25 Years in Practice

Who we are

Founded in 2001, and still answering our own phones

Margaret Whitfield-Hale opened Oak Haven Counsel LLP after a decade at a larger Raleigh firm, on a straightforward premise: a family sorting out an estate deserves the same attention as a corporate client, and should not have to pay downtown rates to get it.

Twenty-five years later the firm is five attorneys and eight staff, working out of a restored building on Oakwood Avenue a few minutes from the Wake County Courthouse. We have stayed that size on purpose. It is large enough to cover six practice areas properly and small enough that the attorney you meet at the first consultation is the one who handles your matter through to the end.