At Georgia Hamilton & Company (“the Practice”), we do our best to understand and be responsive to our clients’ needs, which can be dynamic. We firmly believe that a strong indicator of our success lies in the satisfaction our clients. To ensure this, we start by providing in-depth consultation aimed at unearthing all the issues, providing wholesome solutions to the issues they face as well as identifying and assisting our clients in taking preventative measures to avoid even latent legal pitfalls and their consequences. To this end, we are strongly committed to extensive and on-going research, careful legal review and analysis and the exercise of thoughtful and discerning judgment.

We also place a high premium on our professional network as well as cultivating strong, vibrant, and supportive relationships through timely settlement of invoices and the sharing of referrals.

Our focus at Georgia Hamilton & Company is both inward and outward so, for our immediate and extended communities, we invest in their legal education through the provision of pro bono advice and the hosting of workshops and other public education activities.

Our mission to serve our clients and community would be impossible without the commitment of well-trained and motivated staff. To this end, part of our overall mission is to provide a relaxed and comfortable working environment with optimum technological support. We also place a strong emphasis on mutuality of respect as well as the ongoing promotion of our employees’ professional development, through in-house training as well as sponsored training opportunities.

About Georgia Hamilton & Co.

Founded in 2004

50 people in their team


Practice areas
Civil & Human Rights
Family
Real Estate
Business
Elder Law
Employment & Labor
Intellectual Property

Languages spoken
English

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Practice areas

Civil & Human Rights

This aspect of our practice is wide-ranging and involves representation of clients from the most rural parts of Jamaica to the most sophisticated entrepreneur and organizations. We have been and are involved in litigation concerning the defence and prosecution of claims concerning:

  • Agreements for Sale of Land
  • Adverse Possession of Land
  • Administrative Law
  • Contracts
  • Custody
  • Debt Collection
  • Defamation
  • Divorce
  • Employment
  • Enforcement of Judgements
  • Family Law
  • Judicial Review
  • Insurance
  • Leases
  • Maintenance of (former) spouses & children
  • Partnerships
  • Personal Injuries
  • Property Damage
  • Property Rights
  • Shareholder Rights & Entitlement
Animal Law
Civil Rights
Constitutional Law
Disability
Disability Insurance
Discrimination
Education Law
Faith-Based Law
Military Law
Native People
Social Security Disability
State, Local, and Municipal Law
Veterans Benefits

Family

This aspect of our practice is wide-ranging and involves representation of clients from the most rural parts of Jamaica to the most sophisticated entrepreneur and organizations. We have been and are involved in litigation concerning the defence and prosecution of claims concerning:

  • Agreements for Sale of Land
  • Adverse Possession of Land
  • Administrative Law
  • Contracts
  • Custody
  • Debt Collection
  • Defamation
  • Divorce
  • Employment
  • Enforcement of Judgements
  • Family Law
  • Judicial Review
  • Insurance
  • Leases
  • Maintenance of (former) spouses & children
  • Partnerships
  • Personal Injuries
  • Property Damage
  • Property Rights
  • Shareholder Rights & Entitlement
Adoption
Annulment
Child Abuse
Child Custody
Child Support
Child Visitation
Divorce & Separation
Domestic Violence
Father's Rights
Marriage

Real Estate

We have a wealth of experience in handling real estate transactions representing local and overseas clients with a variety of needs and expectations. We have represented the very anxious first-time homeowner to the very sophisticated investor and lender. Our practice areas include the handling of:

  • Applications for Change of Use of Land
  • Applications for Title by Adverse Possessor/s
  • Caveats against registration as well as dealing with land
  • Concession Agreements
  • First Registration
  • Lost Title Applications
  • Modification & Variation of Restrictive Covenants
  • Developments and Lease Developments
  • Property Purchases & Sales financed by cash, mortgage, or both or even a vendor’s mortgage
  • Re-registration and rectification of boundaries
  • Registration of Caveats, Mortgages & Charges
  • Residential & Commercial leases
  • Vesting Orders
Brokerage
Commercial Real Estate
Foreclosure
Housing, Construction & Development
Land Use & Zoning
Landlord & Tenant
Mortgage
Natural Resources
Real Estate Contracts and Negotiations
Real Estate Due Diligence

Business

We offer a variety of services in this area to include:

  • Preparing, vetting, and negotiating corporate finance and securities instruments
  • Preparing and vetting various commercial documents including
    • letters of intent
    • MOUs
    • commercial leases
    • concession agreements
    • licences
    • shareholders’ agreements
    • partnership agreements
    • joint venture agreements
    • media production agreements
    • investment agreements
    • non disclosure agreements
    • confidentiality agreements
  • Preparing and registering securities to include
    • promissory notes
    • deeds of guarantee and indemnity
    • mortgage instruments
    • debentures and charges
  • Preparing legal opinions on a variety of corporate and commercial matters
Administrative
Aviation
Banking & Finance
Board of Investment (BOI)
Business Registration
Contract
Due Diligence
Employer
Environment
Financial Services Regulation
Franchising
International
International Trade Law
Investment
Legal Document
Licensing
Merger & Acquisition
New Business Formation
Nonprofit & Charitable Organizations
Office Solutions
Oil, Gas & Energy
Securities
Tax
Tax Increment Financing

Elder Law

We recognise the need of most, if not all our private clients, to organize their affairs to deal with issues surrounding both physical and mental incapacity and, of course, death. We also know the importance of organising their affairs in such a way that, while the Revenue gets its measure, there is enough left to provide for their loved ones.

To assist our clients, we offer services in:

  • Advising on and preparing pre-nuptial agreements
  • Advising on the importance of life and health insurance
  • Applications for grants of representation
  • Establishing our clients as tax residents in the countries of their choice with the assistance of experts in those jurisdictions
  • Guiding personal representatives in faithfully fulfilling their roles as fiduciaries
  • Incorporating and maintaining International Business Companies in low or no-tax jurisdictions with the assistance of experts in those jurisdictions
  • Preparing Living & Testamentary Trusts
  • Preparing and processing Powers of Attorney
  • Revocation of Powers of Attorney
Elder Abuse Law
Estate Planning
Probate
Trusts
Will & Testament

Employment & Labor

We represent both employers and employees, always emphasizing the need for good industrial relations where worker is adequately protected, and employer can find guidance.

Our services involve:

  • Representation at conciliatory meetings at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security
  • Appearances before the Industrial Disputes Tribunal
  • Drafting of Contracts for Services & Contracts of Service
  • Advising employers on
    • redundancies
    • retirement procedures
    • reorganizations
    • reclassification exercises
    • their obligations under our labour laws
  • Chairing disciplinary hearings
Employment Benefits & Executive Compensation
Employment Rights
Hiring & Firing
Job Discrimination
Labor Law
Pension
Retirement
Sexual Harassment
Social Security
Wage & Hour
Wrongful Termination

Intellectual Property

This has been an emerging part of our practice with our focus being on:
 

  • Advising on and registering copyrightable interests
  • Carrying out trademark searches
  • Registering trademarks
  • Opposing the registration of trademarks
Art & Cultural Property Law
Copyright
Patent
Trademark

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