Thank you for visiting our website! I’ve been an attorney with Ferguson Widmayer & Clark PC since 2017. I work in a variety of practice areas, all of which relate to helping local families and their businesses. My work primarily focuses on:

  • Business law. This includes forming new companies, drafting operating agreements and buy-sell agreements, reviewing and drafting contracts (e.g., consulting contracts and franchise agreements), and succession planning. I’ve also helped many local families with buying and selling their businesses. These deals have ranged from simple buyouts among business partners to multi-million-dollar acquisitions by national corporations.
  • Real estate. I help client buy and sell real estate. This includes efficient review and assistance with residential or condominium sales, as well as complicated commercial real estate deals. I routinely draft real estate purchase agreements, deeds, and mortgages. I also help clients create LLCs to hold and manage their real estate investments.
  • Tax matters; nonprofits. I assist clients with tax-planning for their businesses and estates. I’ve also helped organize many nonprofit tax-exempt entities and routinely advise on compliance with IRC 501(c)(3). I also assist taxpayers with their controversies (or possible controversies) with the IRS.
  • Estate planning. I help families formulate and draft estate plans (including wills, trusts, and powers of attorney) that work for their needs.
  • Qualified plans. I work with Warren Widmayer and Nadia Selim Little on qualified plans and ERISA matters, with a focus on ESOPs. In recent years, my work has included advising ESOP sponsors on plan distribution rules and repurchase liability, as well as drafting and negotiating complex documents for ESOP transactions involving exempt loans.

Since the fall of 2023, I’ve served as assistant adjunct clinical professor at the University of Michigan Law School Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic. We assist low-income taxpayers with their matters and debts before the IRS. In the Clinic, I try to teach my students a basic lesson about lawyering: the law is first and foremost a service profession. While I enjoy solving the legal puzzles my clients present, my priority is serving my clients and ensuring they feel heard and taken care of. This aspect of service is fundamentally why I became, and enjoy, being a lawyer.

Thank you again for your interest. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions!