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Rating: 10 
Excellent business law, bankruptcy law, and commercial real estate law knowledge and practical skills in analyzing and structuring transactions to meet individual and business client needs.
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Summary
Commercial real estate, trade secrets and technology transactions and litigation, including contracts, leases (ground, air rights, and space), financings, LLC operating agreements and disputes, teaming and licensing agreements, subcontracts, non-competes, reciprocal easements and other types of sharing agreements, and outsourcing. District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia
Practice Areas
- Real Estate Law
- Business Law
- Bankruptcy
- Foreclosure Defense
- Landlord Tenant
- Communications & Internet Law
Additional Practice Area
- Trade Secrets
Fees
- Credit Cards Accepted
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We work-on fixed fee arrangements for certain types of tasks.
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- New York
- Virginia
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Professional Experience
- Founder
- Samuelson Law, LLC
- - Current
Education
- University of Michigan Law School
- J.D.
- University of Pittsburgh
- B.A.
- Honors: Magna Cum Laude ; Dean's Lists Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
Awards
- Top Attorneys in Washington,DC
- SuperLawyers, Inc.
- Washington D.C. and Baltimore's Top Rated Lawyers"
- Legal Leaders
- Who's Who in American Law
- Marquis
- Who's Who in Washington
- Tiber
- AV preeminent 5.0 out of 5
- Martindale-Hubbell
- 10.0 (Superb) Rating
- Avvo
Professional Associations
- Litigation Counsel of America
- Member
- - Current
- Activities: Gave a program, on motions, at a conference in New York.
- Virginia State Bar # 88541
- Member
- - Current
- American College of Real Estate Lawyers
- Member
- - Current
- District of Columbia State Bar
- Member
- - Current
- Maryland State Bar
- Member
- - Current
- American Inns of Court, D.C. Chapter (Bankruptcy)
- Member
- -
- American Bar Association
- Member
- -
- Activities: former member of the governing Council of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
Publications
Articles & Publications
- Disposing of Excess Real Estate
- NACORE Corporate Real Estate Executive
- Does a Lease Mean What It Says?
- D.C. Building Industry Association Pipeline
- Practice Checklist for Drafting Leases III
- ALI-ABA
- The Retail Lease: What to Look for, Bargain for
- Legal Times
- To Foreign Purchasers Of U.S. Real Estate - You May Not Be Allowed To Keep It
- Core Compass
- Non-Competes in the Cybersecurity Industry
- U.S. Cybersecurity Magazine
- Some Unintended Consequences of Collaborating
- U.S. Cybersecurity Magazine
Speaking Engagements
- Buying Assets Out of Bankruptcy
- American Inns of Court
- 2010
- Mixed-Use and Condo/Hotel Workouts
- American Bar Association
- 2010
- 1031 Like-Kind Exchanges
- American College of Real Estate Lawyers
- 2010
- More on Condo/Hotel and Other Mixed-Use Workouts
- American Bar Association
- 2011
- LLC's and their Members in Bankruptcy
- 2012
- Title Problems that Only a Bankruptcy Court Can Solve
- 2012
- Update: LLCs and LLPs in Bankruptcy
- 2013
- How Lawyers Can Mess-Up Tranactions, Washington, DC
- Harvard Business School Club of Washington, DC
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