Practice Areas

Arizona Law Firm

The Phoenix, AZ, commercial litigation attorneys at Jennings, Haug & Cunningham, LLP deliver capable legal advice and superior personal service to a diverse clientele of businesses and individuals throughout Arizona and the Southwestern U.S. Our Arizona lawyers work in many areas of the law, and provide our clients with a full range of legal services.

Business Law

• Business formation
• Articles of incorporation
• Financing business start-ups
• Purchase and sale of a business
• Acquisition or leasing of property
• Structure business transactions
• Labor management, employment law
• Business succession planning
• Pre-bankruptcy financial analysis and business restructuring
• Bankruptcy filing

Banking, Finance & Leasing

• Raw land acquisition and development
• Asset-based financing
• Equipment and real property leasing
• Credit lines
• Lessor financing
• Loan and lease documents
• Creditor Representation in bankruptcy

Litigation

• Business litigation
• Construction litigation
• Liability & insurance defense litigation
• Surety & fidelity litigation
• Employment litigation
• Real estate litigation
• Bankruptcy litigation
• Personal injury & wrongful death
• Estate planning, trusts & probate

Employment Law

• Drafting of employee handbooks
• Employment contracts, non-compete agreements
• Development of substance abuse programs
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requirements and compliance
• Litigation defense on claims of OSHA safety violations, discrimination and sexual harassment
• Defense on claims of unfair labor practices
• Defense on claims of wrongful termination
• Litigation, mediation, arbitration

Bankruptcy / Creditors' Rights

Distressed Businesses

• Pre-bankruptcy analysis & financial restructuring
• Workout plans & creditor negotiations
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Section 363 sale

Creditors' Rights

• Provisional remedies
• Initiating involuntary bankruptcy and foreclosure proceedings
• Analyzing assets and liabilities
• Litigating plans of reorganization
• Preparing creditor plans of reorganization
• Negotiating with debtors
• Representing unsecured creditors' committee
• Pursuing preferential or fraudulent conveyance claims
• Lease contract assumptions or rejections
• Stay relief litigation
• Post-judgment collections
• Receivership
• Litigation, mediation, arbitration

Estate Planning & Probate

• Business succession planning
• Wills and living wills
• Trusts, revocable trusts, and living trusts
• Irrevocable life insurance trusts
• Family limited partnerships
• Charitable remainder trusts
• Charitable family limited partnerships
• Charitable lead trusts
• Family foundations
• Qualified personal resident trusts
• Litigation

Construction Law

• Navigating the bid process
• Representation in bid protest actions
• Providing training on lien and bond rights
• Asserting or defending mechanics' liens, construction liens, bond claims and lien foreclosure
• Represent clients before the Registrar of Contractors, OSHA, regulatory agencies
• Employment law concerns
• Litigation, mediation, arbitration

Liability & Insurance Defense

• Defense against claims of insurance bad faith, breach of contract, fraud
• Declaratory judgment actions
• Defense of personal injury liability
• Defense of professional malpractice liability
• Director and officer’s liability, accountant breach of fiduciary duty
• Litigation, mediation, arbitration

Surety & Fidelity

• Interpreting the scope of bond coverage
• Evaluating and defending fidelity claims
• Evaluating construction surety claims and defaults
• Defending performance and payment bond claims
• Defending license and miscellaneous bond claims
• Assisting with subrogation, indemnification and salvage matters
• Defending bad faith claims

Commercial Real Estate

• Purchase and sales agreements, construction contracts, commercial lease agreements, and lending agreements
• Negotiation
• Commercial real estate financing for acquisition, construction
• Evaluating documents and titles
• Closings
• Litigation, mediation, arbitration

Personal Injury Litigation

• Car accidents
• Truck accidents
• Building construction accidents
• Highway construction accidents
• Toxic mold

Wrongful Death Litigation

• Deaths resulting from accidents
• Death of children under care of Arizona Child Protective Services
• Death resulting from professional malpractice

Malpractice Litigation

• Medical malpractice
• Dental malpractice
• Pharmacist malpractice
• Legal malpractice
• Design engineer, architect and engineer malpractice
• Insurance broker / agent malpractice
• Financial advisor malpractice
• Litigation

Property Damage to Auto from Uninsured or Underinsured Motorists

• Interpreting policy provisions
• Representation in litigation or arbitration proceedings
• Legal counsel regarding “bad faith” issues if an insurance company is refusing payment
• Litigation

Contact the Arizona lawyers at Jennings, Haug & Cunningham, LLP. We serve businesses and individual clients in Phoenix and throughout the state of Arizona, including Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, Tucson, Flagstaff, Prescott and we accept select cases in the southwest United States, California and Nevada.