Attorney Lloyd R. Hampton has demonstrated ability to successfully handle complex cases involving traumatic brain injury, paralysis, and catastrophic injury. Attorney Hampton's background and training provides him with recognized ability to analyze and determine the cause of industrial and transportation accidents. These complex cases require a tremendous amount of research and analysis to be successfully concluded.

      Attorney Lloyd R. Hampton has a tremendous amount of personal hands on experience with complex machinery including farm equipment, heavy lift transport helicopters, and mining equipment including dozers, wheel loaders, drag line shovels and drilling equipment.

      Attorneys Lloyd and John Hampton recently represented a truck driver whose truck was struck by a train in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania in March of 2001. The case was tried in the Federal District Court in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in March of 2003. After one week of trial, a successful resolution was achieved for the client and his family.

      Attorney Hampton and an affiliated law firm have also successfully represented a brain injured child which resulted in a confidential resolution and settlement. That case involved the failure of a hospital and it's physicians to diagnose a skull fracture and the resultant inter-cranial damage that occurred due to the fracture.

      Attorney Lloyd R. Hampton will also accept out of state cases. He has previously been admitted in other states por hac vice, having represented local clients injured in out of state accidents. Attorney Hampton strongly believes in an old Marine Corps credo: Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere. His goal, quite simply, is: "Accomplish the mission."

      Attorney John M. Hampton's area's of expertise lie in real estate development, family law and municipal law. Attorney John Hampton has personally directed and administered the development of the Rattling Run residential development from this project's inception to it's continued growth. This project is situated in the Town of Gordon, Pennsylvania. Attorney Hampton identified the viability of the project, negotiated the agreements for provision of water, sewer, gas and electric together with procuring the engineering for the project and obtaining the necessary bonding and governmental zoning and building permits. He then personally orchestrated the installation of sewer, water, gas and electric, the excavation of foundations, the acquisition of bank financing and personal investment, sale of real estate and design of residential units for sale.

      Attorney John M. Hampton also is quite adept at handling family law matters including divorce and wills and estates. He was recently featured in an article in the Legal Intelligencer, regarding a case that was on appeal in the Pennsylvania Superior Court dealing with disposition of a personal remains and burial. John frequently provides cogent, realistic and insightful advise to clients with family law problems.

      Attorney John M. Hampton has served on the Board of Directors of a local hospital and is involved in numerous community projects including his work as municipal solicitor of a local township that is currently installing a sewer collection facility. Attorney John M. Hampton has worked with numerous engineers, banks, financing professional and township officials in furtherance of this project.

      Attorney John M. Hampton also practices in the areas of personal injury, concentrating on the damages aspects of the case. He has worked with numerous financial planners, health and life care professionals and medical institutions in developing plans for care for those that are catastrophically injured.

      Christina E. Hale maintains a general practice of law at Hampton and Hampton, L.L.C. with an emphasis on personal injury plaintiff work, workers' compensation claimant work, social security, and municipal law. Christina joined the firm in 2006 after gaining a wealth of experience and knowledge in a wide range of practice areas over the preceding five years. Christina compliments the firm, which is conveniently located on Route 61 in Fountain Springs, Pennsylvania and, with Attorneys Lloyd R. and John M. Hampton, offers legal services in cases including complex catastrophic personal injury as a result of medical malpractice, industrial accidents, train accidents, auto and tractor trailor accidents; workers' compensation; social security disability; real estate; corporations; domestic relations; criminal defense; DUI defense; and wills, trusts, and estates. The firm is proud to represent clients locally, in other states and internationally.

      Christina's personal injury practice currently enables her to represent plaintiffs who were victims of auto accidents, tractor trailor accidents, horse and buggy accidents, ATV accidents, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, premises liability accidents, and slip and fall accidents. She represents plaintiffs through all aspects of their case striving to secure fair and just compensation for their personal injuries.

      In addition to her catastrophic personal injury practice, Christina enjoys workers' compensation law and representing injured workers whose workers' compensation benefits have been threatened or denied after suffering a work related injury as a result of a workplace accident, injury, cumulative trauma, or exposure. Christina's personal injury and workers' compensation clients are often so severely injured that they are unable to work indefinitely and Christina also represents them in claims for social security disability and supplemental security income benefits before the social security administration.

      Christina also presently serves as the solicitor for the Township of West Mahanoy, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, In her municipal practice, Christina provides day to day advice to the Board of Supervisors, attends regular and special meetings, collaborates with the Township engineers, drafts ordinances, contracts, resolutions, and engages in litigation of township matters. Christina currently is overseeing a municipal sewer project which requires her to work closely with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, and the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (PENNVEST), as well as other state and federal agencies to ensure municipal compliance with numerous environmental laws for future generations.

      As part of her general practice, Christina also engages in limited criminal representation of clients charged with DUI (driving under the influence), family law including divorce and custody, real estate, and corporations.

      Christina has been honored for two consecutive years by being chosen from among thousands of Pennsylvania attorneys as a 2005 and 2006 Pennsylvania Rising Star Super Lawyer. Pennsylvania Rising Star Super Lawyers, as published in the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazines, represent the top 2.5% of attorneys across the state who are 40 years old or younger.

      Yet, what Christina finds most satisfying about the practice of law is advocating for her clients. Christina, along with Attorneys Lloyd R. Hampton and John M. Hampton, maintains close relationships with clients and provides personal attention and problem solving to each case. Christina attributes the numerous calls, cards, letters, and gestures of thanks that she has received from people and families she has represented over the years and for whom she was able to obtain a level of justice among her greatest honors.

      Prior to joining Hampton and Hampton, Christina held an associate attorney position with Michael J. O'Connor and Associates for five years representing workers' compensation, social security disability, and personal injury clients as well as serving as the municipal solicitor for the Borough of Frackville, Borough of Tremont, and West Mahanoy Township.

      Christina earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in May 1998 from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania and then her juris doctor degree in May 2001 from the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania as well as before the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Schuylkill County Bar Association, the board of directors of the Schuylkill County Bar Association, the scholarship committee for the Schuylkill County Bar Association, the Northumberland County Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Brehon Law Society, and the North Schuylkill Health Advisory Council.

      Christina, who is also an adjunct faculty member of the McCann School of Business and Technology, Pottsville, Pennsylvania resides in Butler Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania with her husband Howard C. Smith and their two labrador retrievers Guinness and Jagger. In her free, time Christina enjoys gardening, swimming, reading, travel, golf, and Penn State Nittany Lion football.

To contact Christina E. Hale, Esquire, email her at
ceh@hamptonandhamptonlaw.com

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