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Lesli S. Bolner

Lesli Bolner enters her second decade of practice having counseled her clients’ real estate concerns during the ever evolving financial cycle – from the prosperous times of land development, financing expansion and construction boom, through economic malaise, then trailing through contractions replete with loan workouts and bankruptcy challenges.

Her work in the law of real estate transactions and litigation touches on many aspects of her clients’ business and personal lives, ranging from sales and leases, to title curative work, to subdivision development and zoning, to resolution of boundary disputes, as well as condominium formation and conversion. This work often requires the formation of business entities such as corporations and limited liability companies appropriate to real estate entities. Not infrequently such real estate matters overlap other areas of the law such as successions and donations.

Her pragmatic approach to identifying and resolving real estate-related problems has also led to her retention by banks and other creditors seeking to resolve potential problems, whether related to title issues or to traditional debtor defaults, such as bankruptcy. Where litigation is required to enforce creditor rights, her experience in representing such clients in trial and appellate courts and U. S. Bankruptcy Courts permits her to use such tools when necessary.

When she finds questionable title issues in title examinations or lender loan collateral reviews which require curative work, she draws upon the support of two the nation’s most secure title insurance companies—First American Title Insurance Company and Fidelity National Title Insurance Company--to underwrite problematic titles, thus enabling transactions to close quickly and often without protracted curative work or title litigation.

Baton Rouge was her childhood home, and after graduating from Louisiana State University, she attended Loyola Law School in New Orleans and earned her Juris Doctor 1992. Roughly the first half of her career was spent practicing in the New Orleans metropolitan area, serving lenders, professionals, and small business owners. Since joining Seale & Ross eight years ago, she has brought her pragmatic approach to transactional matters to the firm’s North Shore clients.

For several years she has served on the Tangipahoa Land Use Planning Committee, responsible for critiquing the development of a land use code for currently unregulated areas of Tangipahoa Parish and redevelopment of subdivision regulations. This work has placed her at the fulcrum of the discussion between proponents of planning for smart growth and advocates of less regulated land use and development policies. She has been active professionally with the Legislative Committee of the Louisiana Land Title Association, where she has participated in drafting legislation intended to protect landowner’s rights and titles.

Ms. Bolner lives in Hammond with her husband and two children. She is active as a mother of two pre-teens. She currently serves as Chair of the Finance Council of Holy Ghost Catholic Church and School. She prefers to spend her spare time gardening, identifying and planting trees, and boating.

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