Legal Representation including Personal Injury, Business, Divorce, Immigration, Disability Cases
Mr. Hales handles civil matters including personal injuries for individuals who have been in accidents or injured by negligence or medical malpractice, family law matters including divorce, immigration, and civil rights matters including disability rights. He represents businesses in litigation, arbitration or mediation.
Business and Corporate Law
Mr. Hales acts as counsel to businesses and nonprofit organizations on a variety of legal matters. These include corporation, limited liability company and partnership formation, the drafting and negotiation of contracts, employment issues, government regulation, real estate and and other business matters including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act which, despite popular opinion, does apply to privately held companies and nonprofit organizations in two notable areas (whistle-blower protection and document retention -see Sarbanes-Oxley compliance guidelines from BoardSource).
Wills, Trusts and Estates
Mr. Hales helps individuals, families and their financial advisors create estate plans that will protect their loved ones and ensure that their assets are preserved to be used as they intend. For some, this may mean the drafting of a simple will, durable power of attorney, durable health care power of attorney and living will (advanced directive). He also drafts more complicated trusts including revocable (inter vivos) trusts, credit shelter (AB) trusts (see.pdf article on left), Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRAT), Charitable Income Trusts including Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (CRUT) and Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts (CRAT), irrevocable life insurance trusts, supplemental needs trusts also known as special needs trusts or family limited partnerships and limited liability companies.
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