Edward Hale

About Edward Hale

Experienced employment attorney, business manager, and human resources professional with the ability, knowledge, and experience to capably manage a broad range of business and legal matters. Proven success identifying business and legal issues and conducting targeted information gathering to create, implement, and manage solution plans.Advocacy and Creative Problem Solving: Valued by colleagues and business partners for ability to craft creative solutions to complex problems and to earn trust of key decision makers. Diverse personal and professional background adds unique perspective to issues considered. Employment Law: Experience advising clients on employment law issues, both domestically and internationally, including employee terminations, employee leaves and reasonable accommodations, responding to administrative charges, immigration and regulatory compliance issues, anti-discrimination and anti-harassment training, and employee handbook reviews. Human Resources: Lauded for keen intuition and interpersonal skills. Breadth of experience advising for-profit and non-profit corporations on human resource issues, including employee evaluations, employee promotions and disciplinary measures, internal investigations, diversity and inclusion, and employee/management counseling. Flexibility: Trained as a large law firm litigator with years of experience representing corporate clients; also have experience working as in-house corporate counsel, corporate business manager/advisor, and non-profit legal counsel. Legal practice area experience includes employment, labor, and discrimination law, patent and trademark litigation/intellectual property law, commercial contracts, product liability, securities law, real estate, administrative law, non-profit law, and consumer protection. Have advised clients in matters in arbitration, mediation, business and pre-trial negotiations, trial, appeal, and before administrative bodies.

Experience

1. General Counsel

   City Year

   Jul 2025 — Present

Education

• Harvard University

  A.B.

  1994 — 1998

• Georgetown University Law Center

  J.D.

  1998 — 2001

Skills

• Securities Litigation
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Corporate Law
• Business Development
• White Collar Criminal Defense
• Mediation
• Commercial Litigation
• Civil Litigation
• Appeals
• Arbitration
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Securities Regulation
• Intellectual Property
• Employment Law
• Practice Management
• Legal Research
• Patent Litigation