Donna Seyle

Actually, I'm a Jersey girl, even though I've lived half my life in California. I have also lived in my three favorite places -- New York City, Los Angeles and Kauai, which makes me different from your average Jersey girl. I now hang my hat in Santa Cruz, CA, a small community of enterprising and creative professionals who enjoy the culture and the beauty of the Central Coast.

Professionally, my 22 years of experience in real estate and business law is a unique blend of traditional firm practice (litigation and transactional), business and real estate entrepreneurship and commercial lease management.  My strength and passion is legal research and drafting, including  pleadings and motions, pre-trial and trial documents, business formation documents, purchase and sale agreements, contracts, real estate agreements, residential and commercial leases, landlord-tenant forms and other related documents.

I am relentless in my research, creative in my thinking, talented in the art of written persuasion and a perfectionist in my composition.  I bring to the practice not just a solid foundation in legal analysis and writing, but also a practical perspective in drafting transactional documents that facilitates ways to get around objections to language and ease of understanding, all leading to positive outcomes.
 

Freelance Law Firm was founded to serve as an experienced and reliable resource for lawyers and law firms who find themselves without the resources to take on  new business or respond to matters needing immediate attention, and to in-house counsel faced with a temporary overload of projects.

The firm's mission is to provide real estate and business firms or practitioners and in-house counsel with cost-effective, time-saving, high quality legal services so they can increase their billings without increasing their overhead.

Freelance Law Firm is a fully functioning law office

Freelance Law Firm is a fully functioning law firm incorporating all the resources necessary to serve you and your clients as your choice for outsourcing your work. These resources include comprehensive online  research through Lexis/Nexis, including primary and secondary authorities, treatises, pleadings, transactional documents and other forms, as well as malpractice insurance. These costs are not passed on to you, but are included in hourly fees.

Freelance Law Firm is a Virtual Law Office offering a unique benefit

What differentiates Freelance Law Firm is how it works. It is a Virtual Law Office that functions via a highly secure online platform. The technology that links to our server houses all communications, documents preparation, document review by both attorney and client, scheduling, invoicing and all transactions in a secure digital environment. The system is easy to use and requires no training.

The extraordinary benefit of this system is that you can easily access online all of the matter-related materials at any time by logging into our secure server.  It's the same as reviewing a paper file in a brick and mortar office, except that it is available to you and your client for review any time of day, any day of the week.  You have instant access to the exact status of your matter anytime.  This makes handling projects that you have outsourced to us extremely cost-effective and efficient.

Freelance Law Firm is at the forefront of a new way of practicing real estate and business law. Contact us to learn more about how we can help you save time and money, and increase your billings and client base.