Marshack Hays LLP is pleased to announce that Chad V. Haes has joined the firm as an associate attorney. Mr. Haes has a wide range of bankruptcy and litigation experience and also brings to his practice the perspective of a former law clerk and extern for bankruptcy judges in the Central District of California.
Mr. Haes’ litigation experience includes representing institutional lenders in actions related to lien priority and wrongful foreclosure, prosecuting and enforcing mechanic’s liens, seeking unlawful detainer judgments on behalf of secured lenders and representing creditors, debtors and trustees in the bankruptcy context.
A California native, Mr. Haes earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Azusa Pacific University in 2004 and his law degree from Southwestern Law School in 2008. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Haes served a two-year term as the judicial law clerk to the Honorable Meredith A. Jury of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, Riverside Division. Mr. Haes also externed for Honorable Samuel L. Bufford of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles Division.
While in law school, Mr. Haes was a member of the Moot Court Honors Program and the recipient of the John J. Schumacher full-tuition scholarship, the Equal Justice America fellowship, the Wiley W. Manuel Award for Pro Bono Legal Services and the CALI Excellence Award for Constitutional Law. Mr. Haes was also selected as a finalist oralist and finalist writer in the Southwestern First-Year Intramural Moot Court Competition and a finalist oralist in the Rendigs National Products Liability Moot Court Competition.