Practice Areas

White-Collar Criminal Defense

We have significant experience investigating and defending allegations of white-collar crime. If you’ve been charged in a criminal case your future is in danger. You need an attorney who will aggressively defend you by investigating your case, gathering evidence to support your defense and analyzing the legal challenges available to attack the prosecution’s evidence. 

Seiden Law Group has successfully represented clients facing allegations of health-care fraud, bank fraud, mail fraud, securities fraud, commodities fraud, mortgage fraud, criminal antitrust cases, wire fraud and mail fraud, money laundering and counterfeiting.

No fight is more important than the fight for your freedom and the future of your family.

Sale / Possession / Delivery of Controlled Illegal Substances

It is the prosecution’s burden to prove you guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.  A defendant is not required to prove their innocence.  We fully litigate your case to determine all evidence against you and investigate whether there is any basis to suppress that evidence.  

These cases have taken us all over the United States to both state and federal jurisdictions. We work with clients facing difficult predicaments and lengthy prison sentences: cocaine trafficking; synthetic marijuana smuggling; conspiracy to sell methamphetamine. If you can imagine it, then we have likely represented a client with such a case.  

These cases usually involve a Federal court and unlike other litigation firms, we have a great degree of familiarity with that system and a high level of success in those courts, both through trial and/or negotiation.

Commercial / Civil Litigation

Seiden Law Group, PC. has represented clients in all manners of commercial disputes and brought cases to many of the highest courts in the country including the the United States Court of Federal Claims, the United States Tax Court and the Illinois Supreme Court. The President of our firm, Glenn Seiden, is licensed to argue cases before the United States Supreme Court. Seiden Law Group has significant experience and a successful track record with commercial and civil cases in federal, state, appellate and administrative courts. Our philosophy for litigation is to move quickly for trial while recognizing the anxiety that our clients experience as a result of the process. We tend to pursue a speedy trial at a lower cost for our clients and to force the opposition to a settlement decision or go to trial. The spectrum of our litigated cases includes all kinds of controversies arising from commercial disputes. We handle administrative matters, arbitrations and mediations, and represent clients in administrative proceedings. We also represent clients at disciplinary hearings before federal and state regulatory agencies. 

Immigration

Immigration law is a highly-specialized and politically-charged field. Seiden Law Group, PC has enjoyed great success in solving the immigration needs of many clients for proper status by keeping up with America’s evolving Immigration laws. The passage and enactment of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has broadened possibilities for illegally arriving immigrant youth to secure citizenship. Our clients receive the most up-to-date and accurate information on immigration policy and regulations.

General Business Law

We represent clients in all aspects of business transactions including general corporate matters, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, commercial finance, start-ups and venture capital projects. We provide support to a wide range of clients to assist them in launching new businesses or implementing existing business plans. We help manage your legal requirements including negotiating and documenting general contracts, financing agreements, employee contracts and consulting agreements. We organize new corporations and limited liability entities including their capitalization, share subscriptions, shareholder agreements, employment agreements and the negotiation of joint ventures.We also represent clients who buy, sell or restructure businesses that acquire assets and raise money for new investments. We guide our clients through complex transactions including mezzanine financing, asset-based lending and sales and leasebacks. We also prepare private placement memorandums and the preliminary teasers that assist our clients in syndicating funds for their acquisitions. In addition, we maintain basic corporate information, advise companies on the ever-changing legal developments at the local, state and federal levels and provide sound and timely business counsel.

Real Estate

We represent developers, investors, borrowers and brokers when acquiring, structuring, financing, refinancing, leasing and developing commercial real estate including hotels, office buildings, shopping centers, mixed-use facilities, condominiums, multifamily housing projects, retail strip centers and health-care facilities. We also handle commercial and residential real estate purchase, sale and lease transactions, zoning and condemnation matters including short sales and acquisitions through foreclosure. While representing both landlords and tenants, we handle all types of leases from ground leases to apartment leases. In addition, we help developers buy and convert buildings to condominiums. We also provide assistance to clients undertaking structured deals and syndications or setting up 1031 (like-kind) exchanges where property is exchanged in a tax-free basis.

Employment & Labor Matters

We work with employers on a full range of employment and labor matters, which include negotiating and preparing employment agreements, drafting of employee handbooks and manuals, consulting on personnel policies, independent contractor arrangements, severance packages and the protection of proprietary information. We counsel and educate our clients on at-will employment issues, new employment laws, required documentation and record keeping policies. We also explain the necessary procedures to utilize in employee counseling and termination, maintain employee diversity policies, sexual harassment training and other employment-related issues. If litigation or alternative dispute resolution become necessary, we will defend our clients from employment claims, discrimination or sexual harassment allegations, wages and hourly disputes, wrongful termination disputes, and other employment and labor-related lawsuits before local, state and federal agencies, or if necessary, defend our clients in court.

Forfeitures

We have significant experience investigating and defending criminal, civil, and administrative asset forfeitures resulting from property seizures by law enforcement agencies. If your property has been seized by state, local, or federal law enforcement and you want it returned, you need an attorney who will represent your interest for the return of your property by aggressively acting to secure the return of your property as swiftly as possible.

Seiden Law Group, P.C. has successfully represented clients on a number of occasions for the return of property in criminal, civil and administrative forfeitures and have had their property returned. On various occasions, we were even successful at recovering the fees. If you are a law firm, we will represent your client and continue to have your participation in the process as well.