Member

Representative Experience

• Advising sellers, purchasers, and brokers in negotiating real estate sale and purchase agreements of commercial, industrial, mineral, and residential properties, and drafting transactional documents
  
• Drafting environmental conservation easement deeds for the promotion and preservation of greenspace, wetlands, wildlife habitation, and other purposes in connection with development/construction projects in West Virginia
  
• Assisting clients to obtain special permits, variances, rezonings, ordinance amendments, and subdivision approvals before municipal and county authorities in West Virginia
  
• Defending municipal zoning and land use ordinances before B.Z.A., Circuit Court and West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
  
• Assisting clients in the purchase, sale, and other disposition of Department of Transportation, Division of Highways surplus properties and former turnpike properties
  
• Advising landlords and tenants with respect to negotiating leases of commercial, office, warehouse, new construction, and residential properties, drafting lease documents, and representation in connection with lease disputes
  
• Representing urban renewal authority and municipalities on eminent domain and various land use, zoning, acquisition and property disposition matters
  
• Advising parties in secured lending commercial, construction loan, and residential transactions, including drafting loan documents
  
• Assisting parties in connection with mechanic’s lien claims and other lien priority disputes in various construction and loan projects
  
• Agent for First American Title Insurance Company, Old Republic National Title Insurance Company and Chicago Title Insurance Company
  
  

Education

• West Virginia University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1975
  
• West Virginia University, J.D., 1979
  
  

Admissions

• West Virginia State Bar, Member, Real Estate, Zoning and Land Use Committee, Vice Chair; Opinion Subcommittee of Corporations, Banking and Business Law Committee
  
• West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
  
• United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia
  
• United States Supreme Court
  
  

Affiliations

• Kanawha County Bar Association
  
• West Virginia Bar Association
  
• American Bar Association, Member, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section; Law Practice Management Section; Women Rainmakers Interest Group
  
• American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Fellow, State Chairperson
• American College of Real Estate Lawyers, Fellow
  
  

Awards and Distinctions

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law
• Listed in West Virginia Super Lawyers, Real Estate
• Listed in Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers, Real Estate
  
  

Publications

• Contributing author, “Title Examination in West Virginia,” Lorman, 2000, 2001
  
• Contributing author, “Examining and Evaluating Title to Real Property in West Virginia,” PESI, 1997
  
• Contributing author, “Advanced Principles of Title Insurance in West Virginia,” NBI, 1997
  
• Contributing author, “Real Estate 1995,” WVCLE, 1995
  
• Contributing author, “Advanced Real Estate Law in West Virginia,” NBI, 1995, 1990
  
• Contributing author, “Residential and Commercial Evictions in West Virginia,” NBI, 1994
  
• Contributing author, “West Virginia Survey Issues: Resolution and Remediation,” NBI, 1995
  
• Contributing author, “Current Issues in Commercial Real Estate Leases in West Virginia,” NBI, 1993
  
• Contributing author, “Boundary Law in West Virginia,” NBI, 1993, 1991
  
  

Other

• Frequent speaker at legal, professional and civic seminars
  
• West Virginia Law Review, Member, 1978 – 1979
  
• Charleston Renaissance Corporation, Member, Board of Directors; Chair, Legal Committee
  
• The West Virginia Law School Association, Member, Board of Governors

Practice Areas Referenced

• Energy & Public Utilities
• Real Estate