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Description of Practice:
Debra Dison Hall is a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office with broad experience representing profit and nonprofit corporations with respect to legal issues, including Board governance and corporate compliance matters, major contract negotiations, claims, development of policies and standard form agreements, employee matters, and outsourcing arrangements. She has acted as outside General Counsel to a number of corporations and practiced extensively in the fields of intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, private offerings, academic law and general business and contract law.
She has acted as lead counsel for numerous acquisitions and divestitures, including for construction, manufacturing, energy, waste disposal and hardware, software and service companies. She has also represented nonprofit corporations in corporate restructures and in tax-exempt financings.
Ms. Hall is on the Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Board, was Co-Chair of the 2004 and 2005 Crescenta Canada YMCA Community Support Campaign and is an advisor to the Crescenta Canada YMCA Model UN Delegation. She served as a member of the Board of Directors (1998-2004) and President of the Caltech Alumni Association (2002-2003), and was Chair of the Caltech Alumni 2002 Seminar Day Committee.
She is a member of the Intellectual Property Section and the Business and Corporations Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the National Association of College and University Attorneys.
Educational History:
Ms. Hall received her Bachelors of Science from the California Institute of Technology (where she was in the first class of women admitted) and her J.D. from the University of Southern California, where she was a member of the Law Review. | 