About Mark Hodge 

In his almost three decades of practicing law, Mark has extensive experience in advising companies and individuals in many areas surrounding business dealings and transactions, real estate acquisitions and sales, lease transactions, and commercial litigation. Throughout his practice, Mark has experience working with start-up entities, closely-held companies, family-owned businesses and publicly traded corporations. Mark’s work has included representing a global-leading fund owner concerning its ownership, management, and sale of a preeminent retail shopping center in Arkansas. 

Mark regularly serves as lead counsel or Arkansas counsel representing lending institutions, developers and borrowers in real estate and asset-backed credit facilities. In addition, Mark also has substantial experience representing public and private entities seeking and performing public contracts. His work in public contracts has also led to Mark representing clients in negotiations and disputes with administrative bodies, including procurement protests. Over the past 25 years, Mark has served as outside general counsel to a nationwide software licensing and services company doing business with private entities as well as state and federal agencies.

Over the past several years, Mark has worked with clients involved in trust and estate administration and disputes.  This representation has led to Mark working with executors and heirs as well as trustees and beneficiaries in matters ranging from advising trustees in matters related to trust administration to serving as counsel in trust and estate litigation pending in probate courts throughout Arkansas.



Awards & Education

AREAS OF PRACTICE

  • General Business and Corporate Law
  • Commercial Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions 
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Real Estate Transactions
  • Banking and Finance
  • Estate and Trust Administration and Litigation
  • Licensing Relationships and Contracts
  • Contract, Procurement and Administrative Law

EDUCATION

  • Ouachita Baptist University (B.A., with honors, 1994)
  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law (J.D., with honors, 1997); Editorial Board, U.A.L.R. Law Review, 1996-97
  • Practical Regulatory Training, Center for Public Utilities, New Mexico State University (2017).

ADMISSIONS

  • All Arkansas state trial and appellate courts
  • U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • U.S. District Courts and U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
  • All Arkansas trial and appellate courts, 1997
  • United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
  • United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
  • United States Courts of Appeals for the Eighth Circuits

ASSOCIATIONS & RECOGNITIONS

  • American Bar Association
  • Arkansas Bar Association, tenured Member of House of Delegates
  • Pulaski County Bar Association
  • American Inns of Court, William R. Overton Chapter (1997-2004); Henry Woods Chapter (2004-present)
  • Arkansas Bar Foundation, Fellow
  • Rating of AV Preeminent with Martindale Hubbel
  • Mid-South Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2008- 2013
  • Arkansas Bar Association Frank C. Elcan II Leadership Award
  • Arkansas Bar Association President’s Award
  • Arkansas Bar Association Award of Excellence
  • Arkansas Bar Association Golden Gavel Award

PRESENTATIONS & CONTRIBUTIONS

  • Presenter of Continuing Legal Education Programming, Negotiating a Purchase and Sale Agreement, 2023 Arkansas Bar Association Annual Meeting, June 2023
  • Member and Comment Contributor, Editorial Board of Arkansas Real Estate Review
  • Contributor and Editor, Arkansas Form Book, Real Estate Forms, Creditor Rights Forms
  • Presenter of Continuing Legal Education Programming, Advising Foreign Investors in US - Tax, Business, and Immigration Matters, January and June 2016
  • Note, Supreme Court Upholds Thirty-Day Moratorium on Targeted Direct-Mail By Plaintiff’s Lawyers in Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc., 19 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L.J. 131 (1996)

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arkansas, Board of Directors (2002-present, past-present and office)
  • Little Rock Metro Rotary Club, President (2005-06)
  • Junior Deputy Baseball Coach
  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of Central Arkansas, Annual Gala Event Chair (2014)

 

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