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Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Harry Hathaway, Hathaway, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Fulbright & Jaworski, Fulbright and Jaworski, Fulbright, corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, transactional law, trusts and estates, complex business litigation, corporate law, real estate, shareholder disputes, business restructurings, spin-offs, Los Angeles
Harry L. Hathaway - Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
Harry L. Hathaway
Of Counsel
D: +1 213 892 9336
Los Angeles
555 South Flower Street
Forty-First Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
T: +1 213 892 9200
F: +1 213 892 9494
"Clients benefit from his deep pool of practical know-how intersecting business and law while providing efficient solutions that avoid litigation."
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION
EXPERIENCE

Represents all forms of business entities in their transactional matters involving organizational, merger and acquisition, and reorganizational activities. He counsels management, board of directors and shareholders in business issues, corporate governance and disputes.

Through his deep experience he maintains a practice involving trusts and estates and private wealth counseling. He regularly advises nonprofit corporations and trusts and their directors and trustees in their affairs. He currently serves on several non-profit boards.

LEADERSHIP
Clients select Harry for his vast experience in leading organizations and boards, including his own law firm, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., while he was partner-in-charge of the Los Angeles office for approximately 12 years.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

Harry's recent significant matters include:

  • Selection by accounting firms and business consultants to assist in the restructuring of family businesses to provide for orderly transition of management and preservation of wealth
  • Counseling boards of directors of private companies on various governance and internal matters
  • Serving as counsel to business executives in complex corporate matters which require reorganization of management and the spin off of operating entities and adherence to duties of the fiduciary
  • Counseling several high net worth clients on business and family succession matters
  • Counseling nonprofit organizations on their business and philanthropic affairs
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES and MEMBERSHIPS
  • American Bar Retirement Funds, Inc., Director (2002 - Present); Vice President (2007 - 2008); President (2008 - 2009); Advisory Director (2009 -      )
  • Manor Vail Lodge, Vail, Colorado, Board President (2010 - 2011) 
  • Los Angeles County Bar Association, President (1989 - 1990)
  • Los Angeles County Bar Association, Chair and Council Member of the Senior Lawyers Division (2008 - 2010)
  • Chancery Club, Los Angeles, President (2010 - 2011)
  • U.C. Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees, Chair (2000 - 2003); Emeritus Trustee (2004-present)
  • Prudential Overall Supply, Director (1983 - Present)
  • Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation, Trustee (2010)
  • Susan Riley Family Charitable Foundation, Trutee (2010)
  • Hankin & Co. Investment Banking, Advisory Director (1999 - 2002)
  • American Bar Association, Board of Governors (1990 - 1994)
    • Senior Lawyers Division, Chair (2001 - 2002)
    • Young Lawyers Division Chair (1970 - 1971)
  • Los Angeles County Bar Foundation, Former Trustee (1990 - 1992)
  • American Bar Endowment, President (1987 - 1989); Director (1979 - 1995)
  • American Bar Association Journal, Editor (1982 - 1989)
  • Alpha Microsystems, Inc., Former Director (1984 - 1996)
  • Public Counsel, President (1984 - 1985), Los Angeles, California 
PROFESSIONAL HONORS
  • "Super Lawyer," Southern California Top 100 (2004, 2005); Southern California (2006 - 2010) Law & Politics
  • Difference Maker Award, American Bar Association General Practice Section (2002)
  • American Bar Foundation, Sustaining Life-Benefactor Fellow
  • The Best Lawyers in America, Corporate, Trusts & Estates (20 years)
  • Who's Who in America
  • Who's Who in American Law
  • University of California, Berkeley, Elected Emeritus Life Trustee
  • Chancellor's Award, University of California, Berkeley (2003)
  • Elected to Berkeley Fellows, honorific society
  • Martindale-Hubbell AV Rating
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1962 - J.D., University of Southern California Law School
1959 - B.S., Finance, University of California, Berkeley

A distinguished military graduate from U.C. Berkeley, Harry was president of the graduating law class of 1962 and a member of Phi Delta Phi.

He was admitted to practice law in California in 1963. He also is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts, as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

MILITARY SERVICE

1965-1968 - U.S. Army Reserves, Captain
1963-1965 - U.S. Army Intelligence Corps, Aide de Camp to Commanding General
1963-1965 - U.S. Army Intelligence Corps, 1st Lieutenant

INTERESTS

Harry is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys hunting, fishing, skiing and mountain hiking.

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT
  • Art Center College of Design Board of Trustees, Vice Chair (2003 - 2006); Chair, Capital Campaign






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