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PREMISES LIABILITY
Description:
Business clients are represented in a wide range of commercial litigation, in state and federal court, arising from breach of contract, fraud and general business disputes. The Firm is also engaged by insurers to defend cases involving death, personal injury and property damage arising in connection with premises, products, vehicular and professional liability. Firm attorneys have experience in defending manufacturers and distributors of motor vehicles, electrical appliances and equipment, chemical and industrial products, medical devices, drugs and other industrial and consumer products. Firm attorneys also have extensive experience in the defense of toxic tort claims brought against refineries, waste disposal firms and manufacturers of chemical products. The Firm also has attorneys with training and experience in the mediation of such claims.

Practice Area Attorneys:
Fred D. Dreiling

PRODUCTS LIABILITY
Description:
Business clients are represented in a wide range of commercial litigation, in state and federal court, arising from breach of contract, fraud and general business disputes. The Firm is also engaged by insurers to defend cases involving death, personal injury and property damage arising in connection with premises, products, vehicular and professional liability. Firm attorneys have experience in defending manufacturers and distributors of motor vehicles, electrical appliances and equipment, chemical and industrial products, medical devices, drugs and other industrial and consumer products. Firm attorneys also have extensive experience in the defense of toxic tort claims brought against refineries, waste disposal firms and manufacturers of chemical products. The Firm also has attorneys with training and experience in the mediation of such claims.

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PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY/DIRECTOR AND OFFICER LIABILITY
Description:
Business clients are represented in a wide range of commercial litigation, in state and federal court, arising from breach of contract, fraud and general business disputes. The Firm is also engaged by insurers to defend cases involving death, personal injury and property damage arising in connection with premises, products, vehicular and professional liability. Firm attorneys have experience in defending manufacturers and distributors of motor vehicles, electrical appliances and equipment, chemical and industrial products, medical devices, drugs and other industrial and consumer products. Firm attorneys also have extensive experience in the defense of toxic tort claims brought against refineries, waste disposal firms and manufacturers of chemical products. The Firm also has attorneys with training and experience in the mediation of such claims.

Practice Area Attorneys:
Fred D. Dreiling

REAL ESTATE (AGRICULTURAL LAW; CONSTRUCTION LAW; NATURAL RESOURCES LAW; ENVIRONMENTAL LAW)
Description:
OHM represents landowners, developers, lenders, landlords and tenants, architects, engineers and contractors in all types and all phases of real estate transactions. Firm attorneys are experienced in the negotiation and documentation of residential, commercial and agricultural real estate matters, including owning and operating, buying, selling, leasing, developing/building and financing office buildings, shopping and strip centers, hotels, condominium conversions (residential and office), planned unit developments, residential subdivisions, farm and ranch properties, golf courses and recreational vehicle parks. Additionally, the Firm frequently provides counsel to family-owned farms, cattle ranchers, producers and processors and farm cooperatives, gins and grain elevators. OHH also has a firmly established natural resources law practice. The Firm represents landowners and oil, gas and mineral producers in the exploration and development of oil, gas and mining properties. As part of this representation, the Firm regularly advises clients with respect to environmental law, liability and compliance issues.

Practice Area Attorneys:
Michael A. McCauley

REAL ESTATE LITIGATION
Description:
The firm represents property owners in litigation involving real estate title issues.

Practice Area Attorneys:
Michael G. Morris
Fred D. Dreiling

TAXATION AND TAX LITIGATION
Description:
OHM advises businesses and individuals on federal, state and local tax law, liability, strategy and regulation. Clients of the Firm include C-corporations, S-corporations, professional corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, disregarded entities, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, non-profit organizations and foundations, estates and trusts. Firm attorneys have extensive expertise in income, estate, sales and margin tax, exempt organizations, retirement plan matters (including ESOPs), and employee benefits tax matters. The Firm also litigates tax matters in the federal and state courts, including the U. S. Tax Court.

Practice Area Attorneys:
Gerald W. Ostarch

TOXIC TORT LITIGATION
Description:
Business clients are represented in a wide range of commercial litigation, in state and federal court, arising from breach of contract, fraud and general business disputes. The Firm is also engaged by insurers to defend cases involving death, personal injury and property damage arising in connection with premises, products, vehicular and professional liability. Firm attorneys have experience in defending manufacturers and distributors of motor vehicles, electrical appliances and equipment, chemical and industrial products, medical devices, drugs and other industrial and consumer products. Firm attorneys also have extensive experience in the defense of toxic tort claims brought against refineries, waste disposal firms and manufacturers of chemical products. The Firm also has attorneys with training and experience in the mediation of such claims.

Practice Area Attorneys:
Fred D. Dreiling

VEHICULAR LIABILITY
Description:
Business clients are represented in a wide range of commercial litigation, in state and federal court, arising from breach of contract, fraud and general business disputes. The Firm is also engaged by insurers to defend cases involving death, personal injury and property damage arising in connection with premises, products, vehicular and professional liability. Firm attorneys have experience in defending manufacturers and distributors of motor vehicles, electrical appliances and equipment, chemical and industrial products, medical devices, drugs and other industrial and consumer products. Firm attorneys also have extensive experience in the defense of toxic tort claims brought against refineries, waste disposal firms and manufacturers of chemical products. The Firm also has attorneys with training and experience in the mediation of such claims.

Practice Area Attorneys:
Fred D. Dreiling

WILLS, TRUSTS, PROBATE AND ESTATES
Description:
OHM advises individuals, families and fiduciaries (individual and corporate) on a wide variety of estate and trust administration issues. Firm attorneys have significant experience in creating basic to complex wills, trusts and other gift, asset transfer and estate planning devices, and in handling probate proceedings. The Firm also counsels representatives of estates, trusts and investment companies in connection with administrative, tax (including Estate, Gift and Generation Skipping Transfer taxes), litigation (including contested wills, trusts and estates) and investment issues.

Practice Area Attorneys:
Gerald W. Ostarch
Michael A. McCauley
Michael G. Morris

(361) 884-1961
FAX: (361) 889-5100