Hackman Hulett

Hackman Hulett LLP is a small business-oriented law firm based at 220 South Elm Street in Zionsville, Indiana, serving the Indianapolis area. It was originally founded in 1929 as Thompson Rabb & Stevenson and cites more than 90 years of practice.

The commercial real estate group works on office, industrial, multifamily, and retail property, covering commercial leases, financing, property and land use, zoning, development, and transfers including 1031 property tax exchanges, along with acquisitions and dispositions, development work, and real estate and construction disputes. The firm has a large client base of commercial real estate brokers and drafts their contracts and agency agreements, handles commission disputes, and defends claims. On the landlord side it handles leases, ownership transfers, foreclosures, and evictions, and it negotiates lease terms for small business tenants, including HIPAA compliance clauses for medical office space. Franchise work covers franchise agreements and litigation, condemnation and eminent domain disputes, and challenges to valuations using appraisers.

Beyond real estate the firm advises corporate, nonprofit, and governmental organizations on business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, employment contracts, and regulatory compliance, and it also practices estate planning, health care law, professional license defense, and criminal defense. It describes a deliberately small size in which the same one or two attorneys, often partners, carry a matter from beginning to end.

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