Herndon, Morton, Herndon & Yaeger is located in Wheeling, West Virginia and provides a full range of legal services in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Our clients can be confident that their legal matters will be handled promptly, professionally and discreetly. We have a firm of responsive attorneys knowledgeable and experienced in a wide variety of practice areas.
Although we are a firm of general practice, we have significant concentration in the following areas:
Trusts, Estates and Wealth Preservation
Estate and Trust Administration
Corporate & Business Law
Tax
Energy (Oil, Gas & Coal)
Employment
Pensions and Benefits
Litigation Relating to All of the Above Practice Areas
Trusts, Estates and Wealth Preservation
We help individuals and families plan ahead to preserve wealth, reduce tax exposure, and ensure assets are transferred according to their wishes.
- Estate, Trust and Asset Protection Planning
- Multi-Generational Planning
- Charitable Planning
- Elder Law and Medicaid Planning
- Special Needs Planning
- Powers of Attorney and Advanced Directives
- Estate and Trust Administration
- Representation of Corporate and Individual Fiduciaries
- Fiduciary Accounting
- Pre-Nuptial and Post-Nuptial Agreements
- High Net Worth Domestic Relations
Estate and Trust Administration
Our attorneys guide executors and trustees through the administration process with care, efficiency, and close attention to legal and tax requirements.
Corporate & Business Law
We counsel businesses on formation, governance, compliance, and ongoing legal matters that support stable growth and sound decision-making.
- Corporations, Partnerships, Limited Liability Companies (LLC’s) and S-Corporations
- Formation and Compliance
- Business Structures and Tax Planning
- Business Agreements and Commercial Contracts
- Business Succession Planning
- Bank Transactions
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Corporate Sales, Acquisitions and Other Transactions
Tax
We provide comprehensive tax counsel for individuals and businesses, including individual taxation, estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxation, partnership and other pass-through entity taxation, as well as tax planning related to employee benefits and retirement funds.
- Individual Taxation
- Estate, Gift and Generation Skipping Taxation
- Partnerships and Other Pass-Through Entity Taxation
- Employee Benefits and Retirement Funds
Energy (Oil, Gas & Coal)
We represent energy clients in the negotiation and enforcement of lease agreements, well pad surface use agreements, and right of way agreements, while also monitoring royalty payments, pursuing recovery of unpaid royalties, and handling oil and gas litigation when disputes arise.
- Lease Agreements
- Well Pad Surface Use Agreements
- Right of Way Agreements
- Monitor Royalty Payments and Recovery of unpaid Royalties
- Oil & Gas Litigation
Employment
We advise and represent employers on all aspects of employment law, including day-to-day employment counseling, employment contracts, handbooks and workplace policies, severance agreements, and employment litigation.
- Employment Advice and Consulting for Employers
- Employment Contracts, Handbooks and Policies
- Severance Agreements
- Employment Litigation
Pensions and Benefits
We counsel employers and fiduciaries on pensions and retirement plans, plan governance and fiduciary responsibilities, including employee stock ownership plans and non-qualified deferred compensation plans.
Litigation Relating to All Practice Areas Including
We handle litigation across a wide range of matters, including banking and financial services disputes, employment contract and non-compete matters, communications and media defense such as defamation claims, trusts and estates disputes, tax controversies, and insurance coverage issues.
- Banking & Financial Services
- Employment (Contracts & Non-Competes)
- Communications and Media (Defamation Defense)
- Trusts & Estates
- Tax Controversies
- Insurance Coverage