Description
Represent buyers, sellers, developers, landlords, tenants, and lenders in real estate transactions and disputes; draft and negotiate property documents; conduct due diligence; manage closings; advise on land use, zoning, and financing; and represent clients in court and before regulatory boards. May focus on commercial, residential, development, or real estate finance.
- • Advise clients on acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, development, and real estate financing.
- • Interpret and apply real property, land use, zoning, landlord-tenant, and environmental laws.
- • Analyze risks and probable outcomes of transactions, entitlements, and real estate disputes.
- • Draft, review, and negotiate purchase and sale agreements, leases, and letters of intent.
- • Prepare deeds, easements, covenants, HOA/condo documents, and related instruments.
- • Review title commitments, surveys, and reports; identify and cure title defects and encumbrances.
- • Conduct due diligence, including zoning, permitting, environmental, and building code reviews.
- • Coordinate and manage closings, escrow instructions, settlement statements, and recordings.
- • Represent clients in eviction, foreclosure, quiet title, boundary, and construction-related actions.
- • Present and summarize cases before courts, planning and zoning boards, and administrative agencies.
- • Research statutes, case law, ordinances, and regulations affecting property rights and development.
- • Prepare pleadings, motions, briefs, opinions, and appellate filings in real estate matters.
- • Negotiate settlements of landlord-tenant, construction, and other property disputes.
- • Collaborate with tax, environmental, finance, and construction professionals on deals and cases.
- • Search public records to establish chain of title, liens, easements, and property ownership.
- • Structure and document real estate loans, security instruments, SNDAs, and estoppel certificates.
- • Advise on 1031 like-kind exchanges and entity formation for property holdings.
- • Represent clients in obtaining entitlements, variances, and permits from governmental bodies.
- • Draft and negotiate development, construction, and access agreements.
- • Supervise paralegals and staff handling due diligence, filings, and closing checklists.
- • Perform practice management, docketing, and client billing related to real estate matters.
- • Act as escrow or closing agent and interface with title companies, lenders, and brokers.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
