Lars E. Schuller - Knoxville, TN

Overview

Lars E. Schuller joined the firm as special counsel in 2006 as the manager of the firm's Sevierville office. He now practices in the firm's Knoxville office, principally in the areas of real estate litigation, real estate title law, real estate transactions, and related matters. He has successfully defended sellers, title agencies, title insurance companies, and flood data providers in real estate misrepresentation actions and has successfully prosecuted actions to remedy title defects on behalf of owners and lenders. His litigation experience includes matters involving issues of contract, tort, professional liability, construction law, products liability, premises liability, fraud, insurance coverage, governmental liability, employment law, real estate title and boundary disputes, rights of landlord and tenant, eminent domain, inverse condemnation, and real estate agents.

Mr. Schuller's transactional real estate law practice includes title examinations of industrial, commercial, and residential properties; producing title opinions and title insurance; all aspects of real estate closings, including drafting deeds and other instruments; settlement; and representation of buyers, sellers, banks, credit unions and other lenders. He is a licensed title insurance producer and writes title insurance for First American Title Insurance Company. Further, he represents secured creditors in foreclosure and bankruptcy proceedings.

Mr. Schuller majored in history at Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee, earning a B.A. degree in 1981. At the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business Administration, his studies (M.B.A. 1983) included a concentration in Computer Information Systems, and he was a professor's assistant in the Fisher School of Accounting. While studying law at the University of Tennessee (J.D. 1990), Mr. Schuller served on the board of the Tennessee Law Review as Executive/Research Editor.

Prior to attending law school, Mr. Schuller was a programmer/analyst at Investment Support Systems, Inc., Bloomfield, NJ (later acquired by Triple Point Technology) where he developed computer software for the currency and commodities trading industry using the IBM PC as an alternative to mainframe computer information management systems.

Mr. Schuller has served as faculty for Sterling Education Services, National Business Institute, HalfMoon; authoring written materials for and/or lecturing at continuing education seminars for attorneys and other licensed professionals.