Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation

Crain Caton & James provides first-class service combining integrity and exceptional value to its clients. Comprised of experienced attorneys across a broad range of practice areas, the Firm provides legal counseling and client-focused solutions locally and around the world.

Founded in 1912 as Kennerly & Warnken, Crain Caton & James has grown into a stable law firm of over 40 lawyers and their highly-qualified support staff without a merger.

Our attorneys, are recognized for their contributions to the legal community, including: practice expertise, publication of standard legal texts, and presentations to both legal and lay audiences. Many of our attorneys are recipients of recognition awards from the state and local bar associations.

Today, our clients turn to us for legal counsel on:

• business transactions involving: land; commercial; industrial and residential real estate, and the development thereof; minerals in place; upstream, midstream and downstream energy assets, including liquefaction and export facilities; entity formation, capitalization and governance; tax planning; advice and compliance; merger, acquisition, consolidation and disposition of going concerns; and estate planning for transition of family-owned businesses;
• estate and wealth planning including: business succession planning; prenuptial, postnuptial and cohabitation agreements; will and trust preparation;
• estate and trust administration, and guardianship;
• estate and trust litigation;
• conduct of those in fiduciary positions, such as business directors, trust administrators, guardians and executors, particularly in connection with claims of malfeasance or financial exploitation;
• environmental law, compliance, investigation, remediation, and management of environmental risks;
• financial services, lending, compliance, and regulation of banks and other lending entities;
• bankruptcy and creditors’ rights;
• non-profit entity operations;
• intellectual property matters, including patent prosecution and litigation, registration and protection of trademarks, trade names, proprietary information, copyrights, trade secrets, and franchising; and
• litigation services, involving all of the practice areas, and including employer/employee relations, insurance coverage and claims, construction claims and disputes, hospital management, and risk management.

About Client Service

First-class client service requires customization, not commoditization. The attorneys and staff members at Crain Caton & James strive to know how each client defines client service. Does the client want a phone call, email, a written memo or in-person meeting? How often does the client want to receive status reports? How long can the client wait for a response? We recognize the path to the result is as important as the actual result.

Crain Caton & James does not have a big budget for advertising. We receive our work from client retention and referrals which makes client service of utmost importance to our people. Our attorneys and staff members work as a team. So, when an attorney is in trial or closing a deal and unable to return a client call, there is always another person who can return a call.

Feel free to try us and experience a firm where client service and value form its core.