Garrett A. Soberalski

Garrett A. Soberalski is a shareholder who focuses his practice on serving clients who require legal assistance with real estate transactions and representation in real-estate litigation. Garrett’s experience with real estate transactional work includes assisting clients with the (i) purchase and sale of commercial real estate; (ii) negotiation and creation of various types of easements; (iii) negotiation and drafting of agreements affecting the joint ownership of property including tenancy-in-common agreements; (iv) negotiation and drafting of commercial leases and subleases; (v) drafting of various documents required for the creation of condominiums; and (vi) drafting of other documents impacting parties’ permissive rights to real property, such as licenses.

Before litigation, Garrett’s practice includes analyzing various real-estate related documents and advising clients of their rights under those documents before disputes arise. For example, Garrett often advises clients on their rights under various condominium documents, easement agreements, and other agreements affecting real property rights to assist clients’ attempts to enforce their real property rights without litigation.

If litigation is necessary , Garrett has extensive experience in all aspects of litigation in both state and federal courts. This experience comes both as a result of his involvement with the litigation of various complex commercial disputes as an attorney with Meissner Tierney for the past seven years and as a result of his service in the chambers of multiple federal judges before joining Meissner Tierney. Specifically, Garrett has experience litigating the following types of real-estate disputes: (i) boundary and encroachment disputes; (ii) disputes concerning easement rights, especially as they relate to access easements; (iii) disputes concerning the enforcement of reversionary interests and warranties of title; (iv) disputes concerning various riparian and water-law related rights; (v) public and private nuisance disputes; (vi) disputes concerning defective legal descriptions in various types of documents; (vii) disputes concerning priority of mortgages and other liens; (viii) disputes arising under leases and subleases; and (ix) disputes concerning parties’ obligations with respect to condemnation actions, relocation expenses, and certain types of federal housing funding.

Before joining Meissner Tierney, Garrett served as a judicial term law clerk for the Honorable G. Michael Halfenger of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

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