Professional Experience
Phil’s practice is concentrated on business transactions and estate planning.
On the business front, Phil represents both large and small business clients. He handles business acquisitions and sales, business formations and dissolutions, prepares and reviews a wide variety of contracts, resolves disputes, and provides general advisement as outside general counsel.
When it comes to estate planning, Phil has experience drafting wills, trusts, and other estate planning documents, as well as providing individuals and families with advice as to nursing home and Medicaid planning.
Phil enjoys the opportunity to get to know his clients and to assist them with achieving their objectives.
Prior to joining FGKS Law, Phil worked for a law firm in Dayton. He and his wife, Jodi, both natives of St. Henry, have three children and reside in Tipp City.
Publications
- Hold the Salt: Should Non-Genuine Applicants be Treated as Employees Under the NLRA? Toering Electric Co., 351 N.L.R.B. 18, 2007 WL 2899733 (Sept. 29, 2007), 77 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1247, 1250 (Spring 2009), available here.
Notable Cases Argued in Ohio Courts of Appeals
- Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. TIC Acropolis, LLC, Second District Court of Appeals, 2016-Ohio-142
Practice Areas
The core of the FGKS Law practice is the counseling of businesses of all sizes on a wide range of corporate and commercial issues, including formation, contracts and other operational issues, and short-term and long-term business and succession planning. Read more here.
FGKS Law counsels and represents clients in all planning, evaluation, and implementation phases of business acquisitions, divestitures, and mergers. The purchase or sale of a business, and the organizational and operational issues that relate to that transaction, require a particular skill set and level of experience that our attorneys possess. Read more here.
FGKS Law counsels individuals with respect to their estate and other life planning needs, such as asset preservation and distributions through wills and trusts, and guardianships and powers of attorney. We also represent clients with respect to estates and other matters pending before probate courts. Read more here.
FGKS Law advises and represents clients with respect to all matters involving residential and commercial real estate and related improvements, including transfers, leases, development, easement and land use restrictions, financing, annexation, zoning, title defect issues, mechanic’s liens, and foreclosure proceedings. Our title agency, Western Ohio Title Agency, in consultation with our attorneys, handles title searches, real estate closings, and the issuance of title insurance commitments and policies. Read more here.
Education
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Science
Juris Doctorate
Community Leadership
Current board member and allocations chair
Current board member and member of executive committee
Volunteer coach
Council member
Past board member