Administrative & Regulatory
We take pride in our achievement in the public legal forums. We enjoy high regard in this arena and we are frequently called upon to support various high profile platforms and advocate positions favorable to our clients’ and the firms interests.
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Business - Corporate, Partnership & LLC
The Intellectual Property Group represents a wide variety of domestic and international companies ranging from start-ups to publicly traded multinational corporations. These clients require traditional day-to-day business counseling involving all types of tangible and intangible property including: the clearance, registration, transfer, licensing and acquisition of software; film and music libraries; copyrights; trademarks and trademark portfolios; trade secrets; patents; and products.
The corporate and business lawyers also handle secured and unsecured financing transactions, franchising and public offerings, private placement and leveraged buyouts, and obtaining and perfection security interest in intellectual property.
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Construction Law and Construction Defect
If required, and when appropriate, we support our clients in prosecuting or defending contracts, construction defect, land use, environmental, landlord-tenant and partnership litigation
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Entertainment
Jimmerson Hansen, P.C. has one of the pre-eminent entertainment law practices in the state of Nevada.
General Representation
The firm’s entertainment lawyers serve as general counsel for a diverse group of artist, entertainers and entertainment-related business. Our lawyers understand the needs of entertainment clients and familiarize themselves with each client’s goals and objectives. This enables the entertainment attorneys to advise clients on all business and legal matters, including negotiation and documentation of a wide variety of contractual relationships involving individual talent, studios, networks, internet and production companies, banks, financiers, bond companies and all forms of distributors. Our entertainment lawyers also advise clients regarding the use and formation of corporations, joint ventures, limited and general partnership, limited liability entities, “loanout” companies, and other business formats, and assist our clients in complying with relevant collective bargaining agreements and state and federal laws and regulations.
Talent Agreements
Our entertainment attorneys are well known for negotiating and documenting creative talent agreements for services procured in theatrical feature films, television series, television movies and mini-series, internet and interactive multimedia productions, commercials, endorsements, publishing and stage plays.
Project Financing and Distribution
The lawyers in our Entertainment Group negotiate arrangements and prepare contracts for the financing, development and production of motion pictures, television programs, books plays and other creative outlets. Such arrangements can have a number of legal components, including distribution licenses, bank loan agreements, completion bonds and equity investments, which often involve obtaining and perfecting (and, if necessary, foreclosing upon) security interests I various forms of intellectual property.
Celebrity Proprietary Rights
The rights to the name, voice, likeness and other characteristics of a celebrity are of unusual and special importance. The firms entertainment attorneys advised clients on the protection of personal, publicly, trademark and other proprietary rights and with the licensing of such rights when used for products and services.
Rights Acquisitions
Our entertainment attorneys represent producers, directors and production companies in the negotiation and documentation of agreements to obtain critically important literary rights, which are the basis of entertainment productions Likewise, our entertainment lawyers represent authors and other owners of such rights in sale and licensing transactions, having on many occasions implemented precedent-setting deals.
Production Legal Work
We often perform the “production legal work” for production companies working on movies, television programs, music videos, and other entertainment productions. Such work includes creating solid chain of title agreements for all underlying property fundamental to production and the negotiation and preparation of agreements for securing rights to locations, property, crew cast.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Our entertainment lawyers assist clients in the resolution of disputes involving individuals, partnerships, production companies’, distributors, guilds and/or governmental agencies. If litigation is necessary, our litigators have extensive experience with entertainment industry cases having handled numerous high profile cases, some of which established important legal precedents in the entertainment industry.
The firm is familiar with and often assists parties in resolving disputes though various methods of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) instead of traditional litigation. The ADR covers a wide variety of formal and informal disputes resolution techniques. Use of an appropriate ADR technique can yield many benefits. In addition to containing litigation costs and expediting resolution, ADR presents and opportunity to resolve disputes in a manner, which protects the participants’ privacy and can, maintain ongoing business and personal relationships. Both as advocates and arbitrators our mediators, the firms lawyer have use ADR techniques to resolve a variety of complex disputes, including business, commercial, entertainment, real estate, labor, trust and estates and family law controversies. In fact, our senior partner, James J Jimmerson, Esq. , is a certified mediator and arbitrator for two of the most recognized arbitral forums, the American Arbitration Association(AAA) and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers(AAML).
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Environmental Law
Over the years, Jimmerson Hansen has discretely represented numerous high profile clients, successfully negotiating and executing the best outcome for the situation. While it is not always possible to contain case information presented in a public court, we are media trained and will employ all legal measures to protect the privacy of our clients.
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Estate Planning and Probate
The firm represents individual clients in estate planning and in the administration of estates, trusts, guardianships and conservatorships. This encompasses the implementation of estate plans that permit family wealth to be transferred as the lowest possible tax and administrative cost, disability planning through the use of durable powers of attorney for health care and asset management, nominations of conservator of the person and estate and creations of funded revocable trusts. It also includes the selection of the appropriate estate planning vehicles, such as custodianships, wills, testamentary trusts and domestic and offshore revocable and irrevocable inter vivos trusts, as well as liquidity planning to provide for the payment of death taxes and costs of administration through optimal use of the unified credit, marital deduction, life insurance and charitable giving. The firm also assists clients in maximizing use of the generation-skipping transfer tax exemptions through lifetime and testamentary gifts and irrevocable life insurance trusts and evaluation and implementation of sophisticated estate freezing techniques, such as charitable split-interest trusts, installment sales, corporate recapitilizations, partnership freezes, buy-sell agreements, family partnership freezes, and specialized insurance protection.
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Family Law
The family is the cornerstone of society. However, circumstances can occur which drive family members apart. We work closely with our clients to achieve equitable solutions whether dealing with divorce, child custody, child support or the rights of individual family members.
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Gaming
Gaming Members of the Nevada gaming community have had a long relationship with the firm through the rapid expansion of the industry. We have helped our clients in this area with skillful negotiations and innovative solutions to help solve their unique problems and issues.
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Health Care, Malpractice and Professional Liability
We can help you form a professional health care organization or manage your existing one. Our expertise will help you guard against the pitfalls associated with Medicare and Medicaid, as well as a variety of employee, financing and fraud issues.
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Litigation
The Firms Litigation Department handles a wide variety of matters before federal and state trial and appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court, arbitration tribunals and administrative agencies, in virtually every type of business, commercial, entertainment, communication and domestic litigation.
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Medical Malpractice and Insurance
We can help you form a professional health care organization or manage your existing one. Our expertise will help you guard against the pitfalls associated with Medicare and Medicaid, as well as a variety of employee, financing and fraud issues.
Those in the health care field too often are exposed and vulnerable to claims of medical malpractice, fraud and issues related to Medicate, Medicaid and employee problems. At Jimmerson Hansen, our expertise in the area of health care law helps our clients guard against potential pitfalls and protects clients in the event they are sued.
- Managed Care
- Professional Corporate Formation and Organization
- Medicare and Medicaid Issues
- Provider Formation, Acquisition and Merger
- Complex Health Care Contracts
- Medical Staff and Physician Privileges
- Labor and Employment
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Personal Injury
"Figuring our how much your accident injuries are worth is a critical aspect of any accident claim. And, it is part of a claim about which it is most difficult to generalize; the amount depends on your very particular circumstances."
With that understanding, we provide tailored, targeted and hard-hitting effort in and out of court to best achieve our clients' objectives.
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Real Estate
Southern Nevada, and the greater Clark County area specifically, is one of the fastest growing areas in the entire United States. Explosive growth requires attorneys who are knowledgeable and acutely aware of current trends.
Jimmerson Hansen, P.C. has played a significant role in Nevada’s real estate industry for more that 20 years and enjoys a reputation as one of Nevada’s premier firms handling real estate issues. We represent developers, construction companies, landlords, home owners associations as well as individual property owners.
Our Lawyers are more than skilled technicians. We understand our clients’ business objectives and we help them achie3ve those objectives in an efficient, cost effective manner. Our approach is business-like and deal oriented. We focus on what is important and keep that focus until the transaction closes. We are dealmakers; not deal breakers.
We advise our clients on all aspects of their transactions. This includes determining the appropriate ownership vehicle in light of tax and liability issues, negotiating the necessary documentation, performing the required due diligence and closing the deal.
We are experienced in office buildings; industrial 0parks; community, power and regional shopping centers; residential development, including single family, condominium and apartment projects; mobile home parks; warehouse clubs development; country club and resort projects and mixed use developments.
When appropriate, we call prosecuted or defend contract, partnership, construction defect, land use, environmental and landlord-tenant litigation. We also work closely with our income and estate tax planners to achieve the optimal tax treatment for our clients
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The firm’s intellectual Property Group has special expertise in handling the complex problems involved in the registration, exploitation and enforcement of the to intellectual property, including, trademarks, copyrights, rights of publicity, patents ant trade secrets.
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