CARR KENNEDY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Shareholder of Carr
Mr. Helsten is a shareholder of Carr, Kennedy, Peterson & Frost. Mr. Helsten's practice focuses primarily on transactional business and real estate matters, including commercial, industrial, and agricultural real estate sales, leasing and development, land use, and commercial and business transactions. Mr. Helsten also advises clients on the organization and maintenance of business entities, including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies.
Mr. Kennedy is a shareholder with Carr, Kennedy, Peterson & Frost. His practice concentrates on labor and employment law, including counseling employers on matters involving workplace discrimination and harassment, ADA compliance, wrongful discharge, wage and hour laws, and employee handbooks, policies and procedures. Mr. Kennedy also represents employers in employment litigation in state and federal courts and administrative agencies.
Practice Areas
Labor and Employment
Education
Southwestern University School of Law, J.D., 2004
University of California at Santa Barbara, B.A., 2000
Evan Delgado is a shareholder in Carr, Kennedy Peterson & Frost. For over 25 years, Evan has practiced in the areas of estate planning, tax planning, trust and probate administration and business planning and transactions. Evan is certified by the State Bar of California as a specialist in both Taxation Law and in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law. Evan also holds a Master of Laws degree in taxation.
In Evan's practice he assists clients with both modest and high net worth estates in all aspects of estate planning, including the preparation of revocable trusts, wills, powers of attorney and health care directives. Trust planning is central to effective estate and tax planning. Evan's practice includes the creation and maintenance of numerous types of trusts to achieve clients' goals such as trusts to manage beneficiaries' inheritances, special needs trusts to maintain beneficiaries' public benefits eligibility, and a number of irrevocable trusts created for tax planning purposes, including insurance trusts, generation skipping trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts and charitable trusts.
Evan represents many business owners, farmers and ranchers and timberland owners in their estate and business matters. Such representation often includes the creation and maintenance of entities in which to conduct business and hold and gift assets, such as limited liability companies, limited and general partnerships and corporations. Evan is actively involved in assisting these clients in succession and estate planning to accomplish their goals of efficiently transferring business and other assets to the next generation in a format most likely to ensure the continued success of clients' enterprises.
Evan provides legal representation as needed by trustees in the administration of trusts following the death of the creator of the trust to assist in an efficient trust administration. Evan also represents personal representatives in probate administrations and represents trust and probate beneficiaries in understanding and, if needed, asserting their rights as beneficiaries.
Practice Areas
Estate Planning, Tax Planning, Trust and Probate Administration
Mr. Ashby is a shareholder of Carr, Kennedy, Peterson & Frost, and is the lead attorney in the firm's transactional business and real estate practice. His primary areas of practice include commercial, industrial, and agricultural real estate sales, leasing and development; land use; commercial and business transactions; and organization and maintenance of business entities, including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies.
Randy Nelson is a shareholder of Carr, Kennedy, Peterson and Frost. He has more than twenty-five years of experience representing and counseling individuals, businesses, and quasi-public entities in a broad range of general civil litigation matters in state and federal court.
Mr. Nelson is a trial attorney whose practice focuses on all phases of litigation, arbitration, and mediation in the areas of real estate, construction, business and commercial disputes, financial elder abuse, and trust litigation. Although Mr. Nelson strongly advocates the use of mediation as a way of resolving disputes, he has successfully tried numerous jury trials and court trials in state and federal courts throughout California, as well as having successfully obtained awards for clients in numerous binding arbitrations.
Mr. Nelson is rated "AV Preeminent" by Martindale-Hubbel, which is the highest peer review rating an attorney can receive. This rating reflects the professional excellence and very high ethical standards that characterize Mr. Nelson's practice.
Practice Areas
General Civil Litigation in all State and Federal Courts in California