M. Darin Hammond

Practices
  • Real Estate & Foreclosure
  • Creditor Bankruptcy & Business Organizations
  • Collections & Civil Litigation
Professional Associations & Experience

Member of Utah, Idaho and Nevada Bar; Civil Trials before Utah, Idaho and Nevada Courts. Weber County Bar Association, Washoe County Bar Association, and Defense Counsel of Northern Nevada.

Real Estate: Assistant general counsel for Utah's largest independently owned real estate brokerage defending brokerages in negligence actions, title work, foreclosures, commission disputes, quiet title actions, 1031 exchanges, warranty actions and corporate protection.

Foreclosure: Counsel for one of the nation's largest banking associations doing residential mortgage foreclosures.

Business Organizations: General counsel work for business organizations of all types.

Bankruptcy: Creditor representation of chapters 7, 11, 12 and 13 of bankruptcy code including adversary proceedings, preference and avoidance litigation, scrutiny of debtor's statements and schedules, 341 meetings, valuation of collateral, treatment of security claims, exemptions, abandonments, motions for relief and violations of the automatic stay confirmation issues, objections to discharge.

Education
  • Juris Doctor, University of Idaho College of Law, 1992
  • Bachelor of Arts Degree (Spanish), Brigham Young University 1989
Other

Married fourteen years with four children, Fluent in conversational and written Spanish, Spanish Instructor at Brigham Young University, Associate member and Author for Idaho Law Review, Warren Scholarship, Langroise Scholarship, BYU Trustees Scholarship, Missionary Service in Mexico 1984/1985, Valedictorian and Student Body President of American Falls High, Eagle Scout.

Contact

dhammond@smithknowles.com