What's it like to work with F3?
Trust F3 to guide you through even the most complex transactions, smoothing the way with our extensive experience combined with a thorough, calm, and thoughtful approach focused on helping you see past the challenges to the end result. Every transaction has both a legal side (what you can and/or must do) and a strategic side (what you probably should do); we’ll give you our best advice on both.
What can F3 solve for you?
Navigating the complex processes required for buying, selling, and using school properties means managing intricate transactions, complex legal requirements, many relationships, and resolving disputes when they can’t be avoided. Because F3 is about education top to bottom, school real estate is a critical part of the picture. We’re here to help you manage everything related to the ground schools stand on.
“Public school districts own an incredibly large portion of land within the state of California. F3 attorneys know how valuable these properties are as the environments that facilitate student learning, and we are attuned to how the unique duty of public schools impacts the operation and management of these sites. We simplify the legal process and structure transactions to maximize a district’s goals and values.”
Sarah D. Polito, Partner
F3 attorneys understand that while always advocating for the district, most real property transactions are cooperative efforts where both patience and creativity may be needed to achieve both parties’ goal of closing the deal. No two real estate transactions in which school districts, community colleges, and other higher education institutions engage are alike. There are various levels of decision-making that may include superintendents or assistant superintendents, presidents, chancellors, chief business officers, administrative services directors, in-house counsel, and board members. Real estate transactions have funding requirements, require detailed title review, compliance with statutory obligations, zoning and environmental considerations, negotiations, consideration of community impacts, and so much more. As one of the premier education-focused law firms in California and nationally, we know what it takes to give education a place to happen – with all of the complexities, processes, conflicts (sometimes), and variations that entails.
