LOVE LAW FIRM PLLC

Focus and practice areas

The firm handles business law for start-ups, entrepreneurs, and small to medium-sized businesses. Its clients come from several industries, including arts and entertainment, hospitality, manufacturing, professional services, health care, and technology. The work is transactional and advisory, the kind a company relies on to set itself up and keep running.

The firm organizes its services around four stages of a business: forming a business, running a business, protecting a business, and buying or selling a business. That grouping covers business formation, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, employment law, and corporate governance. In my opinion, sorting the work by a company's life stage makes it easier for an owner to see where their own matter fits.

Each of those stages carries its own legal questions. Setting up a company involves choosing an entity and agreeing how the owners will share control and profit. Once a business is running, contracts and employment matters take over, and governance keeps decisions on record. Intellectual property becomes the focus when there is a brand or a product worth guarding, and a sale or purchase brings a separate round of negotiation and paperwork.

The founder's background

Francine E. Love opened the firm at the end of 2015, and she is its Founder and Managing Attorney. She came to private practice after 24 years working inside companies, six of them with a start-up. That in-house time means she has sat on the client side of the table, which shapes how a lawyer reads a deal and weighs a risk.

Her stated experience covers commercial transactions, corporate fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, and employment law. It also includes privacy, cyber-security, risk management, corporate governance, and business formation. Those areas line up closely with the services the firm lists, so the firm's offerings grow out of work she has done herself.

She studied at Smith College and earned her law degree at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. She is admitted to the New York State bar. Her client history includes single-person start-ups, regional companies with more than a hundred employees, and international firms.

How the team is built

Beyond its founder, the firm names two more people. Maryann O'Keefe is the Practice Director, and Deonna Wade is the Executive Assistant. A team of this size keeps the founding attorney close to the files.

The listed roles suggest a division of labor common in small firms. A practice director handles operations and client coordination, while the executive assistant manages scheduling and correspondence. That leaves the founding attorney free to concentrate on the legal work itself.

For a business owner who wants one steady point of contact, that structure has a clear appeal. As a reviewer, I read it as a firm that keeps its client relationships direct and its overhead manageable.

How the work usually unfolds

Forming and running a company

Business formation typically begins with choosing an entity, such as an LLC or a corporation, and filing formation papers with the state. It moves on to an operating agreement or bylaws that set out how the owners share control, split profit, and handle a partner leaving. Getting these documents right early saves arguments later, which is much of the value in this kind of work.

Running a business brings a steady stream of smaller legal needs. Each new hire calls for an offer letter and a clear set of policies. A growing client base needs standard agreements that can be reused without a rewrite each time. Handling these with the same firm keeps a company's paperwork consistent as it expands.

Contracts

Contracts run through the daily life of a company. Vendor terms, client agreements, leases, and employment offers all take written form, and clear drafting is what makes them hold up if a dispute arises. A business lawyer reviews the language and adjusts the terms before anyone signs.

Mergers, intellectual property, and employment

Mergers and acquisitions follow a longer path. A buyer and seller sign a letter of intent, then work through due diligence, where the buyer examines the target's contracts, finances, and liabilities. A purchase agreement and a set of closing documents complete the deal. Intellectual property work often runs alongside, since trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets are frequently among the assets that change hands.

Protecting a company leans on intellectual property and steady governance. Trademarks guard a name or logo, and copyrights cover created work, both of which a firm can register or license. Employment law shapes how a company hires and manages staff, through offer letters, handbooks, and worker classification. Corporate governance keeps the company's decisions documented as it grows, which matters most when new investors or buyers start asking questions.

Where the firm works

Uniondale sits on Long Island, a short distance from New York City. As a company grows, its filings and disputes can cross county lines, and a firm with regional reach can follow the work. The firm works with clients across the New York City metropolitan area, Long Island, Westchester, and upstate New York.