Hallie Roorda is an experienced transactional commercial real estate attorney, with both law firm and in-house experience. Hallie has extensive experience in commercial leasing, as well as handling all aspects of a commercial real estate transaction, including acquisition, disposition, financing, and management of various commercial property types. Hallie also has substantial experience in counseling clients about real property due diligence.
Prior to joining the firm, Hallie worked in private practice for a number of years, where her practice focused on commercial real estate transactions and commercial leasing. She served as lead counsel on a variety of real estate transactions, including large restaurant portfolio sale-leaseback transactions, complex senior living facility and shopping center transactions, and residential and commercial development projects. Hallie also assisted her clients with various aspects of property management, including reviewing and drafting easements and declarations of covenants and restrictions, and with all aspects of leasing management.
Hallie also spent a number of years as in-house counsel for a regional restaurant chain with locations throughout the southeastern United States. In this role, Hallie served as Associate General Counsel and led the legal department’s real estate efforts. While Hallie’s main focus was real estate, particularly development and leasing, she also advised the company in other matters, such as gaming and contests, information technology, employment, and general corporate compliance.
Hallie is a native Floridian, and has resided in Orlando, Florida since 2014. In additional to her legal career, Hallie serves on the Executive Committee for Seniors First, Inc., the organization in Central Florida responsible for providing meals-on-wheels to senior citizens in need, and is the Chair of the Duke University Alumni Admissions Advisory Committee in Central Florida.
Hallie graduated magna cum laude from Duke University in 2011, with a degree in Psychology and minors in English and History. Hallie went on to receive both a Master’s Degree in Psychology and her law degree from Duke University in 2014, where she graduated cum laude.
Hallie is admitted to practice law in Florida and Wisconsin.