Corporate · Transactions · Disputes · Intellectual Property
Argue, Points & Tally advises companies, investors, founders, and institutions on corporate matters, transactions, disputes, and intellectual property.
The firm’s work is organized around four connected practices: M&A, litigation, corporate law, and intellectual property. AP&T also maintains a structured employment ecosystem for attorney interest, practice explanation, candidate communication, and hiring-process governance.
Firm
A business law firm with transaction, dispute, and intellectual property practices.
AP&T works with clients on company formation, governance, financing, mergers and acquisitions, commercial disputes, technology and brand assets, and related business concerns.
The firm’s practices are connected by the needs of clients whose legal issues often move across corporate structure, deal activity, ownership rights, business conflict, and intellectual property.
Practices
Practice areas
M&A
Acquisitions, divestitures, strategic transactions, founder exits, portfolio-company transactions, and related deal counseling.
Corporate Law
Entity formation, governance, financing, commercial contracts, board matters, investor relations, and general corporate counseling.
Litigation
Commercial disputes, deal-related disputes, ownership conflicts, contract claims, business torts, and litigation connected to company operations.
Intellectual Property
IP ownership, licensing, technology transactions, brand matters, trade secrets, portfolio review, and IP issues in corporate transactions and disputes.
People
Attorneys
AP&T attorneys work across the firm’s corporate, transaction, dispute, employment, and intellectual property practices.
Employment Ecosystem
AP&T Employment Ecosystem Team
AP&T’s employment ecosystem team demonstrates how a law firm may present practice context, candidate-facing explanation, referral communication, internal review, and hiring-process governance without turning public communication into screening or hiring authority.
The team is organized by function. Open each group to view the person in that person’s Managed Employer Verolex employment-role capacity.
Firm Leadership & Practice Authority
Leadership and practice voices explain firm structure, practice expectations, client-service judgment, and attorney-fit context without independently creating employment authority.
Jordan Tally
Managing partner voice for firm structure, leadership expectations, and institutional judgment.
View Jordan TallyGideon Argue
Founding Partner and Chair Emeritus perspective for institutional history, standards, and strategic judgment.
View Gideon ArgueCynthia Points
Corporate practice voice for governance, business counseling, commercial judgment, and client-facing precision.
View Cynthia PointsElizabeth Hartman
M&A practice voice for transaction discipline, deal judgment, and acquisition-related expectations.
View Elizabeth HartmanNathaniel Hughes
Intellectual-property voice for technology, brand, licensing, and ownership-sensitive practice context.
View Nathaniel HughesOlivia Ramos
Employment Law practice voice for workplace-risk awareness, counseling discipline, and employment messaging.
View Olivia RamosEmployment Messaging & Candidate Explanation
These roles explain interest pathways, attorney-development expectations, professional standards, referral handling, and candidate communication boundaries.
Lauren Simmons
Attorney-development voice for professional growth, integration expectations, and practice readiness.
View Lauren SimmonsWilliam Tran
Counsel-level voice for execution standards, matter ownership, and day-to-day professional judgment.
View William TranJames Calloway
Candidate-facing explanation voice for interest pathways, role context, and disciplined next-step communication.
View James CallowayMaria Chen
Professional standards voice for careful candidate communication, discretion, and structured employment explanation.
View Maria ChenSamantha Patel
Recruiting-process voice for role intake, pathway organization, and pre-screening boundaries.
View Samantha PatelJessica Vaughn
Talent-relationship voice for referral-source communication, candidate interest, and non-authorizing outreach explanation.
View Jessica VaughnInternal Review, Governance & Employment Operations
These roles demonstrate scope control, authorization separation, workflow discipline, internal review, and employment-process operations.
David Sterling
Internal review voice for evaluation separation, authorization discipline, and hiring-process control.
View David SterlingBrian O’Connor
Operations voice for employment workflow, managed process structure, and role-based routing.
View Brian O’ConnorChristopher Bell
Governance voice for scope control, confidentiality boundaries, verification, and authorization rules.
View Christopher BellCareers
Careers at AP&T
AP&T considers attorneys and professionals with experience in M&A, corporate law, litigation, employment law, intellectual property, and related business practices.
Current opportunities and interest pathways are maintained through the firm’s employment process. Public information may explain firm context and available pathways, but it does not authorize candidate contact, screening, evaluation, interview selection, confidential review, or hiring action.
Contact
Contact AP&T
For firm, practice, or employment inquiries, use the appropriate contact pathway. Employment-related communication is handled through the firm’s structured process and does not create candidate approval, screening authorization, interview selection, or hiring commitment.