people who come to us at a time of crisis. Whether it's a parent or spouse with deteriorating health, a legal separation issue, an auto accident, a surgical mishap, a bank creditor problem, a business dispute, a zoning issue, or a real estate problem... our Rochester Lawyers are equipped to help. Our clients are businesses and municipalities who come to us to plan for the future. This might involve corporate mergers and acquisitions, business formations, estate planning, estate administration, consulting a tax attorney, planning for business succession, sales and purchase of a house or business or working with Medicaid to protect assets from having to be spent on nursing home care. At Lacy Katzen LLP, our New York business litigation lawyers, investment fraud attorneys and real estate attorneys work seamlessly with our Business Department, Estate Administration and Matrimonial attorneys to achieve the best possible results for our clients. Our team approach affords our litigators the luxury of consulting with our tax attorneys when contemplating a settlement offer in litigation, divorce and family law, business and estate planning areas of the law. We are both proactive and reactive, depending on the client's needs whether they involve contracts, intellectual property, personal finance, commercial real estate, or business code ethics. Our Creditors' Rights and Collections attorneys work with our Litigation and Corporate Departments to provide help in debt collection, bankruptcy cases and foreclosures. Our Estate Planning and Trusts Department performs estate administration, often working with our Real Estate Department to sell properties. They work through wealth preservation issues when an elder is in need of a nursing home. They formulate wealth preservation strategies for estate planning from the inception of the relationship until well after the death of the client, using a variety of attorney skills and legal disciplines.