HOME | PRACTICE | ABOUT | NEWS | RESOURCES |CONTACT   Practice Areas Shannon Lovins is an Asheville civil litigator practicing in the areas of personal injury litigation, employment law, construction law, contract law, automobile lemon law, whistleblower litigation, collections and civil appears in state and federal courts.  Shannon also has a small general practice and provides services to clients relating to trademarks and copyrights, simple estate plans, and homeowner association issues. What does a Civil Tort Litigator Do?: Personal Injury: A personal injury lawyer provides legal representation to people sufering injures due to the the negligence someone else. Employment & Civil Rights Law: Employment and Labor law addresses the legal rights of working people and their employers. Civil Rights Law addresses protections prescribed by federal and state constitution of with regard to certain freedoms.   Construction Law: Construction law at its essence relates to the performance of obligations as prescribed by contracts relative to a construction projects. Lawyers help identify potential sources of trouble in the contract structure, and to present options for preventing problems. Contract Law: A contract is a legally binding agreement. Almost everyone makes contracts of some sort every day.  Contract law is based on the Latin phrase pacta sunt servanda (pacts must be kept).  Laws provide for remedies to breaches of contract. Lemon Law: Lemon laws are laws that protect consumers who purchase cars that repeatedly fail to meet minimum standards of performance. These cars are called lemons. The federal lemon law (the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act) protects citizens of all states, along with indvidual state lemon laws. Whistleblower Laws and Litigation Resulting from Right Behavior: Whistleblower laws include wide variety of federal and state laws protect employees who call attention to violations, help with enforcement proceedings, or refuse to obey unlawful directions.  Legal protections vary according to the subject matter of the whistleblowing, and are interdependent on laws of the state in which the acts occur.
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	Real Estate Litigation: Real estate disputes:  I can assist you in resolving and curing conflicts that arise from the purchase and sale of real estate and land use. Collections: Coming soon. Civil Appeals: In law, an appeal is a process for requesting a formal change to an official decision.  Very specific procedures must be followed for appealing a case to an appellate court. An appellate court is a court that hears cases on appeal from another court, and are generally relative to errors of law, fact, or procedure. Trademark & Copyright: A trademark is a type of intellectual property, and typically comprises a name, word, phrase, logo, symbol, design, image, or a combination of these elements. Copyright – symbolized "©" – gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time. Simple Estates: Coming soon!

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