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Anna Stearns

Anna Stearns

Distinguished Lawyer

Real Estate Law

109 Church St, Black Mountain, NC 28711, USA

Anna spent 15 years working as Ron’s paralegal before leaving to attend Campbell University School of Law, where she graduated with honors in 2018. While in Raleigh, Anna served as Legislative Assistant for Representative Brian Turner in the General Assembly and as General Counsel and Chief of Staff to Chief Justice Cheri Beasley of the North Carolina Supreme Court. In 2021, she returned home to the mountains to practice in the firm where her legal career began more than twenty years ago. Anna serves on the North Carolina Bar Association’s Pro-Bono Committee and is a member of the N.C. Bar Association, N.C. Advocates for Justice, N.C. Association of Women Attorneys, and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Swannanoa Valley.

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Anthony Armando Nozzolillo

Anthony Armando Nozzolillo

Distinguished Lawyer

Real Estate Law

2163 Merrick Ave, Merrick, NY 11566, USA

Anthony A. Nozzolillo, Esq. is a seasoned attorney representing individual and corporate buyers, sellers, and lenders in both routine and complex residential and commercial real estate transactions. His practice includes residential and commercial real estate closings, commercial and residential leasing for both lessors and lessees, and mortgage refinancing. He represents national and local lenders in closings involving both first and second residential and commercial loans. Mr. Nozzolillo serves as Chief Legal Counsel to On Point Land Services Corporation, a real estate title insurance company, and as General Counsel to Keen Settlement Services, Inc., a loan settlement company. Both companies are located in Merrick, Long Island, New York, where he acts as a trusted legal advisor and representative to ownership and management teams. He also serves as Of Counsel to the Litigation and Real Estate Departments of Turturro Law, P.C., a full-service law firm located in Staten Island, New York. He is well versed in all aspects of landlord and tenant matters, as well as title and title insurance, and possesses extensive knowledge of real estate litigation and dispute resolution. His experience includes evictions, foreclosures, breach of contract disputes, escrow deposit disputes, title disputes including quiet title actions and notices of pendency, boundary line disputes, adverse possession claims, and breach of warranty of habitability matters. Mr. Nozzolillo is a frequent guest speaker and instructor at realtor, mortgage broker, and real estate professional conventions. His speaking engagements focus on first-time homebuyers, leasing, landlord-tenant matters, and all facets of title insurance. Although the primary focus of his practice is real estate law, and after operating his own private law practice for nearly a decade, Mr. Nozzolillo also provides additional legal services. These services include drafting wills and trusts for estate planning purposes, business law matters such as corporate entity formation, contract drafting, and asset purchases, civil litigation representation involving personal injury, slip and fall cases, torts, arbitration, and mediation, as well as small claims court matters and contract law involving partnership agreements, independent contractor agreements, and prenuptial agreements. Mr. Nozzolillo is the recipient of awards and recognitions from The Herald Newspaper, Long Island Business News, the Long Island People’s Choice Awards, the New York Association of Mortgage Brokers, Martindale-Hubbell, and The American Registry. His legal articles have been published in newspapers, magazines, and online forums. His clientele includes celebrity clients, business owners, and high-net-worth investors. He also serves as counsel to multiple condominium and cooperative buildings, as well as property management companies located throughout Nassau County, New York. Mr. Nozzolillo earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the State University of New York at Albany, School of Business, and received his Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law. He is an active member of the New York State Bar Association as a sustaining member, the Nassau County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the American Association of Notaries, and is an affiliate member of the Long Island Board of Realtors and the New York Association of Mortgage Brokers. In addition, he is a licensed New York State Real Estate Broker. Mr. Nozzolillo is admitted to practice law in New York State in the Second Judicial Department, as well as in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Ashley Baron

Distinguished Lawyer

Real Estate Law

751 S Weir Canyon Rd 7 suite 450, Anaheim, CA 92808, USA

Area of Practice: Construction Law

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