The Porter Law Firm, LLC, located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, provides expert legal services to corporations, small businesses, and individuals.  The firm has extensive experience in a wide range of legal areas including: Estate Planning, Elder Law, Probate Administration, Guardianship/Conservatorship Law, Business and Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Banking and Finance, Contract Law, Commercial Real Estate Transactions, Property Law, and Municipal/Government Law.

     We provide a wide variety of services to our clients from drafting simple and complex wills, revocable living trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, special needs trusts, durable powers of attorneys, and living wills to guiding clients through the estate settlement and probate process.  In addition, we also advise clients on elder law issues such as long term care planning and medicaid planning.  Our firm assists family members with the legal issues surrounding coping with the death or mental illness of a loved one.  We represent people with Alzheimer's disease and Dementia, as well as those families who have a child with special needs such as Autism, Bi-Polar Disorder, Depression and severe ADHD.  In addition, we assist clients with the process of probating and administering an estate.  These services include opening the estate with the Probate Court, completing the necessary forms, creating new deeds, negotiation with creditors, and initiating Determination of Heirs suits in the event that a decedent passed away more than 10 years ago.  The firm also represents individuals in obtaining a Guardain or Conservator who can act on behalf of incapacitated individuals who are unable to care for their personal, financial, and/or property management needs.  Lastly, we represent individuals and families in Heirs' Property proceedings in order to clear the title to land which is otherwise nontransferable.

     In addition to Estate Planning, Elder Law, Guardianship/Conservatorship Law and Probate Law, the firm represents a variety of business clients from assisting in selecting the type of organizational entity under which to operate, preparation of agreements, sale and purchase of businesses, obtaining financing and funding for business operations, and employee relations, to dissolution.  In addition, we advise our clients about directors' and officers' liability, franchising, reorganization, trade association membership and activity, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, business successions, and shareholders' rights.  Our firm also assists depositors, lenders, and borrowers in accordance with intricate state and Federal banking statutes and regulations.  We have experience in lending and secured transactions, loan workouts, mortgages and foreclosures, public finance, state and municipal bonds and financing, venture capital, and international banking matters.  Our clients include borrowers, commercial banks, credit unions, saving and thrifts, and holding companies.