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601 Terrace Street Muskegon, MI 49440
Located at the end of Terrace Street right on Muskegon Lake.
Assistant: Farrah K. Starr
Paralegal: Nancy L. Price
Chris joined the firm in 1985, the year he graduated from law school. For 40, Chris has represented clients in all types of business and real estate matters and transactions.
In his business practice, Chris advises clients on a wide range of matters. He has organized hundreds of business entities. Chris and the Parmenter Law team help the business with contracts and other documents essential to its operations. Many of the transactions involve a business client wanting to buy, sell, lease, or obtain financing.
Chris also represents many clients in real estate development projects, including residential subdivisions, commercial sites, strip centers, and shopping malls. The work includes developing an extensive, detailed step-by-step plan for the project — and then executing it, beginning with creating the development company and extending through sales of lots or negotiation of commercial leases.
A focus of his commercial leasing work involves representing landlords and tenants. He has completed projects all over Michigan as well as in other states, including Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. Chris and the entire Parmenter Law team work with a sense of urgency throughout a project.
In his practice, Chris takes an approach that is focused on detail but at the same time imbued with a unique sense of urgency in meeting the client’s needs. His strengths include finishing everything he starts and fulfilling every promise he makes to complete a task within a specific time frame. Clients appreciate his ability to break down and explain complex legal situations in terms that clients can understand.
Chris co-manages Parmenter Law with Anna Urick Duggins. He embraces the firm’s values of honesty, character, enthusiasm, loyalty, fairness, passion, and fun. Chris is a hands-on manager and an optimist who always encourages others and generates positive energy. Together, Chris and Anna focus on creating a firm culture of trust, respect, cooperation, collaboration, transparency, and inclusion, eliminating many of the traditional law firm organizational restraints. The collaborative team approach is a central tenet of the firm. Providing practical solutions for clients and addressing the whole context of a client’s needs are among the firm’s core values.
Outside the office, you’ll most likely find Chris on the golf course, in his boat or at his little cabin on the river.
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