
Lincoln
W. Hobbs, Esq., of Hobbs & Olson |Carpenter Hazlewood, has significant
experience in all aspects of community association law, having represented
hundreds of associations, dozens of owners and numerous developers in his
thirty-year career.
Hobbs
has successfully pursued construction defect lawsuits on behalf of condominium
associations, with two settlements in excess of one million dollars, several
six-figure settlements and numerous smaller settlements and verdicts. In
addition, he received a judge-awarded judgment in excess of 1.8 million in
connection with construction defects on a single-family residence.
Hobbs
is active in numerous professional and community service projects, having
served for years as a member of the Utah State Bar's Ethics and Discipline
Panel, and as an officer of the Utah State Bar Labor and Employment Section, of
which he served as chair in 2002-03. Hobbs is also the founder and past
president of the Utah Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI), an
organization dedicated to fostering vibrant, responsive, competent community
associations. In the spring of 2003, CAI gave Hobbs the Award of Excellence in
Chapter Leadership, in recognition of his service to CAI and the Utah community
association industry.
In
the Spring of 2004, Hobbs was the first Utah attorney in Utah to be inducted
into the College of Community Association Lawyers, In 2012, Lincoln was
elected by his peers to serve on the College's Board of Governors. In 2015, he
was elected as President of CCAL for calendar year 2016. Hobbs also serves as a
member of the CAI International Faculty, teaching several courses every year throughout
the World, on community association (condominium and HOA) management,
communication, governance and risk management. Hobbs also served as the
president of the board of the Foundation for Community Association Research (CAIRF). In 2009,
Lincoln compiled and edited, with others, the CAIRF Best Practices guide to
green practices and sustainability for community associations.
Hobbs
has repeatedly and consistently been recognized with the highest available
rating ("AV") from Martindale-Hubbell, the nation's leading directory
of attorneys and law firms. He has been consistently recognized as one of
Utah's "Legal Elite" by Utah Business Magazine, for many years in the
category of labor and employment law, and most recently also being listed for
2013 in the field of civil litigation.
Hobbs
has also repeatedly been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best
Lawyers in America® in three practice areas -- Litigation, Construction and
Litigation and Labor and Employment Law. He has also been repeatedly recognized
as a Mountain States SuperLawyer with real estate law as his primary area of
practice, reflecting his selection as one of the top 5 percent of attorneys in
Utah, as chosen by his peers through the independent research of Law &
Politics. Lincoln was recently selected to appear once again in the upcoming
edition of SuperLawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition.
Hobbs
is licensed to practice law in the state and federal courts in Utah, Idaho and
Wyoming.
Education
- B.A., University of Utah
- J.D., University of Utah College of Law
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