Practice Areas

McMillan Metro, P.C. practices throughout Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., guiding small, mid-sized and national businesses, as well as individuals in the following areas:

Our firm's alternative dispute resolution attorneys are experienced in providing to their clients methods other than litigation to solving their conflicts. Through negotiation, mediation, and arbitration, all parties involved are offered approaches other than litigation to resolve their cases. Because litigation can often times be very expensive and time consuming, it is beneficial to partake in alternative methods of resolution to resolve disputes.

Our law firm engages in all forms of business related disputes and controversies, claims involving contracts, notes and guaranties, violations of restrictive covenants, misappropriation of trade secrets, corporate litigation, director, stockholder and partner disputes, derivative suits, construction litigation, and more.

Our lawyers have represented both landlords and tenants in a wide array of leasing matters, including, reviewing, drafting and negotiating documentation for a wide variety of leases. For each lease, we deal with the economic terms, protections for different parties, insurance, and many other considerations.

Our attorneys assist clients with business formation, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, business disputes, commercial transactions, license agreements, intellectual property, business bankruptcy counseling, franchise law, and many other matters.

The firm has a unique and growing education law practice. We serve as general counsel to a number of independent schools and education-related nonprofit entities. We also assist school teachers, administrators and Board Members as well as students and parents in obtaining the best education possible.

We represent employers, employees, and groups of employees in both litigation and non-litigation matters such as employment contracts, manuals and training, wage and hour compliance, employee profit-sharing and equity reward plans, severance plans and agreements, restrictive covenants, and more.

We assist individuals with wills, bypass and disclaimer trusts, QTIP trusts, revocable trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, advance health care directives, powers of attorney, probate of wills, estate administration, counsel for personal representatives, guardianships, adoptions, and other issues.

We represent developers and builders in transactions, contract negotiation, dispute resolution, tax-free transfers, acquisition and development contracts, financing packages, commercial settlements, title analysis and counsel, easements and subordinate rights, consumer sales contracts, and more.

If you are considering entering into a marriage or a committed relationship, and have substantial assets, the potential for a significant inheritance, children from a prior marriage, or have significant liabilities, the pre and post nuptial agreements, domestic partnership agreements or tenancy in common agreements are essential documents which will protect your financial and legal interests and the interests of your spouse or partner.

In today's complex and uncertain economic, business and regulatory climate, nearly all business transactions, arrangements, and entity formations raise Federal and state tax issues and concerns. McMillan Metro's attorneys have the depth of experience and expertise necessary to help you and your business navigate among the various choices to find the path that best achieves your goal.

McMillan Metro's attorneys in the Technology Law group serve as general counsel to small and mid-sized companies providing them with strategic advice and services. Through our general counsel program, our business clients find that they have easy access to knowledgeable lawyers who have committed themselves to learning specific areas of law and providing assistance in numerous legal areas.