Our firm's reputation is built upon our experience and focus. We have been serving clients since 1978, providing legal services primarily in the areas of business law and wealth management.  As attorneys with business legal experience spanning three decades, we are pleased to work with entrepreneurs, business owners, and franchise owners. We enjoy the vitality and energy of our clients. This is what has drawn us to provide legal services in this focused area.

Business owners usually want cost effective solutions, not legal positions that lead to polarization and the loss of business deals and transactions. A transaction should never fall through because of attorneys advocating positions that create adversity. Rather, a lawyer should always seek solutions that will allow transactions to be consummated and problems to be resolved.

Our primary focus has been, and remains, to serve businesses and business owners. This narrow focus allows us to take our knowledge base deeper, to offer a broader range of business legal services, to address our clients' needs on a more specific level.

Contact us today if you need legal assistance with any of the following:

• Business Formation & Organization
  • Formation of Limited Liability Company
  • Incorporations
  • Shareholder Agreements
  • Operating Agreements
  • Registered Agent Services
  • Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business Formation
  • Women, Minority and Disadvantaged Owned Businesses
• Franchise Law
• Commercial Contracts
  • Purchase and Sale Agreements
  • Non-Compete Agreements
  • Employment Agreement
  • License and Technology Agreements
• Commercial Lease Preparation and Review
• General Corporate Legal Services
• Buying & Selling Businesses
• Asset Protection

Building a successful business involves creating a solid organizational foundation and relationship with our clients, to address critical legal matters affecting stability, business formation, commercial contracts, commercial lease agreements, and employment law issues. When conflicts do arise, our mediation, dispute resolution and litigation practice is designed to help you solve problems. Our approaches are creative, effective and, above all, cost-effective. We have helped large, established businesses as well as new companies swiftly and amicably solve problems that can slow down business.

We have represented a variety of clients during all stages of business development, both start-ups and established businesses. We have guided and worked with companies who have been selected to INC Magazine's Fastest Growing 500 list and those of have sold to international conglomerates. Our expertise in assisting companies through the acquisition and sale process, allows business owners to achieve its objectives.

Our approach is to establish long-term business relationships with you, our clients. We want you to think of us as the law firm you turn to for your transactional business matters, to discuss potential legal issues before they become problems, and to resolve issues that have become problems. We want you to focus on your business, assured that our firm is working toward solutions that address your specific concerns, priorities and goals.  Let our focused approach define your solutions to ensure your business success

If you or a loved one needs the help of an experienced Fairfax, Virginia business lawyer, call Robert Baumgartner today at 571-335-0887, or complete the contact form provided on this site to arrange your free initial consultation.

Professional Profile

If you or a loved one needs the help of an experienced Fairfax, Virginia business lawyer, call Robert Baumgartner today at 571-335-0887, or complete the contact form provided on this site to arrange your free initial consultation.

Hale Carlson Baumgartner, PLC   
10511 Judicial Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: 571-335-0887
Hours: M-F, 8:00AM-5:00PM
After hour appointments available
Serving clients in Northern Virginia, Fairfax City, Fairfax County, Loudoun County, Prince William County, City of Alexandria, Arlington County, Vienna, Oakton, Burke, Chantilly, Centreville, Sterling, Annandale, Leesburg, Manassas.

Attorney Scott W. Pohlman

Scott Pohlman represents businesses, business owners and individuals in Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York and is licensed to practice in all three states. He has served as General Counsel for a large Washington DC-based commercial sub-contractor. Businesses and business owners are the clients he want to serve.

Scott Pohlman currently serve on the board of LawPact (www.LawPact.org), an international association and network of independent business law firms created to assist member firms in pursuing excellence in: client service, firm management, profitability, the application of evolving technologies and marketing, and establishing a trans-national source of known legal colleagues to serve the global legal needs of member firm clients. So we too, seek to improve our business performance, just like our clients.

Jurisdictions:

• Virginia
• New York
• Pennsylvania

Education:

•  Ithaca College, 1993
• Widener University School of Law, 1996

Admitted To The Bar:

• Virginia, 1978
• New York, 1999
• Pennsylvania, 1996

Professional Memberships and Achievements:

• LawPact Board Member
• Fairfax Bar Association
• Virginia Bar Association

Attorney Robert B. Baumgartner

Robert B. Baumgartner represents businesses, business owners and individuals in the greater Washington D.C. area and is licensed to practice in Commonwealth of Virginia and District of Columbia. He has helped form, grow and represent businesses of all sizes, seeing his role as general counsel to all of the businesses that retain him.

Jurisdictions:

• Virginia
• Disctrict of Columbia

Education:

• Wittenberg University, 1973
• Xavier University, 1975
• University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law, 1978

Admitted to Bar:

• Virginia, 1978
• Disctrict of Columbia, 1994

Professional Memberships and Achievements:

• Fairfax Bar Association
• Virginia Bar Association
• President, Greater Fairfax Chamber of Commerce
• Present, Lord of Life Lutheran Church

Reported Cases:

• APAC v. Jenkins (Bankruptcy WDVA, 93 (BR 1984))
• In re Rosenfeld, 23 (F.3d 1833)
   

Verdicts & Settlements

• APAC v. Jenkins (Bankruptcy WDVA, 93 (BR 1984))
• In re Rosenfeld, 23 (F.3d 1833)