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UPWARD BOUND AND BRINGING CLIENTS ALONG FOR THE RIDE by Dan Baldwin
Employment law is where being a good lawyer is the most important. Anybody can calculate lost wages. I don’t even understand the point of getting a lawyer if the case is just about economic damages. A fair market value is easily calculable, but to address the non-economic damages to a client, to be able to tell the story of a human being and to take these abstract concepts and make them concrete, that’s the real challenge in this job,” says Corey A. Hall, founder of Hall Law Group. Hall formed Hall Law Group three and a half years ago. He currently employs a staff of six professionals. The firm’s typical client is someone who has been a victim of employer mistreatment and who wants to—and who is able to under the law—do something about it.
UPWARD BOUND Hall’s sense of justice springs from early childhood experiences. He grew up in a small, rural community with two older brothers who enjoyed “thumping” him around. As a hyperactive kid he also had run-ins with the local bullies. “The upside to this was that I was a pretty tough kid, especially compared to kids my age. When I would see someone getting bullied, I would step in and give the bully something to think about. I feel like a lot of lawyering is the adult version of this.” His life turned around in high school when his grades were so poor that the principal would not allow him back unless he attended a summer program at Humboldt State University called Upward Bound. “Upward Bound legitimately changed my life. I began my lifelong love of learning that summer. I had never read an entire book prior to Upward Bound. After Upward Bound, I was reading everything I could get my hands on. I came back determined to get into a four-year college, and I took every single course required to do that. This is still the accomplishment that I am most proud of in my life,” he says.
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Attorney Journals Orange County | Volume 197, 2022
Anthony Abbey (Litigation Director), Daniel Rodriguez (Director of Operations), Susan Leedy (Discovery Coordinator), Corey A. Hall (Founder), Ashley Ramirez (Senior Legal Assistant), and Neil Bhartia (Trial Attorney)
