Madolyn Orr
Senior Counsel
Services & Specializations
- Real Estate
- Land Use
- Business Transactions
Admissions
California;
USDC, Northern District of California
Address
3000 El Camino Real | 5 Palo Alto Square Suite 400, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Office Tel.
650.645.9033
Overview
Madolyn represents clients in a wide range of commercial real estate transactions and related business and corporate matters. She negotiates, drafts, interprets, and enforces contracts and other transactional documents connected with commercial leasing, property management, and landlord-tenant relations (leases, subleases, amendments, estoppels, assignments and consents, rent and CAM reconciliations, etc.); acquisition and disposition of real properties (broker listing agreements, letters of intent, purchase and sale agreements, options, escrow instructions, etc.); joint property ownership (tenants in common agreements, etc.); and the creation, modification, and termination of easements and other agreements for shared use of real property. Madolyn has a special interest in title issues, and title insurance. She helps owners, buyers, and lenders coordinate title insurance coverages; lien priority and subordination; surveys, environmental clearance, and other due diligence matters; lot line adjustments; and zoning variances and other aspects of the entitlements process, including educating and negotiating with city attorneys.
- Super Lawyers® Rising Stars, Real Estate, 2021
- JD, Santa Clara University School of Law, 2011
- MA (Developmental Studies-International Political Economy, with Distinction), University of Leeds, England, 2002
- BA (History), University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 2001
- Co-author. “Scammers are Seeking to Steal Your Property Using Wild Deeds: What One Municipality is Doing About It,” April 30, 2024.
- ICSC, member, 2022 – present
- CREW Silicon Valley, member, 2020 – present