Josh Funkhouser Email & Phone Number

Arizona

I provide comprehensive legal services across multiple areas of business and real estate law. My role encompasses handling complex matters in mergers and acquisitions, contract review and preparation, and entity formation. I also represent clients in short-term rental law, commercial landlord and tenant representation, and construction law. I guide my clients through intricate legal matters, ensuring robust and effective solutions for their business and real estate needs across Arizona, Texas, and Ohio.

I provide comprehensive legal services across multiple areas of business and real estate law. My role encompasses handling complex matters in mergers and acquisitions, contract review and preparation, and entity formation. I also represent clients in short-term rental law, commercial landlord and tenant representation, and construction law. I guide my clients through intricate legal matters, ensuring robust and effective solutions for their business and real estate needs across Arizona, Texas, and Ohio.

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

• Prepare pleadings, motions, discovery documents and memoranda for real estate, title defect, construction defect, provisional remedy, partition, securities, insurance bad-faith, collections, and secured transaction matters.• Litigate civil disputes from inception through trial.• Engage in pre-litigation counseling and planning, business formation and real estate transactions.• Conduct all aspects of discovery, including preparing witnesses for depositions, conducting and defending depositions and drafting requests, responses and disclosures.• Assist clients with business-succession planning.• Prepare and negotiate transactional documents related to real estate and business transactions.

Scottsdale, Arizona

• Prepare pleadings, motions, discovery documents and memoranda for real estate, title defect, construction defect, provisional remedy, partition, securities, insurance bad-faith, collections, and secured transaction matters.• Litigate civil disputes from inception through trial.• Engage in pre-litigation counseling and planning, business formation and real estate transactions.• Conduct all aspects of discovery, including preparing witnesses for depositions, conducting and defending depositions and drafting requests, responses and disclosures.• Assist clients with business-succession planning.• Prepare and negotiate transactional documents related to real estate and business transactions.

Lorain, Oh

• Practice general civil litigation, including commercial real estate, estate planning, probate, business law, landlord/tenant, personal injury, and bankruptcy. • Independently manage extensive caseload from intake to conclusion.• Negotiate, draft, and review purchase agreements, intercreditor agreements, promissory notes, lease subordination, nondisturbance and attornment agreements, real estate closing/transfer documents, and commercial and residential leases. • Handle commercial loan matters, including acquisition, development and construction loans.• Litigate, as first chair, bank lien, judgment lien and mechanic’s lien foreclosures, construction-defect matters, landlord-tenant disputes, bankruptcy, and declaratory judgment and partition actions.• Conduct all aspects of discovery, including drafting requests and responses, and preparing witnesses for depositions.

City Of Lorain Prosecutor'S Office

• Prosecuted all aspects of criminal matters including the filing of criminal charges, plea negotiations, felony preliminary hearings, misdemeanor bench and jury trials, sentencing, and appeals.• Appeared for hearings and argued motions daily before the judges of the Lorain Municipal Court.• Researched civil matters for the law department and assisted with civil litigation. • Prepared advisory memoranda regarding criminal and civil matters, including the seizure and forfeiture of property, civil departmental liability, federal regulatory issues, and police internal affairs.• Advised the police department on criminal procedure rules and regulations.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society

B.A., Economics

Activities and Societies: 91.1 WDUB DJ