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Florida

Law Department within Title Insurance Company - Responsible for Title

Greater Chicago Area

LITIGATION COUNSEL:• Represent commercial and residential tenants in eviction actions• Represent condominium homeowners in assessment enforcement actions• Represent homeowners in foreclosure actionsREAL ESTATE COUNSEL:• Negotiate commercial and residential lease workout agreements and modify leases • Negotiate assessment workout agreements and prepare agreements to effectuate same• Represent clients in sales and purchases of homes• Negotiate leases on behalf of commercial tenants

Chicago, Illinois

LITIGATION COUNSEL: • Litigation Counsel Team Member in Creditor Default Actions in Foreclosure and Bankruptcy• Litigation team member preparing dispositive motions, pleadings, responses and replies• Review and respond to discovery requests• Appear in District court on behalf of creditors in foreclosure actions. • Appear in Bankruptcy court on motions of creditors in bankruptcy actions.REAL ESTATE LITIGATION COUNSEL:• Lead Real Estate litigation counsel defending creditors in Declaratory actions, homeowner’s association disputes, land contract disputes; general title litigation, nuisance abatement, landlord-tenant, and other real estate related civil litigation.Lead Counsel of Major National Bank• Lead Counsel in representation of a Major National Bank defending against suits bought by plaintiff lenders, mechanic’s lien claimants, partition claimants, and actions in condemnation proceedings. REAL ESTATE AND TITLE COUNSEL:• Lead Real Estate and Title Counsel advising on matters relating to estates, lien priority, easements, title defects and curative measures.• Research, analyze, and interpret sources of law such as statutes, rules and regulations, ordinances, case law, and other legal opinions.• Prepare governance memos to internal teams and clients regarding varied legal and title issues.• Supervisory Counsel of title team in performance of title examination and title curative measures.

Greater Chicago Area

LITIGATION:• Litigation team member for title-related claim for 90M claim relating to River City Condominium• Responsible for working with litigation team to advise on potential title claims and related issues• Litigation attorney bringing suits against condominium developers and real estate tax actions.CONDOMINIUM DECONVERSIONS:• Real Estate Attorney for $90 Million sale of residential project• Negotiated more that $100 Million in Condominium DeconversionsDEVELOPMENT:• Structure condominium merger including researching law, case law, and title coverage• Prepare condominium development turnover documents PURCHASE, SALE AND LENDING:• Negotiated and prepared commercial real estate contracts for sale and acquisition of retail, restaurant, industrial, apartment buildings, commercial real estate and condominiums• Transactions include retail, restaurant, industrial, apartment buildings, and condominiums• Negotiated and prepared commercial corporate contracts for sale and purchase of businesses• Commercial loan representation of borrowers including SBA Loans, Fannie Mae, Private Financing

Evanston, Illinois

Demonstrated success in providing effective legal services to diverse organizations and individuals. • REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS: Practice includes commercial, industrial and residential real estate purchase and sales. • LEASING TRANSACTIONS: Practice includes negotiation of commercial retail, office and industrial real estate leasing. • ZONING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT: Demonstrated ability to help clients resolve zoning matters or to obtain zoning amendments in Chicago and on the North Shore. Practice includes Development Agreements. • ESTATE PLANNING: Advise clients on estate planning matters including, wills and trusts. Represented estate clients transferring property subject to review of probate court. • LIQUOR LICENSING: Practice includes liquor license applications. Representation of clients before liquor control boards in Chicago and North Shore communities. • BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS: Experience advising clients on entity formation, effectuating business transactions and general corporate matters.

In-House Counsel providing underwriting on commercial real estate transactions.

Chicago, Illinois

Negotiation of commercial contracts relating to commercial real estate.Negotiation of commercial mortgage loan documents. Analysis of development agreements, leases and contracts in connection with commercial and industrial real estate acquisitions. Preparation of corporate documents related to corporate purchase and sales.Management of large scale transactions on multiple technology platforms. Preparation of lease amendments and terminations.Able to effectuate corporate conversion, dissolution and merger.Management of paralegals in the preparation of corporate authority documents.

Chicago, Illinois

Law Professor teaching residential and commercial real estate; commercial lending, zoning and leasing.

Chicago, Illinois

Law Student focusing on Real Estate, Real Estate Litigation and Land Use Law

Chicago, Illinois

Worked at top-tiered law firms as a Commercial Real Estate and Due Diligence expert specializing in:Commercial Real Estate Transactions.Commercial Financing Transactions.Commercial Leasing Transactions.Title and survey analysis.Corporate due diligence review.Corporate formation.Litigation due diligence analysis.Legal research.

Master Of Laws (Ll.M.), Trial Advocacy And Mediation

Activities and Societies: Advocacy and Pro Bono

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Law, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Advocacy and Pro Bono

B.S., Cum Laude, Psychology

Activities and Societies: NITA Court for Civil Litigation