Manufacturing

Our Clients

We regularly provide legal counsel to a number of small to large manufacturing companies in the operation of their diverse businesses, which include:

• shopping carts
• store fixtures and displays
• restaurant kitchen equipment
• water treatment systems
• wire and cable manufacturers
• metal products and materials, including copper and aluminum tubing, custom- machined forgings
• railroad tank cars
• heavy-duty truck trailers and fifth wheels
• modification of OEM trucks, including conversions to all wheel drive, brake and suspension system modifications, and components for the after-markets
• screws and other fasteners
• vibrating conveyor systems
• overhead garage doors
• silkscreen imprinters of sportswear
• glove manufacturer (protective industrial gloves;  utility gloves for consumers)

Contracts

Typical assignments include drafting of (or analysis and suggested revisions to):

• Supply agreements, including requirements contracts and outsourcing agreements (domestic and overseas sources of supplies)
• Purchases and leases of production equipment
• Bailments / warehousing / consignment arrangements
• Distributorship agreements and commission agent agreements (some may provide exclusivity as to products or territories, based upon meeting defined sales/purchase goals)
• Terms and Conditions of sale, including warranties, indemnifications, product recall provisions

Our Objectives

• Unambiguous, "plain English" agreements, understandable by the operating personnel who are directly involved in the implementation and administration of the  agreements
• Agreements that make economic sense for both parties
• Dispute resolution provisions that promote resolutions made directly between the parties on commercial terms, without resort to litigation or to arbitration.