Timothy Hale earned his B.A. degree from Cal State Sacramento in 1992, and his J.D. degree from the University of Utah College of Law in 1996 where he was a member of the Law Review. After being admitted to practice in California in 1996, he has focused on civil litigation. He participated in his first jury trial to verdict in 1998, and has served as lead counsel in trial and binding arbitration of a number of lawsuits.

In 2000 he worked with a team of lawyers responsible for obtaining on behalf of a single client what is believed to be the first million-dollar pre-trial settlement in the history of the clergy-abuse scandal. Since then he has served and continues to serve as lead counsel for numerous victims of childhood sexual abuse, settling thirty-three of their cases to date for an average of over $1 million per case.

In June of 2007 and March of 2009 he drafted briefs and orally argued on behalf of twenty-five clergy abuse victims for the publication of Franciscan priest- perpetrator personnel files, and obtained two groundbreaking rulings in the Los Angeles Superior Court; that the privacy rights of the perpetrators were outweighed by the compelling State interest in preventing the future sexual abuse of children; and that the personnel files should be released to the public.

In 2008 he was part of a team of clergy abuse lawyers named as Finalists for Trial Lawyer of the Year Award by the Public Justice Foundation for the work that resulted in the Los Angeles and San Diego clergy abuse global settlements in 2007.

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Timothy Hale
(805) 963-2345
e-mail: timothy@nps-law.com

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Practice Areas:
Personal Injury
Sexual Abuse