Contact Info:
Email: john.hafner@gcccd.edu
Fax: (858) 240-5424
Course(s):
BUS-125 Business Law
Course Notes:
Legal environment of business, sources of law, constitutional bases of regulation, social and ethical influences, corporate responsibility, judicial and administrative systems, contracts, torts, agency, business organizations, bankruptcy, securities regulation, regulation of property and protection of intellectual property interests, consumer protection, regulation of businesses to prevent market failures.
Real Estate 193
Legal Experience
Course Notes:
John Hafner, Attorney At Law, PSC- Founder and Managing Director of a boutique law firm practicing in civil litigation and corporate transactions with offices in San Diego, CA (main office) and Lexington, KY (satellite office).
- Approximately 12 years of litigation experience in matters of commercial contracts; commercial real estate; planning & zoning; securities; trusts & estates; civil rights; catastrophic torts; and appellate practice.
- Approximately 6 years of transaction experience in mergers & acquisitions; securities offerings & registration; taking companies public; corporate formation & dissolution; reverse mergers; negotiating & drafting corporate contracts; and commercial real estate.
Achievements in Practice
Course Notes:
- Top 100 Civil Litigators (California) - The National Trial Lawyers (2014-Present)
- Top 10 Nursing Home Litigators (California) - The National Trial Lawyers (2016-Present)
- Top 40 under 40 Civil Litigators (California) - The National Trial Lawyers (2014-2017)
- Panel Attorney (Elder Abuse) – California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (2016-Present)
- Panel Attorney (Nursing Home Patient Rights) - California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (2016-Present)
- Life Member - Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum (2013)
- Life Member - Million Dollar Advocates Forum (2013)
- Graduate - American Association for Justice Trial Lawyers College at Harvard Law School (2013)
- National Chair - American Bar Association - Corporate Counsel Committee, Young Lawyers Division (2007-08)
Education
Course Notes:
1- St. John’s University School of Law, New York, NY
Juris Doctor, June 2005
- Moot Court Honor Society
2- University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, KY
Visiting Law Student, 2005
3- Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
Bachelor of Science, Finance, May 1999
- Bennett Business Scholar; MSAA National Scholarship Recipient; Student Senate
4- Lexington Catholic High School, Lexington, KY
High School Diploma, 1995
Professional Memberships
Course Notes:
- State Bar of California
- Kentucky Bar Association
- Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
- Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
- U.S. Court of Appeals - Sixth Circuit
- Kentucky Real Estate Commission – Licensed Broker (escrowed)
