Overton Law Firm Practice Areas

The Overton Law Firm provides legal representation in four primary areas: business litigation, business law, employment law, and personal injury law. Additionally, individual attorneys assist with other legal matters such as products liability, real estate, disputes, professional licensing, business break-ups, construction law, and business counseling.

Business Litigation and Counseling: The Overton Law Firm represents a broad range of corporate clients, from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses. Whether your company’s problem involves significant financial transactions or complex procedural issues, our lawyers will work with your management team to develop a strategy to achieve your business goals. Our collective experience and team approach to business litigation can protect your company’s interests in business litigation, negotiations, mediation, or arbitration.

Employment Law — Employers: The Overton Law Firm provides counseling to corporate clients ranging from closely-held businesses to Fortune 500 companies on such issues as severance, stock options, non-competition agreements, overtime pay, employment contracts, Department of Labor investigations and union issues. Our attorneys have in-depth experience and are recognized as creative problem-solvers and strategists.

Personal Injury Lawsuits: Our Colorado personal injury attorneys are highly experienced in helping people who have been seriously injured and the families who have lost loved ones in motor vehicle collisions, industrial accidents, or from using dangerous or defective products. We have reached successful resolutions through trial and settlement for clients with serious head injuries, back and neck injuries, and other traumatic injuries.

Employment Law Employees: The Overton Law Firm’s trial attorneys represent business executives and managers in employment litigation. The Overton Law Firm provides counseling to business executives on such issues as severance, stock options, non-compete agreements, terminations, and employment contracts. The Overton Law Firm’s attorneys focus their strong analytical and communication skills on practical and effective resolutions to employer and employee disputes.

Business Services: Starting and running a successful business requires skill, stamina, and passion. Keeping a business running requires access to resources, including the guidance of a good business lawyer. At the Overton Law Firm, our business attorneys provide legal counsel and courtroom representation both to Fortune 500 and privately-held businesses of all kinds. Each of our three attorneys possesses more than 20 years of hands-on legal experience in business law. Contact our Denver law office to schedule a consultation.

Litigation Services: If you have a claim to make, or if claim has been made against you, we offer a low-cost initial consultation to help you decide the best course of action for your business or company. Contact our Denver law office to meet with a trial attorney.

Motor Vehicle Accidents: If you or a family member has suffered serious injuries in a car or truck accident along I-70, I-25, I-76 or any other Colorado roadway, you may be facing months of physical recovery and rehabilitation, on top of a stack of medical bills, and no income to pay them because you can’t work because of your injuries. At the Overton Law Firm in Denver, our car accident attorneys know how to work with insurance companies. The insurance company will try to get you to settle your claim quickly, often before all the facts are known. As your advocate in negotiations or in court, we will assist you in settling for the full value of your auto accident case.

Product Liability: The trial attorneys at The Overton Law Firm in Denver, Colorado have helped many people injured by dangerous and defective products. Poor design, manufacturing defects, shoddy workmanship, and hazardous materials can all result in a dangerous product which can cause serious injury and death.

Enforcing Contracts: Contracts are at the core of a company’s business agreements, whether in writing or verbal. When the terms of a contract are breached or when questionable and unanticipated contract interpretations cause disputes, the financial impact and strain on a company can be significant.

Non-Payment for Services or Goods: We represent clients in non-payment for services or goods matters and contract performance disputes regarding a variety of unique situations. Perhaps a business owner pays a vendor to deliver goods but the vendor fails to deliver or delivers an inferior quality product. Whatever your situation, you can be assured that we can help.

Non-Compete Agreements: At The Overton Law Firm, in Denver, Colorado, we are knowledgeable in matters concerning non-compete agreements and misappropriation of confidential information by former employees or business partners.

Enforcement of Insurance Agreements: Has your insurer denied a property damage claim or a disability claim that you believe should be covered under your individual or corporate insurance policy? At The Overton Law Firm, in Denver, Colorado, we make insurance companies pay according to their casualty, disability or other policy agreements. We take a common sense approach to resolving problems; yet we are not afraid to provide aggressive courtroom representation when necessary.

Misappropriation of Confidential Information: Colorado has specific laws that differ from other states laws in matters concerning misappropriation of confidential information. Each situation is different and needs to be evaluated on an individual basis.

Business Formation: Starting and running a successful business requires skill, stamina, and passion. Keeping a business running requires access to resources, including the guidance of a good business lawyer.

Business Contract Law: The success of your new business will be dependent upon a variety of contracts that structure your commercial transactions. We advise business owners on all matters relating to their legal and commercial transactions, drafting:

Business Dissolution: When your business has run its course, The Overton Law Firm can help you end a partnership or dissolve a corporation or LLC, resolving issues of money and control. Allow us to work with you or your management team to resolve your business concerns.

Insurance Policy Review: At The Overton Law Firm, in Denver, Colorado, we make insurance companies pay according to their casualty, disability or other policy agreements. We take a common sense approach to resolving problems; yet we are not afraid to provide aggressive courtroom representation when necessary.

Representation Before Professional Licensing Boards: When should you contact an attorney about a regulatory or professional licensing issue? Immediately. If you have received a notice or a letter from the administrative board of the regulatory agency that governs your profession, it is essential you take the notice seriously and take action to protect yourself against damage to your reputation or potential loss of livelihood.

Partnership or Shareholder Disputes: Internal conflict among partners and shareholders can threaten the very heart of a business. These disputes most often occur years after a partnership agreement or corporation bylaws have been created and signed. They arise out of changing interests, conflict over a business direction, personal problems and other issues. How the partnership dispute or other conflict is resolved can often be critical to the survival of your business.

Real Estate Litigation: We are trial attorneys who regularly resolve real estate problems for a broad mix of clients, including commercial property owners, developers, construction companies, investors, contractors and subcontractors, homeowners and others.

Copyright & Trademark Litigation: Whether the name of your company has been stolen by a larger corporation, your image has been used without authorization in an advertisement, or the writer’s credit for a song you wrote has been claimed by someone else, we can help. At The Overton Law Firm, we are trial attorneys who work hard to protect your interests across a broad range of intellectual property matters and other business and commercial concerns, which threatens to undermine your business.

Employment Counseling & Litigation: The attorneys at The Overton Law Firm in Denver have extensive experience resolving diverse matters in Colorado employment law for both employers and high-level employees. Our firm is recognized for its creative problem-solving and sound, strategic action in finding practical and effective resolutions to employment law matters.

Construction Litigation: How can you protect your investment or defend yourself against serious construction disputes?

The Overton Law Firm, in Denver, Colorado, regularly protects the rights of contractors, owners, engineers, developers and others involved in construction litigation that spans virtually all areas of construction law. Our litigation practice includes pursuing or defending claims for clients dealing with:

Contact our Denver law office to schedule a consultation with a Colorado trial attorney at the Overton Law Firm. We offer free initial consultations in personal injury and wrongful death cases. Call 303-832-1120.