Automobile Dealer Representation
For over three decades the firm's attorney's have provided legal representation to scores of new and used car and truck dealers on a daily basis. This representation has covered all aspects of a dealership's operation and ownership, including:
- Succession planning
- Environmental matters
- Employment matters
- Floor plan issues
- Factory relations
- Buy-sell agreements
- "Buy Here-Pay Here" banking licenses
- Advertising compliance issues
- Vehicle Safety relations with the NY State Department of Motor Vehicles
- Federal and State odometer roll-back audits
- F & I Compliance issues
- Planning and Zoning issues
Aditionally, the exposure to each and every aspect of a dealership's operations makes the firm's attorneys an invaluable resource with respect to all business and legal issues confronting the day to day operation of a facility.
The firm provides legal representation to dozens of dealers throughout New York and Vermont. As the publishers of the Auto Dealer's Newsletter, the firm gained a reputation of knowing how to assist dealers with virtually any problem presented. Referrals of new clients occurs regularly from existing clients, factory representatives and lenders. Jim Towne has worked at the request of both factory representatives and floor plan lenders to extricate a variety of dealers from the problems presented by a changing economic landscape over the past 30 years. For nearly 10 years Jim was General Counsel to the Capital District Auto Dealer's Association ("CRADA"), now known as "ENYCAR". Jim and his staff devoted hundreds of hours in assisting with the growth and expansion of ENYCAR's nationally acclaimed DEEP Safety and Health Program.
As members of the National Association of Dealer Counsel ("NADC"), the firm has access to the nationwide resources of hundreds of attorneys to assist in any unique circumstance in factory relations or regulatory issues. As an attorney with extensive experience in representing dealers, Jim has co-lectured dealers on charting the waters of New Yorks' advertising guidelines with members of the NY State Attorney General's office.
Prior results cannot and do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome with respect to any future matter, including yours, in which a lawyer or law firm may be retained.