Jennifer Devine | carlsonblack.com

Jennifer M. Devine| Senior Paralegal

Tel: 608.888.1681

Jennifer has over 20 years’ real estate experience spanning all aspects of project development, including detailed property research; title and survey review, risk analysis, and solutions; due diligence production and review; and drafting transactional documents. She has experience at the local, regional and national levels with hotels, waterparks, apartments, condominiums, retail, mixed-use developments, big-box stores, leasing, telecommunications and financing. Jennifer’s contributions and expertise are integral to the firm’s delivery of exceptional, timely, and cost-effective legal services. Jennifer’s experience encompasses all phases of complex development matters.

Representative Accomplishments

Municipal approvals for a major mixed-use, luxury redevelopment along an historic river way, formerly a lumber yard.
Approvals, acquisition, condominium creation, financing, construction, and leasing for a complex of properties worth over $50 million, developed in phases on formerly blighted land.
Clearing title and survey issues for a former shopping center property to allow a condominium development as an apartment building, with an optional office building expansion, and shared underground parking facility.
Title and survey analysis and curative measures for a 12-state, $630 million commercial property portfolio acquisition.
Acquisition of more than $300 million of agricultural land in nine states.
Vetting and papering over 500 telecom siting transactions.

Professional Associations, Memberships, Publications

NALA – The Paralegal Association
NALA Certifying Board Member
American Bar Association Site Team – Approval of Paralegal Education Programs
Madison Area Paralegal Association
Facts & Findings, January/February 2017: Put Me In, Coach! - Smart Ideas for Getting in the Game.

Education

Advanced Certified Paralegal – Real Estate Principles; NALA The Paralegal Association
State Bar of Wisconsin Certified Paralegal
Certified Paralegal; NALA The Paralegal Association
Paralegal Certificate, with honors; Institute for Paralegal Studies
B.S., Wildlife Ecology; University of Wisconsin-Madison