Adele I Stone

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The Real Estate professionals at Atkinson, Diner, Stone, Mankuta & Ploucha, P.A. offer innovative counseling, expert service and practical advice for all sectors of the real estate industry. Our diverse client base includes developers, investors, institutional lenders, borrowers, landlords, tenants, retailers, property managers, and property associations. Our team of accomplished attorneys delivers quality professional legal services for a wide variety of legal needs covering both commercial and residential properties. Practice areas of the Department include:
* Acquisition and Sale transactions for both commercial and residential properties;
* Lender and borrower representation for all levels of commercial loan transactions including complex commercial real estate loans and SBA financing;
* Developer representation for residential and commercial projects through each stage of development from acquisition through leasing or sales;
* Commercial, office and industrial lease preparation and negotiation;
* Preparation of community association documents for condominiums, residential subdivisions and medical, office and industrial parks;
* Title examination and issuance of title insurance including services to resolve title defects;
* Negotiation and litigation of title insurance claims.

The Firm’s real estate attorneys serve as authorized agents for Chicago Title Insurance Company, First American Title Insurance Company and Attorney’s Title Insurance Fund. These attorneys are actively engaged in shaping the future of the real estate practice through their participation in numerous committees of the Florida Bar and local, state and national real estate associations. The attorneys in the Department include Board Certified real estate practitioners who are supported by experienced paraprofessional staff. To meet the rapid pace of today's transactions, the Department utilizes in-house advanced technology and specialized software produced exclusively for the real estate practice. Our attorneys and professional paralegals have the expertise and technical skills to enable the Department to respond efficiently to the needs of its clients.

Real Estate Certified Attorney - Florida Bar

Adele I Stone
Atkinson, Diner, Stone, Mankuta & Ploucha PA
1 Financial Plaza #1400
Fort Lauderdale FL 33394-0043
Tel: 954 925-5501
Fax: 954 920-2711
E-mail: astone@atkinson-diner.com

After graduating with high honors from the University of Florida in 1975, Adele earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami, School of Law in 1978. Board Certified by the Florida Bar in Real Estate Law, Adele concentrates her practice in the areas of commercial real estate and general business law, including commercial purchase/sale transactions, loan transactions, leasing, corporate and business transactions, joint ventures and title insurance issuance, claims and negotiations. Adele is also a commercial arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association.

Adele is an authorized agent for Attorneys Title Insurance Fund, Inc., Chicago Title Insurance Company and First American Title Insurance Company. She not only is recognized as an expert in her field but is often called upon by her peers for her knowledge of the ethical practice of law and is the author of the Nova Law Journal “Ethics: 1993 Leading Cases and Significant Developments in Florida Law.” She has been a lecturer on the topic of ethics at seminars sponsored by the Florida Bar Professional Ethics Committee, First American Title Insurance Corporation, Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation, the South Florida Chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association and the Broward County Bar Association. She has been honored to have been selected as a Leading Florida Attorney in the field of commercial real estate law and has been named as one of Florida Trend's Legal Elite and Florida "Super Lawyers". Adele has been selected for inclusion in "The Best Lawyers In America" for Real Estate Law.

Adele's service to the Bar is extensive. The Florida Supreme Court appointed her to a seat on the Board of Directors of the Florida Bar Foundation and she now serves as its President through June 30, 2010. She is a past Chairman of Legal Aid Services of Broward County, Inc. and the founder of the Broward County Legal Aid Advisory Board. She is a former Chairman of the Florida Bar Grievance Committee, District 17D (1988), and was a long standing member and former Chairman of the Florida Bar Professional Ethics Committee. Adele has been appointed to chair several State Bar Committees by the Florida Bar Presidents, including Ethics 2000 Review Committee (which concluded in 2005 when Adele argued the extensive revisions to the Rules of Professional Conduct before the Supreme Court of Florida); Unbundled Legal Services Special Committee II, the 2005-06 Annual Convention Committee and the Attorney-Client Privilege Task Force Committee, in which she served as Vice Chairperson. Adele also sits as a member of the Executive Council of the Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar and serves as Co-Chair of the Pro Bono Committee of that Section. Adele is a member and former President of the Attorney’s Real Estate Council of Broward County, Inc.

Adele's recent efforts to support the Bar's interest in providing access to the legal system have focused on involvement with Legal Aid of Broward County, including chairing the local Board of Directors and founding and chairing the Legal Aid Service of Broward County Executive Council which seeks to broaden Legal Aid's message to the business community. Adele also chairs the steering committee of the Florida Attorneys Saving Homes (“FASH”) program of the Florida Bar, a statewide effort to assist homeowners who are in default of their home mortgage loans.

Adele has had a long term commitment to community service. She was Vice Chairman of the City of Hollywood Community Redevelopment Agency and a former Director of the City of Hollywood Chamber of Commerce where she graduated from its Leadership Hollywood class of 1987. Adele is a former member of the Executive Advisory Council of Barry University’s Andreas School of Business where she was an adjunct professor at that university. She is a former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Children’s Home Society of Florida/Intercoastal Division and served on the State Board of Directors and the Foundation of the Society.

Adele currently serves as the Vice President of Public Affairs for NAIOP of South Florida, a Chapter of NAIOP, a national commercial real estate association and serves on the NAIOP State Board of Directors and its PAC. As a member of the Chapter Board and State Board, Adele participates in advocacy on behalf of the organization with respect to the critical issues facing the real estate industry. As part of the Chapter’s education program, Adele has been called upon to lecture on commercial leasing.

In 1992 Adele was the recipient of the “Up and Comers” award for her accomplishments within the field of law. Adele received recognition by the City of Hollywood Chamber of Commerce in 1994 when she was awarded with its annual Athena Award. In 1995, Adele was honored when selected as an American Cancer Society’s Woman of the Year and in 2009 was recognized as one of South Florida Business Journal’s Influential Businesswomen.