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Cozza Law Group PLLC C***a Law Group provides quality, high caliber legal services for our clients. C***a Law Group PLLC
510 Washington Avenue
Carnegie, PA 15106

Our mission is to provide quality, high caliber legal services for our clients with an emphasis on building long-standing relationships to help them grow their businesses and be their trusted advisor. Our practice areas include corporate, entertainment, employment, health care, cannabis, contract, and trademark and copyright law. My areas of focus include, but are not limited to:

-Entity formations (C Corp, S Corp, LLC)
-Contract drafting and review
-Lease drafting and review
-Trademarks
-copyrights
-Non-compete agreements
-General business advising
-Employee issues
-Outside general counsel services (usually on a flat-fee basis)

If you would like to discuss your issues and determine if I may be of assistance, please email me to schedule a time to speak or call direct at 412-294-8444.

Not every legal question arrives with a deadline, a dispute, or a giant red flag attached to it. Sometimes it is a new a...
10/16/2026

Not every legal question arrives with a deadline, a dispute, or a giant red flag attached to it. Sometimes it is a new agreement someone wants to run by counsel, a hiring decision that raises a question, or a business change that feels important enough to talk through before moving ahead.

That is part of the value of an ongoing counsel relationship: the lawyer already knows the business when those everyday questions show up. Instead of waiting until every issue becomes urgent, owners have somewhere to bring the decisions that naturally come with running and growing a company.

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When a business relationship breaks down, it is easy for the disagreement itself to become the focus. But resolving a di...
10/15/2026

When a business relationship breaks down, it is easy for the disagreement itself to become the focus. But resolving a dispute usually involves another question too: what does the business actually need from the outcome?

Maybe the priority is payment. Maybe it is protecting an ongoing relationship, enforcing an agreement, ending the relationship cleanly, or simply getting enough clarity to make the next decision.

Those goals can point toward very different strategies. A business dispute may be a legal problem, but the solution still has to make sense for the business behind it.

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Inheritance tax can be one of the first questions beneficiaries have after receiving assets from an estate, and the answ...
10/15/2026

Inheritance tax can be one of the first questions beneficiaries have after receiving assets from an estate, and the answer can depend on the relationship to the person who passed away.

For this week’s Estate Administration Q&A, Aarian shares a quick overview of how Pennsylvania inheritance tax generally works and why the applicable rate can vary from one beneficiary to another.

Estate administration can come with a lot of moving parts, especially when taxes, deadlines, and distributions are involved. Having guidance through the process can make those next steps much clearer.

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As businesses grow, they often bring people in quickly because there is work that needs to get done.But before the relat...
10/14/2026

As businesses grow, they often bring people in quickly because there is work that needs to get done.

But before the relationship becomes routine, it helps to be clear about how that person is actually working with the company. Employee and independent-contractor relationships can come with different expectations, responsibilities, and legal considerations.

The goal is not to make hiring more complicated. It is to make sure the structure fits the reality of the relationship from the beginning.

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Some business decisions have an obvious next step. Others come with three reasonable options, five possible consequences...
10/13/2026

Some business decisions have an obvious next step. Others come with three reasonable options, five possible consequences, and no instruction manual anywhere in sight.

That tends to happen more often as a company grows. Hiring, ownership, agreements, expansion, and difficult business relationships are rarely simple yes-or-no decisions. The right move often depends on what the business is trying to protect, accomplish, or build next.

So we’re curious: what’s one business decision you wish came with an instruction manual? ⬇

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By the time a business dispute feels serious, there is usually already a story behind it.A relationship changed. Expecta...
10/09/2026

By the time a business dispute feels serious, there is usually already a story behind it.

A relationship changed. Expectations stopped lining up. An obligation became unclear. Communication became harder, and the issue that once felt manageable no longer does.

Litigation can be part of resolving a commercial dispute, but the strategy starts with understanding the problem, the documents, the business relationship, and what outcome actually matters.

Sometimes the most useful first step is simply getting clear on where things stand before deciding what comes next.

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A will can provide important instructions, but it does not make everything happen automatically.After someone dies, ther...
10/08/2026

A will can provide important instructions, but it does not make everything happen automatically.

After someone dies, there may still be assets to identify, accounts to address, debts and expenses to handle, property to distribute, and legal or administrative steps to complete. The exact process depends on the circumstances.

That is where estate administration comes in.

Planning ahead matters, but so does understanding what happens afterward. The documents help provide direction. Someone still has to carry that direction forward.

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For this week’s Attorney Take, Rocco answers a question that many families put off thinking about: what happens when the...
10/07/2026

For this week’s Attorney Take, Rocco answers a question that many families put off thinking about: what happens when there is no estate plan in place yet?

For parents of young children, one of the biggest decisions is naming who they would want to care for their kids if something happened to them.

Estate planning can feel like something to deal with later, but as Rocco explains, it is really about making important choices while they are still yours to make.

Swipe to read his full response. ➡️

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Templates can be useful starting points. The problem is when “starting point” quietly becomes “we signed it without real...
10/06/2026

Templates can be useful starting points. The problem is when “starting point” quietly becomes “we signed it without really changing anything.”

A document may look professional and still leave out something important to the actual relationship. The scope, payment structure, responsibilities, timing, ownership, or exit terms may not resemble the situation the template was originally written for.

The goal is not to make every agreement longer or more complicated. It is to make sure the document describes the deal people are actually making.

A polished template and a well-fitted agreement are not always the same thing.

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Every business has at least one process that somehow survived long after the company outgrew it.Maybe it started when th...
10/05/2026

Every business has at least one process that somehow survived long after the company outgrew it.

Maybe it started when there were only two people on the team, or when every decision still went through the founder. It worked, so nobody had a reason to question it.

Then the business changed and the process… didn’t.

Growth does not always require reinventing everything. But every once in a while, it is worth asking whether the way something has always been done still makes sense for the company that exists now.

What’s one thing your business still does “the old way”?

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400 Holiday Drive, Suite 210
Pittsburgh, PA
15220

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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