INSIGHT, INNOVATION, INTEGRITY . . . EVERY DAY

Martindell Swearer & Shaffer LLP has a 100-year history of providing exceptional service to clients around the region in bankruptcy and creditor's rights, litigation and alternative dispute resolution, real estate, estate planning and administration, wills and trusts, business, banking and corporation, education, governmental, public finance and public administration, family law, tax and labor and employment. The groundwork has been laid for another century of superior legal work and client service.

Philosophy
Martindell's principal goals are to provide the highest quality legal services available anywhere; to be an instrumental part of each client's success; and to recruit, retain and advance the brightest legal talent. Our Firm seeks long-term, partnering relationships with clients, to the end of providing the best total solution to the client's legal needs.

Practice Areas

• Litigation:
  Martindell has been recognized for its reputation as a Firm of trial lawyers (not just litigators) by successfully representing companies and individuals involved in high stakes litigation. We are trial-ready with lawyers who have been taking cases to verdict since the early stages of their careers.
  
  
• Business and Tax:
  Martindell lawyers negotiate and close highly sophisticated transactions, representing companies and individuals in a broad range of transactions, including public finance. Martindell's real estate lawyers apply real estate, corporate, securities, partnership and tax law to complex business transactions involving the acquisition, ownership, financing and operation of commercial real estate.
  
  
• Bankruptcy and Creditor's Rights:
  Martindell lawyers regularly represent banks and other creditors in insolvency proceedings. We combine a sophisticated understanding of bankruptcy law with the background and knowledge to litigate complex claims.
  
  
• Estate Planning and Administration, Wills and Trusts:
  Our team of experienced estate planners provides advanced expertise and services in relation to estate administration, probate proceedings, will contests, inter vivos and testamentary trusts, tax planning, guardianships and conservatorships, simple or complex wills and closely-held business planning.

Geographic Reach
Martindell is a strong and dynamic institution with a strategy of sensible, organic growth. As the demand for our services has grown, the Firm has made a commitment to service clients throughout Kansas and surrounding states.

Results-Oriented
Martindell stresses - and clients rightfully expect - good results. To that end, our Firm employs innovative, pragmatic strategies and hard work to ensure that our clients' legal needs are met. We recognize that our success depends on close coordination with our clients, therefore, our lawyers work collaboratively to set objectives, develop budgets and conduct periodic review sessions to measure our progress against those objectives.

Community Service
Our Firm is committed to community service. Our lawyers and staff are active with organizations and boards and seek constantly to improve the quality and richness of life in the communities in which we practice and live.

Technology & Support Services
The Firm makes extensive use of legal and administrative personnel to provide the appropriate skill level for the legal services required by our clients. Martindell keeps pace with today's technology by providing our lawyers, staff and clients with the most advanced technology tools available to facilitate the practice of law.

For more information, please contact us at info@martindell-law.com.