Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Corporate Law & Securities Paine Hamblen has experience in all phases of securities and corporate law, including mergers, acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, securities registrations and public offerings. The firm has substantial resources for commercial, corporate and securities litigation.
• Business Transactions
  Business Transactions Paine Hamblen provides a full-range of legal services to both established and entrepreneurial businesses, and regularly handles acquisitions, start-ups and public and private debt and equity financings. Clients of the firm include companies in the manufacturing, banking, public utility, insurance, health care, high-technology, and service industries. The firm has broad experience in corporate, securities and employee relations matters affecting its business clients.
• Limited Liability Companies
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
  Employment and Labor Litigation Paine Hamblen represents many employers facing litigation relating to federal and state issues; including COBRA & ERISA; employment discrimination; wrongful discharge; non-competition; non-solicitation and trade secrets; The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and Sections 1981 and 1983; Americans with Disabilities Act, Washington law against discrimination; Age Discrimination in Employment Act; Sarbanes-Oxley and whistleblower claims under state law; Fair Labor Standards Act and Family Medical Leave Act and their respective state law counterparts; and Fair Housing Act.
• Employment Discrimination

Property Law

• Construction Litigation
  Paine Hamblen represents clients in a wide range of real estate and construction-based litigation matters, including real property acquisition disputes, easement and encroachment disputes, adverse possession and condemnation proceedings, utility right-of-way and easement proceedings, construction litigation and claims, architect and engineer malpractice claims, labor and material lien claims, mortgage foreclosures, land use disputes, water rights, natural resources, and hazardous waste regulation and cleanup.
• Real Estate Transactions
  The Paine Hamblen Real Estate Group represents real estate developers, buyers, sellers, and lenders in commercial, office and multi-family real property sales and financing’s. The Real Estate Property group also has extensive experience in commercial and industrial leasing transactions for landlords and tenants and in the representation of clients in all aspects of real estate development and construction from the initial property acquisition through construction and occupancy, including water rights and hazardous waste regulation.
• Easement
• Land Use and Zoning
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  Paine Hamblen’s lawyers are experienced with this highly nuanced area of law in both the commercial and residential context.  The post-Covid reality facing residential landlords presents an ever-shifting landscape of federal, state, and local laws and regulations.  We advise residential property management companies and landlords concerning application procedures, federal subsidies, insurance issues, security deposit protocols, reasonable accommodation requests, and regulatory.  We work with landlords to evict residential tenants and we defend property managers and landlords facing Fair Housing Act discrimination suits, collective or individual actions under the Residential Landlord Tenant Act, and other tenant claims.  We further assist commercial landlords and property managers with lease drafting, negotiations, and assignments or subletting, as well as handling commercial evictions and litigation.

Immigration Law

• Business Immigration
  Employment, Labor & Immigration Paine Hamblen represents employers in all areas of labor and employment law, including union-management matters, labor negotiations and arbitration, discrimination and wrongful termination defense, workers’ compensation, OSHA, WISHA, Fair Labor Standards Act, employer relations and business immigration law.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Commercial and Complex Litigation Paine Hamblen has extensive depth with our knowledge in working on large and complex litigation matters. Our litigation attorneys have the experience and capacity to successfully initiate and defend civil litigation matters in state and federal courts involving a broad spectrum of areas, including commercial disputes, construction, employment, energy, toxic tort, product liability, estate and trust, intellectual property, personal injury, environmental, tax and other complex litigation. Paine Hamblen is a leader in the region with experience in electronic discovery (digital and computer evidence.) In addition, Paine Hamblen has several attorneys who are trained mediators with extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Trust and estate litigation is a unique area of law in and of itself. Trust and estate litigation often blends otherwise differing areas of the law, business, real estate, and community property concepts all while subject to unique statutes that govern probates, wills and trusts. Paine Hamblen’s trust and estate litigators work with our estate planning attorneys to resolve trust and estate disputes, following the loss of a loved one, including by litigation if necessary.
• Wills
• Trusts
  Estate Planning, Probate & Trusts Paine Hamblen’s Tax Practice Group is experienced in estate planning, corporation and partnership taxation, federal income taxation, and state and local taxation. Our estate planning clients receive comprehensive and individual estate plans, which often include business succession planning, tax planning and charitable giving as well as probate and trust administration. In addition, we handle sophisticated tax matters for corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, trusts and individuals.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
• Tax Law