Kathleen J. Masterton was for many years the Assistant Attorney General for the Maryland Transit Administration, serving as in-house business and corporate general counsel.  She handled a wide variety of legal matters, including contract negotiation, preparation, review, and enforcement, real estate and land use issues, labor and employment issues and claims, administrative law, police issues, environmental law, licensing issues, civil rights defense, disability rights issues, finance matters, and many others.  She presently represents numerous Maryland small business operations.  Earlier, in the Washington, D.C., law firm, of Donelan, Cleary, Wood and Maser, P.C., she handled extensive regulatory and appellate work  on behalf of such entities as the National Industrial Transportation League, Boise Cascade, Owens Corning Corp., Eureka X-Ray Tube, Inc., McGraw-Edison Company, Cargill, Inc., and the  Iowa Power and Light Company.   Kathleen J. Masterton has many years of experience in all phases of  business law.

The Law Offices of Kathleen J. Masterton, P.C.,  currently provides legal services for business entities in the following areas:

     --Assistance selecting the  appropriate form for a prospective business entity based on personal, business, and tax considerations.

     --Formation and dissolution of business entities, including incorporation (C and S corporations and non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporations), sole proprietorships, general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships and limited liability companies, and family limited partnerships, and joint ventures.

     --Negotiation, preparation, review, and enforcement of contracts and other instruments, including sales and leases, contract to perform services, cooperative agreements, license agreements, agency agreements, employment contracts.

       --Government  relations, including licensing, zoning, and other matters and representation in the Maryland Tax Court.

      --Advice and counsel on a range of general business legal problems, including labor and employment issues.

     --Business-related real estate issues, such as land use designations, zoning et al.

     --Representation in administrative hearings of various kinds, including licensing and other regulatory matters (Ms. Masterton previously served as counsel to the Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings, the independent adjudicator of appeals from State agency decisions).

     --Advice and counsel on employment issues, independent contractors, unemployment insurance issues, workers' compensation claims, and professional liability issues.

     --Assistance in governmental relations.

     --Assistance in relationships with various governing bodies.

     --Legislative advocacy.

     --Mediation or arbitration of business disputes, efficiently and effectively resolving disputes without resort to the cost, delay and acrimony of a protracted and often unsatisfactory court battle in an overloaded legal system.

     --Estate planning geared to the business owner, ensuring that  assets are protected, wealth preserved, business continued, and estate and inheritance taxes minimized  through the use of appropriate legal devices including wills, trusts, family limited partnerships, et al.;

     --Administration of decedent's estates involving business operations.