Eric S. Hartman is a Long Beach attorney with 37 years of experience and offices conveniently located in the Market Place Office Park on Pacific Coast Highway in East Long Beach, serving the greater Long Beach-Lakewood area and most of Orange County.  Providing personal attention to detail, Mr. Hartman places an emphasis on client satisfaction and has earned the highest peer rating available from the Martindale-Hubbell lawyer rating service.  Having practiced in most areas of civil law, Mr. Hartman's law practice now emphasises (1) business law, from start-ups to business sales, business purchases and dissolutions, including business transactional and business litigation matters; (2) estate planning, including durable powers of attorney, advance health care directives, wills and trusts; (3) probate; (4) contract law (including contract review and preparation of customized and unique agreements); and (5) real estate law, including real estate purchase and sales transactions, commercial and residential leases, and document review.  Our office offers a reduced fee for initial consultations, and the consultation fee is credited against flat fee services when the client decides to proceed beyond the initial consultation.  The consultation fee is waived for some matters, such as probates.  The office accepts VISA and Mastercard payments, as well as checks.  Please select the other pages on this website for additional information.