Lana Kay Hawkins

Attorney Lana Hawkins assists clients in central and northern Alabama in a range of practice areas, including Family Law, Estate Planning, Probate Law Proceedings, Business and Corporate Law, and Litigation and Appeals. Before returning to live and practice in her hometown of Arab, Alabama in 2004, Ms. Hawkins practiced in Birmingham, Alabama; Palo Alto, California; and Washington D.C. Ms. Hawkins’ Family Law practice includes contested and non-contested divorces, child custody and visitation, child support awards and enforcement, post-minority support, modification proceedings, asset protection issues, paternity determination proceedings, adoptions, grandparent rights, and restraining orders stemming from domestic abuse. Ms. Hawkins’ is a children’s rights activist, advocating for the rights of the unborn child and for children who have been abused, neglected and forgotten. In 2015, she formed The Children’s Justice Institute, a non-profit organization whose mission is to study, advance and integrate children’s constitutional and legal rights in a new culture that recognizes both traditional and non-traditional family structures. Ms. Hawkins was named to the Top 100 Family Lawyers in 2014. She is a member of the Family Law Section of the Alabama State Bar. In the area of Estate Planning, Ms. Hawkins’ practice encompasses basic estate planning, including wills, medical directives, powers of attorney, and incapacity planning. She also provides more complex estate planning services to clients in need of revocable trusts, by-pass trusts, irrevocable insurance trusts, special needs trusts, and other specialized trust planning. In addition, Ms. Hawkins handles a wide range of Probate Law matters, including Guardianship and Conservatorship matters, Estate Administrations, and Estate Litigation. Ms. Hawkins has more than twenty years of Business and Corporate Law experience. Her corporate finance work includes handling private equity financing's, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, equity compensation programs, strategic alliances, insider trading issues, securities law compliance and shareholder and director representation. Ms. Hawkins has served on the Board of Directors and as Corporate Secretary for many of her corporate clients, and has represented a host of national and regional financial institutions and investment banks, including Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and UBS. She also has an extensive background in the formation, structuring, and representation of small and mid-sized companies.