Mrs. Hayes practices in the firm’s Wealth and Business Planning Group. She is an associate attorney in the firm’s Savannah office. Her primary areas of concentration are taxation, trusts and estate planning, corporate law, and probate and the administration of estates and trusts. Mrs. Hayes has experience advising business clients on a range of corporate legal matters, including the purchase and sale of businesses, entity formation, tax, and other commercial transaction issues. Mrs. Hayes’s experience also includes the creation, modification, and termination of trusts and the creation of estate plans with tax considerations.
Originally from Americus, Georgia, Mrs. Hayes now resides in Savannah with her husband, Jackson.
Areas of Practice
- Business Law and Transactions
- Corporate Law
- Estate Planning
- Estate Administration
Education
- University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, Florida(LL.M., 2023)
- Mercer University School of Law, Macon, Georgia (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 2022)
- University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (B.A., cum laude, 2019)
Bar Admissions
- Georgia, 2022
Professional Associations and Memberships
- State Bar of Georgia (Member, Taxation Section, Fiduciary Law Section, Business Law Section)
- Georgia Association for Women Lawyers (Member, Savannah Chapter)
- Savannah Bar Association (Member, Young Lawyers Division)
- Savannah Community Foundation (Member, Emerging Leaders Committee)
Publications
- "Amazon’s Prime Reliance on the First Amendment’s Free Expression Protections" in Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., 73 Mercer L. Rev. 727, 2022.
