Legal Services & Lawyers

Caroline is an attorney and strategic consultant who has advised developing companies, entrepreneurs, investors, CXO's and directors on all three coasts and abroad. She guides strategic planning, development, risk assessment and turnaround. This preventive guidance reduces the frequency and costs of transactional disputes, operational crises, and litigation. She helps clients identify opportunities as well as risks, guiding business model and business plan construction and reconstruction, product development, organizational structuring, resolution of personnel/talent matters, and initiation of strategic alliances. In addition to helping companies manage and avoid operational and functional risk, she helps developing companies raise capital, develop commercial contracts, hone presentations, and rationalize the business model and team. Her clients have interests in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Caroline offers dispute and crisis solutions, including internal and external business conciliation, neutral evaluation, guided negotiation, and mediation. She realigns splintered management and guides turnaround.

She offers legal guidance to American and foreign clients in (US) intellectual property, executive employment, executive immigration, environmental hazards, and real property development and usage (DC, Texas and federal matters).

Caroline has worked with several private equity firms, including Thot Capital of New York and Cumulous capital of London. She advised on the development of the UT Health Science Center Biotech Incubator at its outset and was Cornerstone Sponsor and client advisor of the Houston Technology Center. She has taken leadership roles on nonprofit boards and advises directors of nonprofit and for profit boards. She is a member of the NACD, ACG, ABA, AIPLA and MIT Enterprise Forum. Licensed in D.C. and Texas, she is a member of various Bar groups. Her analyses have been published in the Harvard Business Review and elsewhere; please contact her for white papers on topics of interest to you.

Solo practitioner with a passion for Immigration Law who can provide her clients with the best possible representation. Firm offers services in many different areas of Immigration Law, including but not limited to Family-based Petitions, Asylum, Naturalization, Non-immigrant visas (student, work, etc.) and much more.

The Bushman Law Group is a collection of solo practitioners that have identified as our purpose to help the individual personally and professionally. We are there to help you achieve and maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle. We know how important it is to have someone answer your questions and concerns promptly and we will show you with excellent customer service and great care.

The Bushman Law Group offers legal services in many areas. But, please do not think of us as a specialist only law group. We are here to serve your everyday questions and needs. Truly, there is no problem too small. We hope to build a legal relationship that allows you to fulfill your personal and business life to its fullest.

The Bushman Law Group handles various legal fields. One such field is Estate Planning, a much overlooked field. Estate planning is not just for the wealthy, but individuals of all income levels can benefit through early planning. The Bushman Law Group will ask your desired goals and create a plan to meet these needs. Please click on our estate-planning link for more information.

Our Small Business section is another field where we can help. Here, we will assist you in choosing your legal entity form. Some of the different types of legal entities in Virginia are the Sole Proprietorship, C corporation, Limited Liability Company, commonly referred to as an LLC, and the Limited Liability Partnership. We can also get you your tax identification number, draft your operating agreement, and assist in obtaining your business licenses.

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Manuel Rivera & Assciates, P.C. is based in virginia and serves the Washington D.C. Metro area, including Maryland and Virginia and anywhere in the United States and PUerto Rico. The l;egal professionals at Manuel Rivera & Associates, P.C. are available to travel to other countries for interviewing and Visa Porcessing At U.S. Consulates and Embassies. The majority of the firm's practice focuses on Immigration law and it is well versed in all of the most important issues that arise in the burgeoning field of law. Because the firm has a broad range of expertise in many areas of law, it can perform services that many other firms are simply incapable of performing.

English, Spanish, Turkish, French and Italian are all spoken at the firm and the attorneys at Manuel Rivera and Associates, P.C. are dedicated to solving the pressing legal issues facing immigrants in the Washington D.C. metro area and beyond.