About
Michael Smith advises clients with taking off new agencies, with buying and selling companies, with negotiating contracts, with resolving inner disputes a few of the proprietors of companies, and with defensive the rights of corporations and enterprise proprietors thru litigation. He is especially skilled in growing and advising restricted liability groups (or LLCs). His practice additionally consists of tax exempt, nonprofit agencies, inclusive of 501(c)(3) s. He additionally represents customers in appeals, both civil and crook, and in searching for submit-conviction treatments. Mike has served as an accessory professor on the Indiana University regulation college in Indianapolis, and he frequently teaches persevering with education courses for different attorneys, paralegals, and accountants. He has published the Indiana Business Law Blog, https://businesslaw.handponist.com/blog/, because 2009.
Mike turned into born and raised in Tennessee, however he has been a Hoosier for maximum of his lifestyles. He moved to Indiana in 1978 after receiving a B.E. in chemical engineering (summa cum laude) from Vanderbilt University to paintings for Eli Lilly and Company in Lafayette, Indiana. In 1989 he enrolled in regulation school whilst continuing to work full time at Lilly, obtaining a J.D. (summa cum laude) from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 1993. He then moved to the Lilly Law Division, operating first inside the Environmental Law Group, after which in Securities and Commercial Transactions. While he become within the Law Division, he prepared and led the Lilly Law Divison Pro Bono program. In 2008, he retired early to open a business regulation practice in Fishers, Indiana, at the start referred to as Michael Smith Law Office, LLC and later as Smith Rayl Law Office, LLC. In 2018, he and his associate, Susan Rayl, joined with attorneys Joel Hand, Rachelle Ponist, and Valerie Horvath in forming Hand Ponist Horvath Smith & Rayl, LLC. His recreational interests include backpacking and woodworking with hand equipment.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Securities Law
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Limited Liability Companies
- Nonprofit Organizations
Costs
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Payment With Credit Card
Visa, MasterCard, Discover
Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Partner
Hand Ponist Smith & Rayl, LLC
2018 - Lawyer
Hand Ponist Smith & Rayl, LLC
2008 - Adjunct Professor
Indiana University School of Law -- Indianapolis
2010 - Contract Lawyer
Community Development Law Center
2009 - Adjunct Professor
Indiana University School of Law -- Indianapolis
2009 - Lawyer/Counsel
Eli Lilly and Company
1993
Educations
Graduation year: 1989
Graduation year: 1980
Graduation year: 1974
