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Alik Segal, Esq. |
(310) 367-3626 Fax (310) 943-0342 Alik_Segal@hotmail.com |
I am an attorney specializing
in advising owners, investors and executives of small and medium-sized
companies and non-profit organizations.
In my work, I address both business and personal legal issues facing
entrepreneurs including business planning, estate planning, and divorce
mediation.
- Starting, buying, financing, investing in, running
or selling a business frequently involves getting through a labyrinth of
tax and other legal rules. I help
entrepreneurs find the simplest, most logical, and most economical path
toward reaching their goals.
- For artists and members of the helping
professions—healthcare, social services, education, and religion—the
simplest and most logical path frequently leads to non-profit
organizations. Many entrepreneurs
can choose to conduct business either as a for-profit or as a nonprofit
corporation. Making the correct
choice opens unique opportunities and tips the scales in the direction of
success.
- Focused on business success, entrepreneurs
frequently overlook their personal needs. However, many of my clients report
feeling more satisfaction after estate planning -- planning for retirement
and arranging to provide for a spouse, young children, or ailing parents
-- than after solving a business problem.
My clients tell me again and again that after having done
retirement and estate planning, they begin to see a new meaning in their
daily work. They understand why
they fight so hard, and for whom.
- Marriage, family, and children are some of the
sweetest parts of life. Yet too
frequently a bitter divorce battle happens when spouses realize that they
have incompatible values, clashing personalities and should have never
married. Unfortunately, the
institution of confrontational divorce is the norm in our society. Much like an international arms dealer
grows rich by selling weapons to the warring parties, the confrontational
divorce takes on a life of its own.
It enables divorcing spouses to act on their feelings of pain and
rage to further injure and traumatize each other. Children, like civilians trapped in a
war torn city, always suffer in a family broken by divorce. The confrontation escalates like a chain
reaction, and legal bills grow from tens to hundreds of thousands of
dollars. Divorce mediation offers
separating couples the chance to work with a neutral third party -- the
mediator -- to resolve differences, find solutions, and divorce peacefully.
Couples considering separation or divorce should discuss mediation while
they are still speaking to each other.