The firm's Real Estate Practice Group represents clients, including financial institutions, in a variety of real property transactions, from basic to complex. We are regularly involved with all types and levels of transactions relating to commercial, industrial, and manufacturing properties, including acquisitions, development and construction, sales transactions, leasing, and real estate financing. We assist in the negotiation and structuring of all types of real estate transactions and we prepare and review the documentation relating to all such matters. We take great pride in being able to counsel our clients with respect to all phases of real estate transactions, from the very first expression of interest to closing.

Our lawyers also provide professional services to lending institutions in the form of real estate trusts and other commercial and residential real estate matters.

In addition to transactional work, the firm represents real estate companies, developers, builders, investors, and individuals in a wide range of real estate litigation matters, including boundary disputes, zoning and planning disputes, sales and chain of title disputes, landlord/tenant, and real estate financing matters. Our expertise extends to construction law, including construction litigation. Barbara Duncombe has extensive experience and expertise in the area of construction law. She is a recognized authority in this area (as well as government contracts law) and she regularly presents at seminars focused on construction law.

We also have extensive experience in the area of commercial land use and eminent domain, including rezoning and appeals, variances, conditional use, and appropriation lawsuits.

Michael Booth oversees the Real Estate Practice Group and is directly involved in the more complex aspects of real estate matters. Much of Michael's work is related to a large national holding company located in Dayton with affiliates and properties located throughout the United States.

Through the firm's affiliation with Meritas, we have access to qualified law firms in every state, and in most countries, to assist us in working on complex real estate matters virtually anywhere outside Ohio, including internationally.