History of the Firm

Hilburn, Calhoon, Harper, Pruniski & Calhoun, Ltd. was created in 1988 through the merger of a North Little Rock firm and a Little Rock firm. One of the merging firms, Hilburn, Calhoon, Harper & Pruniski, Ltd., was formed in 1973 by two young lawyers with an office in downtown North Little Rock and by 1980 had grown to the fifth largest law firm in Arkansas. The other merging firm, Owens, McHaney & Calhoun, was formed in the 1890's in Little Rock by three leading members of the Arkansas bar. The Firm is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.

The Firm currently has a staff of nineteen (19) attorneys. In addition, the Firm maintains law clerks as part of its staff. The Firm offers a full range of services and specialties, with the greatest concentration in the areas of commercial and general litigation, labor relations and employment, insurance defense, family law, real estate, securities, bonds, taxation, bankruptcy, corporate transactions, environmental, administrative, ERISA, estate planning, mergers and acquisitions and banking. The firm's demonstrated abilities in these various areas of practice has attracted a broad, diversified and impressive client base.

Among the Firm's many clients are:

Merrill Lynch, Union Bank of Benton, IBM Corporation, The Kroger Co., Rineco Chemical Industries, Inc., Kimberly Clark Corporation, Deere & Company; Deere Credit, Inc., John Deere Industrial Equipment Company, John Deere Insurance Company, Navistar Financial Corporation, Navistar International Transportation Corporation, Beach Abstract & Guaranty Company, Candy Bouquet International, Inc., Russell Chevrolet Company, Lexicon, Inc., Darragh Company, North Little Rock Waste Water Utility, Essick Air Products, North Little Rock Housing Authority, Vanliner Insurance Company, Paccar Financial Corporation, Dixie Restaurants, Inc., Kubota Tractor Company, Centennial Bank, C.B.M. Construction Company, Inc., Bank of Oklahoma, N.A.

To encourage mutual support and interaction, the Firm is not physically departmentalized; rather, each attorney contributes to the overall effort to provide complete and comprehensive service to its clients.