Kathleen Douglas is the partner in charge of the firm's large residential/mix-use real estate department.  Ms. Douglas oversees and supervises a staff of approximately 8 attorneys and 10 paralegals.  In that capacity, it is her duty to ensure the proper implementatiuon of closing procedures and policies, the proper use of legal documentation, and the integration of new business and new procedures within the department.

 

In addition, as a member of the Banking Department, Ms. Douglas regularly advises banks and credit unions on a wide variety of regulatory and compliance matters; issues often included for review involve truth-in-lending laws, RESPA and fair lending, and, she also assists in new product development in this regard.

 

Ms. Douglas has extensive commercial real estate transactional experience.  Through her representation of corporations, banks, other entities and individual clients, Ms. Douglas has extensive real estate transactional and leasing experience including: drafting and negotiating commercial, shopping center, bank branch, office and store leases and subleases; drafting and negotiating like kind exchanges of commercial real property, contracts of sale and closing documentation; and, reviewing title reports, surveys and related searches in connection with the foregoing.