Lee Flaherty's business law expertise includes business formation and succession planning, buy/sell agreements, operating agreements, employment and independent contractor agreements, and diverse business contracts. Her expertise with nonprofit organizations and churches includes entity formation, applications for tax-exempt status and governance issues. Her estate planning practice encompasses a wide range of trusts and other documents to protect assets, preserve control and protect privacy. Her real estate practice extends to most documents required to create, protect or dispose of an interest in real estate.Lee is a member of the Business Law, Probate & Estate Planning and Real Property Sections of the State Bar of Michigan. She has received the highest available peer review rating (AV) from Martindale-Hubbell, the nation's preeminent lawyer review and referral source. She is a Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation, a distinction offered to no more than five percent of the practicing attorneys in Michigan. She is also a member of the Financial & Estate Planning Council of Metropolitan Detroit and was named a dbusiness "Top Lawyer" for 2010 in the categories of estate planning, real estate, and nonprofit and charitable organizations.