Michael F. Dowley & Associates is committed to providing the highest quality legal services to clients in an affordable manner. We represent clients in a wide array of legal matters and offer personal service to the residents and businesses in the greater Middletown, CT area. This firm handles a variety of matters ranging from zoning projects and real estate, to business law, and estates.
The legal system can be stressful and confusing at times, which is why Michael F. Dowley & Associates is here to help you navigate through it. We will give you the peace of mind and confidence you need during troubled times. Your needs are put first.
Our Law Practice Areas Include:
MASTER PROJECT PLANNING, ZONING AND DEVELOPMENT
- Coastal area management, inland wetlands, coastal wetlands, zoning and subdivision approval for a large development on a peninsula in Long Island Sound.
- Combination of grant and private funding for mixed use for profit and not-for-profit organizations.
- Successful regulatory applications for various Connecticut WalMarts and Home Depot.
- Extensive industrial and residential subdivisions.
- Planning of the first and second Planned Unit Developments in Middletown in the late 1960s and 1970s.
- Local, state and federal approval work for a massive commercial-industrial riverport project where a fresh water quarry was to be connected with the Connecticut River in the early 1990s.
- Rezoning of an Interstate Hotel and Office Complex in the 1980s.
- Rezoning and development for Elder Citizens complex in the 2000s.
- Development of the City of Middletown's downtown hotel complex
REAL ESTATE - COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL
- Acquisitions, mortgage financing, and leases
- Counseling
- Development, construction, and management
- Environmental law and regulation
- Local, state and federal regulatory approvals
- Sale / leaseback transactions
Our firm counsels developers, investors and lenders involved in residential, commercial and industrial real estate projects. Our attorneys have counseled clients involved in hotel property acquisitions, sales of corporate headquarters, construction of new office buildings, shopping center development and industrial and non-profit ( IRS Section 501(C)(3) entities ).
Our residential closing department handles over 300 transactions each year representing individual buyers and sellers as well as subdivision developers, banks and title insurance companies. Jean Anderson, Office Manager and Paralegal in charge of the closing department, has worked for the firm since 1981. Should you have any questions concerning the closing process, feel free to contact Jean.
BUSINESS SERVICES
- Business planning and structuring
- Contract negotiations and drafting
- Creation and maintenance of corporate, limited liability company, and joint venture organizations
- Franchising structures and businesses, negotiations and transactions
- General corporate and business representation
- Health care law
- Loan workouts and bank issues
- Intellectual Property audits
Our clients span a broad range of business activity, from various medical groups, financial, general manufacturing, construction, and service businesses to such growing industries as computer hardware and software, and robotics. We have represented financial institutions and banks, assisted lenders and borrowers in structuring and negotiating complex financing agreements and documenting transactions.
EMPLOYMENT
- OSHA and safety concerns
- Privacy issues, including drug testing
- Reduction in employees and severance issues
- Wrongful discharge and at-will employment issues
TRUSTS, ESTATES AND ELDER LAW CONSULTING
The trusts, estates and elder law section have a long history of counseling individuals and families in estate planning and administration. Efficiently combining trust and estate development and administration with effective tax planning is essential to a comprehensive approach to meeting the legal needs of families, particularly those owning closely-held businesses. The close attention to client family development in various businesses has assisted business and asset transition from grandparents to parents, children and grandchildren.
BUSINESS LITIGATION
Our firm represents business clients in litigation regarding real estate transactions, employment contracts and disputes over the sale of goods and businesses in which claims of misrepresentation have been made.
The range of our business litigation includes:
- Business torts
- Construction litigation
- Contracts
- Finance
- Landlord / tenant litigation
- Management and partnership disputes
- Product liability and warranties
- Professional malpractice
- Trade Secret and Intellectual Property protection
- Environmental issues
DEFENSE AND INSURANCE LITIGATION
A portion of the firm's current litigation practice is devoted to defense of negligence and other claims on behalf of insured, self-insured, and uninsured parties.
INDIVIDUAL LITIGATION
The Law Offices of Michael F. Dowley & Associates has a long and successful history representing individuals injured through the conduct of others.
Because of our reputation in this field, the firm receives referrals from other attorneys in the region with whom we share our expertise, resources and research capabilities in the representation of injured parties. Overall, the firm has broad experience in:
- General individual tort claims
- Medical malpractice
- Personal injury claims
- Wrongful death actions
Visit these helpful links – Connecticut Judicial Branch website, City of Middletown, City of Middletown Department of Planning, Conservation and Development, Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce, Town of Portland, and Town of Cromwell.
Contact Michael F. Dowley & Associates today at 860-347-9987, or browse our website for more information about meet the attorneys or zoning projects.
