Focus
Complex business litigation & trials
Practice areas
Founding Partner
Eleanor Hale
34+ years of practice
Eleanor Hale built her reputation in the one place reputations in this practice are made — at trial. For more than three decades she has led the firm's most consequential commercial disputes, from nine-figure fraud claims to bet-the-company partnership battles.
Clients retain Eleanor for her judgment as much as her advocacy. She is candid about risk, disciplined about cost, and unafraid to tell a client when the right move is to settle — or to fight. That credibility is what makes her settlements so favorable and her verdicts so persuasive.
She co-founded Hale & Brennan in 1987 on a single principle that still governs the firm: prepare every matter as though it will be tried.
Education
- J.D., Columbia Law School — Stone Scholar
- B.A., Economics, Williams College
Bar admissions
- New York
- U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y. & E.D.N.Y.
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Honors & recognition
- Chambers USA — Band 1, Commercial Litigation
- Best Lawyers® — Lawyer of the Year
- Benchmark Litigation Hall of Fame
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