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Your Family Attorneys:

• Estate Planning: To minimize estate and income taxes and probate costs and to plan for nursing home care, we will advise you of the benefits of wills, living trusts, powers of attorney, health care proxies, life estates, living wills, gifts and guardianships.
• Real Estate: If you are buying, selling, building or refinancing a home, consult with us before you sign the contract of sale or commitment.
• Personal Injury: If you are a victim of a car crash, work, farm, motorcycle, boating or construction accident; slip and fall; defective product; medical or dental malpractice or dog bite, consult with us before you speak with the insurance company. You pay no legal fees until there is a recovery.
• Probate and Estate Administration: We help the executor or administrator settle the estate, including all Surrogate's Court and estate tax proceedings. We also provide representation for objectants in will contests.
• Criminal/Traffic: If you are accused of shoplifting, Driving While Intoxicated, a traffic or criminal violation, misdemeanor or felony in town, village, city, county, Supreme or Federal Court, contact us before you speak with the police or appear in court.
• Marital & Family Law: Divorce, separation, child support, annulment, prenuptial agreements, paternity, child custody, Family Court Proceedings, name changes and adoptions.

 
Your Business Attorneys:

• Corporate & Business Advice: Incorporation, partnership agreements, limited liability companies, shareholder agreements, contracts, litigation, employment matters, franchises and the sale and purchase of a business.
• Commercial & Investment Real Estate: Leases, zoning, evictions, condominiums, townhouses, purchase and sale of commercial and investment property, real estate tax assessment reduction, and mortgages.
• Not-For-Profits Formation and advice to charitable organizations, condo associations, service clubs, professional associations, foundations, mobile home tenants' associations, homeowner's associations, animal rescue organizations, churches, hospitals, sports clubs and credit unions.

 
Attorneys

ROBERT FRIEDMAN is admitted to all New York State Courts (1979) and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York (1979). He received a B.A. in 1975 from S.U.N.Y. Buffalo and a Juris Doctor in 1977 from Hamline University School of Law. Mr. Friedman is Clarence IDA Attorney, Akron Village Prosecutor and former hearing officer for Supreme Court, Small Claims Assessment Review, Clarence Town Prosecutor (1985 - 2004) and Clarence Town Attorney (1998 - 2003). He is the author of The Upstart Small Business Legal Guide, How to Survive Legally as a Landlord and Personal Injury Litigation Guide, co-author of How to Form Your Own "S" Corporation and Avoid Double Taxation and columnist for the Buffalo News. 2003 Western New York Prosecutor of the Year. Legal Advisor for the Clarence Rotary Foundation and the Apartment Council of Western New York. E-mail Robert: rfriedman@legalsurvival.com

MICHAEL H. RANZENHOFER is admitted to all New York State Courts (1980), the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York (1980) and the U.S. Supreme Court (1985). He received a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in 1976 from S.U.N.Y. Albany and a Juris Doctor in 1979 from S.U.N.Y. Buffalo. Mr. Ranzenhofer has been an Erie County Legislator since 1989, Erie County Legislature minority leader (1993 to 1995 and 2004) and majority leader (2003), Meals-on-Wheels Task Force member, Erie County Industrial Development Agency Board of Directors (2002-2004) and S.U.N.Y. Buffalo Health Services Institutional Review Board of Directors (1998 - 2002). E-mail Michael: mranz@legalsurvival.com

FRED FRIEDMAN, Of Counsel, is admitted to all New York State Courts (1955), U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York (1956), U.S. Supreme Court (1961) and the U.S. Tax Court (1963). He received a B.S. in Accounting in 1950 from New York University and a Juris Doctor in 1954 from Brooklyn Law School. Mr. Friedman formerly was a Family Court Hearing Officer, Akron Village Attorney and Chairman of the Committee of Law and Public Safety of the Erie County Charter Review Commission. He has been Austrian Consul for Western New York from 2002 to 2006.

Community and Professional Organizations:

Friedman & Ranzenhofer, PC participates in the Akron Chamber of Commerce, American Bar Association (Real Property/Probate/Trust, and General Practice Sections), Apartment Council of Western New York, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Buffalo Business Network, Clarence Chamber of Commerce, Erie County Bar Association (Real Estate, Justice Courts, Surrogate's Court, Municipal Law, Negligence and Matrimonial/Family Law Committees), Genesee County Bar Association, New York State Bar Association (Real Property, Elder Law, General Practice, Municipal, Family and Matrimonial Sections), New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Western New York Trial Lawyers Association, Rotary Club of Clarence, Prosecutor's Association of WNY and Western New York Chapter of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York.

 
Special Services & Fees Information:
Our law firm features the following services for your convenience:

• Personal Service: All cases are personally handled by Mr. Robert Friedman or Mr. Michael H. Ranzenhofer.
• House Calls: We will visit you for a consultation if you are homebound or hospitalized.
• Flexible Office Hours at Your Convenience: Our offices are open days and evenings Monday through Saturday by appointment.
• Toll-Free Phone Access: If you're out of town and need to contact us, you can call us toll free at 1-800-729-4571.
• Public Service Pamphlets: Know your legal rights and responsibilities. In addition to the information available at this website, you can ask us for free pamphlets on: landlord/tenant law, wills, real estate closings, legal fees, reducing your property taxes, automobile accidents, Small Claims Court, your rights if arrested, divorce, successful debt collection, and adoption.
• Charge Cards: We accept MasterCard, Visa and American Express
• Guaranteed Satisfaction: We guarantee that as a client of Friedman & Ranzenhofer, P.C. you will receive cost-effective legal services delivered in a timely manner.

Our Fees At our initial meeting we will discuss with you the type of fee (flat fee, contingent fee or hourly fee), what costs and disbursements will be incurred, whether a retainer deposit is necessary and our billing procedures. We encourage you to ask questions about the fee or anything else regarding your case.

You can meet with our attorneys at any of our five convenient locations:

AKRON OFFICE 74 Main Street P.O. Box 31 Akron, NY 14001-0031 see map BATAVIA OFFICE 113 Main Street PO Box 327 Batavia, NY 14021 (716) 343-0746 see map BUFFALO OFFICE 70 Niagara Street Buffalo, NY 14202 see map

WEST SENECA OFFICE 404 Center Road West Seneca, NY 14224 see map   WILLIAMSVILLE/CLARENCE OFFICE 8203 Main Street Suite 4 see map Phone Numbers / E-mail Addresses: Toll Free Number: 1-800-729-4571 Akron: (716) 542-5444 Buffalo (716) 631-9999 Batavia (585) 343-0746 Williamsville/Clarence: (716) 631-9999 West Seneca: (716) 631-9999 Fax Number: (716) 542-4090 E-mail: rfriedman@legalsurvival.com