Family Law

• Guardianship
  In addition to estate planning, WLJ can assist clients with planning for incapacity issues, long-term care and potential threats that could erode an estate. WLJ can provide guidance and assistance to aid in asset preservation through the employment of legal solutions, such as irrevocable trusts, special needs trusts, annuities and other tools. We seek ways for our clients to avoid guardianship proceedings, but we also have great experience in guardianship cases and can help our clients minimize costs and difficulties associated with this type of proceeding.

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  Our diverse team of commercial litigators, business and transactional practitioners and former criminal law attorneys helps clients navigate antitrust and competition matters.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  It has been our privilege to represent a number of Arkansas-based state or federally chartered institutions in a variety of transactions, including corporate formation and governance, capital formation, taxation, state and federal regulatory matters, and in other areas integral to the corporate existence and operations of banking institutions. View all attorneys
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Our mergers and acquisitions attorneys regularly counsel public and private companies, private investors and financial advisors in all types of corporate restructuring transactions, such as asset and stock transfers, exchange offers, mergers, joint ventures and going-private transactions.
• Business Disputes
  With the knowledge acquired from his extensive litigation experience, Cyril advises clients not only on how to best navigate through litigation but also how to anticipate and avoid it altogether. He successfully litigates, mediates and arbitrates all types of construction and business disputes.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  While many intellectual property owners value their exclusive rights to market and sell their products or services, some find that it is often more valuable to let someone else use their intellectual property rights in exchange for a fee. Intellectual property licensing agreements provide the mechanism by which IP owners can leverage their rights for these royalty payments. Our intellectual property attorneys have experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating license agreements, both for IP owners looking to license their rights and for licensees looking to use the intellectual property of others. In addition to these licensing agreements, our IP attorneys work closely with our commercial transactional attorneys on other intellectual property and technology transactions and agreements.
• Unfair Competition
  In addition to our representation of clients in patent, trademark and copyright litigation, our attorneys serve as counsel for businesses in other related disputes. For example, our intellectual property attorneys and labor and employment attorneys often join forces on trade secret litigation and disputes, our attorneys work with clients on disputes arising from the unauthorized use of the client’s name, image and likeness, and our attorneys handle cases involving false advertising and unfair competition. We also serve as counsel in UDRP proceedings, which are legal actions brought for disputes regarding the registration of domain names and websites.
• Antitrust
  We take a multidisciplinary approach. Our relevant experience covers a wide range of related issues, such as mergers and acquisitions and regulatory and agency work. Most recently, we defended a case by a competitor specialty hospital against the state’s largest hospital system and the state’s largest healthcare insurer alleging unlawful collusion and antitrust violations.

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
  Employers face a complicated web of laws that impact employee leave. With the extensive know-how and experience of our labor and employment attorneys, Wright Lindsey Jennings can help. We frequently advise clients on complicated leave issues involving the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Arkansas Civil Rights Act (ACRA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Arkansas Workers Compensation laws.
• Wrongful Termination
  When litigation arises, Regina first seeks to understand her clients’ goals, and then leverages her extensive experience in state and federal court to defend against wrongful discharge claims, state and federal claims of unlawful discrimination, and various employment-related actions.
• Employment Discrimination
  In fact, our attorneys have litigated and tried a variety of cases under federal and state law, including cases brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Arkansas Civil Rights Act, the Fair Labor Standard Act, the Arkansas Minimum Wage Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Equal Pay Act and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983.
• Employment Contract
  Daveante’s focus as of late has been assisting employers with non-competition and confidentiality issues, including counseling on and drafting employment agreements, litigating issues arising from such agreements, and presenting and writing on the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on employee retention and the need for effective confidentiality and non-competition agreements.
• Employment Litigation
  Stuart is one of the most highly regarded employment attorneys in Arkansas, whose focus as of late has been on pandemic-related employment issues (including vaccine mandates), managing medical and potentially recreational marijuana in the Arkansas workplace and defending collective and class actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Arkansas Minimum Wage Act.
• Sexual Harassment
  From sexual harassment to employee leave to social media, our team offers training on a wide variety of issues to help HR departments achieve best practices in the workplace.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  With almost 45 years of experience, Steve Giles counsels his clients through complex real estate matters. Clients rely on Steve for his insight on land use, zoning and development issues.
• Premises Liability
  With a focus on transportation and trucking defense, administrative law, premises liability, and insurance defense, Quinten represents clients from all over the country and in the State of Arkansas.
• Construction Litigation
  David Jones focuses his practice in the areas of business law and litigation, commercial litigation and construction law.
• Real Estate Transactions
  Cal’s corporate and transactional practice encompasses an extensive range of business, tax and legal matters, including mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions, securities offerings and executive compensation.
• Eminent Domain
  Wright Lindsey Jennings offers sophisticated representation and general counsel services to several local government boards and commissions on a wide range of matters encompassing the Freedom of Information Act, constitutional law and civil rights issues, elections law, labor and employment law covering grievances and due process terminations, real estate, eminent domain proceedings, free speech issues, bidding and contract matters, law enforcement issues, municipal bonds, public finance and leasing. In addition, we have extensive knowledge of environmental law, as well as water and wastewater issues.
• Land Use and Zoning
  Our corporate and securities attorneys advise a wide array of business clients on matters, such as corporate structure and management, mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, real estate and land use, public and private securities and debt offerings, state and federal regulatory questions and tax and compensation planning questions.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Those cases span the broad range of substantive law areas in which WLJ practices, including bankruptcy, commercial disputes, products liability, insurance coverage disputes, employment disputes, intellectual property and personal injury cases. View all attorneys
• Medical Malpractice

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Our experienced estate planning team serves individuals and families with a range of needs – from the simplest to the most complex.
• Wills
  In its most basic form, estate planning is the process by which an individual or family arranges the transfer of assets in anticipation of death. Wills and trusts are the common instruments utilized to achieve estate planning goals. Estate planning may also involve current financial planning, combined with contingency planning for the time when a family member becomes incapacitated. We achieve great comfort and success for our clients because we focus on the lifetime needs of our clients and then work that “lifetime plan” into how assets will be distributed upon death.
• Trusts
  For most of five decades, Mike has been advising clients of all sizes in a broad range of tax-related areas, including trusts and estates, pension and employee benefits, industrial development bonds, business organizations and reorganizations, and business sales and acquisitions, to name a few.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Tax Law
  T.J. Lawhon leverages the perspective and experience he gained while operating his family’s seed company when counseling his clients with agricultural-related issues, general business matters and state tax law.