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Practice Areas

Real Estate Law

Our real estate attorneys represent clients in litigation involving the purchase, sale, or lease of real estate, construction disputes with builders, contractors, and subs, in DC, MD, and VA.

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Estate Planning

Whether you need a last and testament, revocable trust, healthcare power of attorney, living will, financial power of attorney, or more complex estate plan our estate attorneys are ready to help you.

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Business Law

From business formation to business litigation to dissolution, our business lawyers are here to assist you with breach of fiduciary duty, shareholder suits, partnership disputes, and contracts.

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Construction Law

Our DC construction law attorneys have represented builders, general contractors and subcontractors, tenants and property owners in construction litigation cases for nearly two decades.

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Business Litigation

No matter the size of your company or industry you are in, our experienced business litigation attorneys are here to help defend and ensure the profitability of your business.

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Trust Administration

Our trust administration lawyers are ready to help you administer your loved ones revocable trust. We also represent clients in trust litigation against trustees and trust fiduciaries.

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DC Probate Law

Our probate lawyers help clients with probate administration and litigation. We have been selected one of DC’s top probate law firms 5 years in a row and have probate hundreds of DC estates.

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Personal Injury Law

Our personal injury attorneys have over two decades of experience fighting for those who have been injured from the reckless or negligent acts of other individuals or businesses.

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Meet Our Attorneys

Peter Antonoplos

Managing Partner

Tel: 202-803-5676

Valerie Edwards

Partner

Tel: 202-803-5676

John Letteri

Partner

Tel: 202-803-5676

Kendal Wilkinson

Paralegal

Tel: 202-803-5676

OUR FIRM

At Antonoplos & Associates, our Germantown law firm approaches the complex legal needs of our clients from a results-driven perspective. Our patrons demand top-rated legal representation on their important business and personal legal matters. Thus, whether your legal needs are focused on estate planning, real estate, probate, trust administration, construction law, or business litigation, our team of experienced Germantown attorneys is ready to guide you through any legal issues you may have. From our law firms’ efforts, our Germantown attorneys are both nationally and locally recognized for their award-winning representation of clients in matters involving Wills & Trusts, Real Estate Litigation, Probate, Trust Administration, Construction Litigation, and Business & Corporate Law. Finally, our firm’s most recent awards include being recognized as one of the top estate planning, real estate, and probate law firms by Expertise and Super Lawyers, while also receiving a perfect 10.0 rating in construction law, probate law, real estate law, and trusts law by Avvo.

Wills & Trusts

For over two decades, Antonoplos & Associate’s team of knowledgeable and experienced estate planning attorneys has represented high net worth individuals, families, and business owners throughout Germantown Maryland. Our attorneys’ goal is to help people throughout Maryland develop wealth by offering estate planning strategies and solutions that achieve their individual goals and maximize the assets that they can pass on to their loved ones.

The most common issues that our Germantown Maryland estate planning attorneys help clients with includes creating a last will and testament, establishing trusts, executing a healthcare power of attorney or financial power of attorney, creating a living will, and making funeral arrangements in advance. As one of the few full-service Germantown law firms, our group of attorneys strive to develop a strong and personalized relationship with each client. From this relationship, we are able to properly prepare and execute documents focused on combating the legal issues that our clients face. Finally, because our group of attorneys has been assisting clients with estate planning matters for over 20 years, we handle the delicate and often emotional decisions that come with creating a will, power of attorney, and funeral arrangements with the care and sensitivity that they require.

Real Estate Law

The Germantown Maryland area has countless residential and commercial real estate opportunities. Furthermore, Germantown has an option for every type of real estate buyer. However, no matter what type of real estate you are interest in, it is critical that you incorporate an experienced real estate attorney before, during, and after this process. Antonoplos & Associates Germantown law office has been consistently recognized as one of the best real estate law firms in Germantown and commonly assists clients with the acquisition, sale, leasing, management, financing and development of office, industrial, retail, and residential real estate projects. Furthermore, our Germantown real estate practice advises investors, property owners, buyers, sellers, lenders, receivers, brokers, landlords, and tenants throughout Germantown on the purchase and sale of real estate.

Even with the help of Germantown’s best real estate attorneys, litigation occurring from property disputes is sometimes inevitable. When litigation does arise, it is even more important that you have someone on your side who has the knowledge and experience required to navigate legal issues. At Antonoplos & Associates, our Germantown real estate litigation lawyers analyze each case, examine our opponent’s strengths and weaknesses, and then attack our opponents in the areas that provide the best opportunities for success. In doing so, we consistently provide our clients with the most efficient path to favorable results in their real estate litigation cases. In some engagements, our Germantown real estate lawyers may decide this means negotiating a deal with creative terms favorable to our client. However, certain conflicts require our real estate attorneys to pursue an approach focused on exposing each of our opponent’s weaknesses and seeing the lawsuit to its fruition.

Probate Law

At Antonoplos & Associates, probate law is one of the most common areas in which we assist clients. The reason why we do so much probate work is because Maryland probate law is extremely confusing. For many people, when a loved one dies, this is the first time that they will experience Maryland probate law. Because of this, people typically don’t know anything about the Maryland probate process and need guidance to navigate probating a loved one’s estate. What makes matters worse is that many people don’t know who to turn to for guidance regarding Maryland probate law, this can often lead to family members fighting, the probate process stalling, and expensive legal conflict. Should a conflict arise between family members, our team of experienced probate attorneys is ready to provide the trusted counsel our clients need. When it’s time to litigate a probate estate, our experienced team of probate lawyers are here to represent your interests and make sure that the probate estate is handled properly and distributed according to the terms of the law.

The Antonoplos & Associates group of Germantown probate attorneys most commonly assist clients with probate petitions and the supporting documents, petitions for appointment of personal representative, preparation of first & final account, notices to creditor, first and final accounting, and preparation of estate tax returns.

Trust Administration

On the opposite side of probate law is trust administration. However, thought trust administration can help avoid costly and time consuming litigation, trust administration can be just as difficult and overwhelming. The complexity of trust administration stems from the combination of complex laws, the amount of assets, and the number of people involved in trust administration. Furthermore, within trust law, there are two types of actors, beneficiaries and trustees. As the trustee, you are responsible for overseeing and distributing assets in the trust in an efficient and cost-effective manner. This requirement of trust administration can be extremely difficult if you are unfamiliar with financial management and the complex trust administration process. For more than two decades, Antonoplos & Associates groups of Germantown trust administration attorneys have advised trustees in all aspects of trust administration, ensuring that our clients distribute trust assets correctly and efficiently while minimizing associated tax burdens. Additionally, our team of trust administration attorneys assists trust beneficiaries if they feel that the trustee did not complete their job correctly or took assets from the trust for self-serving purposes. Finally, our group of Germantown trust administration attorneys most typically work with clients establishing, overlooking, and distributing assets from living trusts, testamentary trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, charitable remainder trusts, qualified domestic trusts, spendthrift trusts, special needs trusts, asset protection trusts, and Totten trusts.

Construction Law

Antonoplos & Associates’ Germantown construction law attorneys have assisted clients of the construction industry for nearly two decades. With our knowledge and experience in the Germantown construction industry, our construction lawyers understand the legal needs of our construction clients. Our Germantown construction attorneys commonly work with property owners, engineers, contractors, subcontractors, and construction company owners. In many cases, the construction contracts we create for our clients will lead to the biggest business deals of their careers. However, we also routinely work with Germantown clients in the construction industry with job site disputes that lead to formal litigation or a form of alternative dispute resolution.

Our Germantown boutique law firm offers a comprehensive list of construction litigation and alternative dispute resolution services. Outside of our litigation services, our Germantown construction attorneys represent clients before, during, and after mechanic’s lien and payment bond claims. Furthermore, Antonoplos & Associates construction law practice includes the negotiation and drafting of construction-industry contracts and related documents in both the private and public sectors. Our lawyers have significant experience in various industrial sectors negotiating and drafting building contracts, design-build contracts, construction management agreements, build-out and renovation agreements, contract specifications, tender documents, equipment purchase contracts, purchase orders, long-term maintenance agreements, performance and payment bonds, parental guarantees, letters of credit, project finance agreements and project close-out agreements.

Business & Corporate Law

Germantown has a thriving business community. Thus, if you are looking to start or update a business agreement in Germantown, the Antonoplos & Associates business & corporate law attorneys can help you form partnerships, limited liability companies, small business, C-Corps, S­-Corps and B­-Corps, startups, nonprofit organizations, and publicly traded companies. Additionally, we strive to eliminate legal issues occurring from the formation of a business, yet when legal issues do occur, we use our business and legal experience to arrive at creative solutions in a cost-effective manner.

Our business & corporate law practice is led by the founder and managing partner of Antonoplos & Associates, Peter Antonoplos who has an MBA from Yale University in addition to his law degree. Led by Mr. Antonoplos, our Germantown law firm has an impeccable reputation working with business & corporate litigation, business succession planning, business start-ups & entrepreneurship, business & corporate transactions, corporations, partnerships & business formations and governance, business valuation & disputes, non-profit organizations, microfinance, regulation D, private placements, and mechanics liens & priority of interest issues.

Antonoplos & Associates Germantown attorneys have a stellar reputation for representing clients with their comprehensive legal needs. In addition, our group of Germantown attorneys have over three decades of experience representing clients in the Germantown, Maryland area in  Probate Lawyer, Estate Planning Law, Real Estate Law, Business Law, Construction Law, and Trust Administration. For more information about our law firm’s range of services or to schedule a complimentary consultation with one of our Germantown attorneys, please feel free to contact our office directly at (202)-803-5676.