Full Compensation When the Government Takes
The government arrives with its own appraisers and lawyers; you should have yours. Suder has represented more than 100 property owners in eminent domain and takings matters, and we know how to challenge a taking, contest a low appraisal, and recover what your property is actually worth.
Eminent Domain & Takings
Teresa Bamberger has represented more than 100 clients in eminent domain and takings matters since 2011, and her earlier career as a certified planner and civil engineering project manager means she can read the plans, understand the damage to what is left of your property, and prove its real value. Our founder spent nearly four years as the City of Cincinnati's chief land use lawyer, so we also know how the condemning authority thinks. We handle both physical takings (appropriation and inverse condemnation) and regulatory takings, where a zoning or permitting decision goes so far that it takes your property without a formal appropriation.
How we help
- Appropriation (condemnation) defense and just compensation
- Challenges to necessity and public use
- Damages to the residue and partial takings
- Inverse condemnation
- Regulatory takings and related civil rights claims
- Highway, utility, pipeline, and redevelopment takings
Representative matters.
Everything real property.
Land Use & Zoning
Rezonings, variances, PUDs, appeals, and zoning opinions. At Suder, zoning is not another practice area; it is the practice area.
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Trial and appellate counsel in real property disputes, with published decisions in Ohio's courts of appeals.
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Acquisitions, leasing, joint ventures, financings, and condominium structures, handled by former big-firm lawyers.
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Certificates of appropriateness, landmark designations, and the fight to keep the buildings worth keeping.
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Valuation challenges before boards of revision and the Board of Tax Appeals, and abatements that make projects pencil.
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Ohio and Northern Kentucky local counsel for national firms, plus Texas and New York transactional counsel.
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Tell us what you are trying to build, buy, keep, or defend. We will tell you plainly how we can help.