About James Arthur Hayes
James Arthur Hayes Jr. is a licensed attorney admitted to practice regulation in California in 1992. He holds and maintains an active license standing. Mr. Hayes is a companion Hayes, a regulation firm positioned at 23 Corporate Plaza Drive, Suite 150, Newport Beach, California. He has been practicing law for over 30 years, focusing on company, insolvency, and business law things. His practice encompasses various elements of corporate law, including corporate governance, debtor-creditor family members, and commercial transactions.
He additionally serves as a mediator at the panel of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. In 2012-2013, he used to be acknowledged because the maximum frequently chosen mediator within the Central District of California and the Santa Ana Division. Mr. Hayes graduated from Western State University College of Law in 1992, where he used to be a member of the editorial body of workers of the Western State Law Review for five semesters. He additionally holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Classics from the University of California, Irvine, completed in 1975. Throughout his career, Mr. Hayes has represented clients in a number of legal levels, which includes legal proceedings, appeals, negotiations, and trials.
He has handled significant instances, such as the insolvency things of Franchise Tax Board v. Jackson and McLaughlin v. Walnut Properties, Inc. He has also served as Special Corporate Counsel to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, California, from 2005 to 2009, where he used to be a part of the legal team in mediating and settling over one hundred clergy abuse cases for $100 million. Mr. Hayes has been a member in good standing of the California Lawyers Association, serving as chair of the Insolvency Law Committee’s Education Subcommittee and a member of the Legislation Subcommittee. He has additionally been a member of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Bar Association and the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum.
He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Commercial Law League of America, and the California Receivers Forum. Additionally, he has been lively within the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. From 1999 to 2002, he was the Editor in Chief of the State Bar Business Law Section’s Business Law News and a member of the Section’s Commercial Transactions Committee. Mr. Hayes has additionally contributed to legal education as an adjunct professor at Western State College of Law, teaching company, business, and insolvency regulation courses since 1994. He served as Assistant Dean of Academic Programs and an Associate Professor of Law until 2009. He has additionally studied Roman Catholic canon law at the School of Canon Law, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
