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James Hayes

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Adjunct Law Professor | Mediator | Attorney at Law at JAMES A. HAYES, JR. at ZINSER | HAYES

Newport Beach, California

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PRACTICE AREAS: * Outside General Counsel to Small-to-Medium Sized Businesses * Debtor-Creditor Representation and Business Insolvency Counseling * Commercial Transactions BAR ADMISSIONS: State: California (1992) Federal: United States Supreme Court Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals United States District Court Central,Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts Of California SIGNIFICANT REPRESENTATIONS: 2018 – Corporate Counsel to Aztec Telecom, Inc. in private merger with Stellar Telecom, Inc. Reported on CNBC. Amount of transaction confidential. 2005-2009 – Special Corporate Counsel to The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, California. Represented the Diocese as part of legal team in the mediation and settlement of over 100 clergy abuse cases for $100 million. Handled all aspects of civil corporate reorganization of the Diocese and its parishes, involving more than $1 billion in real and personal property. 1999 – Corporate Counsel to Mericom, Inc., private corporation with $70 million in annual revenue. Represented Mericom in stock acquisition by Alcoa, Inc. REPORTED CASES INCLUDE: Franchise Tax Board v. Jackson, (In re Jackson), 184 F. 3d 1046 (9th Cir. 1999). (Issues decided: No 11th amendment state sovereign immunity against debtor’s objection to state tax claim in federal bankruptcy court. McLaughlin v. Walnut Properties, Inc. , 119 Cal. App. 4th 293, 14 Cal. Rptr. 3d 369 (Cal. Ct. App. 2004). (Issue decided: state law, not federal bankruptcy code, governs whether a real estate lease, not assumed during the lessee’s bankruptcy case, is terminated after the bankruptcy case is dismissed) Center for Bio-Ethical Reform v. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, 533 F.3d 780 (9th Cir. 2008), cert. denied, 2009 U.S. LEXIS 553 (January 12, 2009) Issue decided: Expression of political speech on the public street outside of a middle school is protected by the First Amendment

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Newport Beach, California

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