Practice Areas

The North Creek Law Firm is proud to represent leading businesses, organizations and individuals in the areas of:

Corporate Counsel 

• General Counsel to privately held businesses
• Purchase and sale of assets, real estate and privately held companies
• Counsel for clients on investments in existing and newly formed businesses and funds
• Corporate Finance
• Insurance Coverage
• Labor and Employment
• Business Succession
• Health Care: Practice management, billing and privacy issues, partnership and employment matters

• Business Litigation
• Real Estate and Land Use Litigation
• Civil Rights and First Amendment
• Defense of Administrative Hearings
• Internal Investigations and Crisis Management

• Counsel to home-builders, developers and landowners
• Formation and management of real estate investment LLCs and limited partnerships
• Foreign investment in U.S. commercial and residential projects
• International Real Estate acquisitions and sales
• Counsel to Landowners and Tenants in government acquisitions of property (including Eminent Domain)
• Residential and commercial Landlord-Tenant, lease preparation, negotiation and review
• Representation of individuals and organizations in HOA and Boundary Line matters
• Over $100 million in real estate transactions
• Negotiated and gained local government support for development agreement to preserve over 50 acres of critical watershed
• Created comprehensive agreement for private and municipal utilization of wetlands mitigation banking instruments
• Drafted pre-annexation agreement providing for improved development potential with enhanced design standards and parks

• Successfully challenged campaign finance prosecution of initiative campaign and secured $250,000 civil rights settlement for client
• Drafted and defended statewide initiatives
• Successfully defended ethics complaints filed against elected officials
• Provided strategic counseling to defeat an effort to tax services provided to the elderly and infirm
• Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure counsel to trade associations, corporations, legislative caucuses, elected officials and statewide campaigns