"The Family Business Legal
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THE FAMILY BUSINESS LEGAL GROUP

Balancing family and business

Owners of family businesses face the same challenges as any entrepreneur, things like building a management team, growing the business and facing competition. But family-owned businesses face other unique challenges: the interplay of personal issues with business matters, defining various members’ roles in the business, balancing the financial rewards of family members active in the business with the interests of those outside the business, and avoiding tensions between family and non-family employees.

Over the years, the Family Business Legal Group (FBL Group) members Ken Luer, Joan Velazquez and Reeve Chudd have represented all types of family businesses, from start-ups to well-established companies that are leaders in their markets. Ken, Joan and Reeve combine their broad expertise and their special perspective to guide you and your business through all the challenges you will face, working with you and your other advisors in areas that are crucial to operating a family business.

Ken, Joan and Reeve have practiced together for over 25 years and have combined expertise in corporate and business law, tax, financing, real estate and estate planning. Their broad experience is supported by the full range of Ervin, Cohen & Jessup’s resources. ECJ is one of Southern California's premier law firms, serving family-owned businesses and other entrepreneurial clients with practical, hands-on advice and representation for the full range of their legal needs. For more information about our representation of family-owned businesses in Los Angeles and throughout California, contact us.

Famous Families in Business:
THE HEARST FAMILY
William Randolph Hearst took over management of the San Francisco Examiner after his father had accepted the newspaper as payment for a gambling debt. On its pages, he eagerly attacked municipal and financial corruption wherever he found it, even going after companies in which his own family had an interest. Hearst’s colorful life was captured, fictionalized and immortalized in Orson Welles’ epic movie, Citizen Kane.