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Harvard Law School
One Logan Square
18th & Cherry Streets, 27th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-6933
Fax: 215.568.0300
Biography
Stuart Ebby received an AB, with honors, from Harvard College in 1958 and an LLB from Harvard Law School in 1961. He has practiced real estate law for more than 40 years and has participated in more than 1,000 real estate transactions. Stuart has experience in all phases of the practice, including mortgage financing; sales and purchases; development and construction; leasing; condominiums; brokerage and management; loan restructuring, workouts and foreclosures; zoning and subdivision; title insurance claims; and capital markets financing. He has also appeared as counsel in state and federal court cases involving real estate law issues.
Stuart has represented a broad spectrum of clients, from individual entrepreneurs to some of the largest institutional investors in the United States and Canada. He has also written and lectured extensively, and has served as an expert witness in numerous lawsuits involving questions of real estate law and practice.
Stuart is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and he is one of a small number of lawyers who have been listed in Best Lawyers in America since the publication's inception, in 1983. In a 1999 survey conducted by Philadelphia magazine, he was named as one of Philadelphia's best real estate lawyers. He was named as a Leader in Real Estate in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business from 2004 to 2011. Pennsylvania Super Lawyers listed him as one of the top 100 lawyers in the state from 2004 to 2008 and again in 2010.
Education
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, LLB, 1961
Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, AB, cum laude, 1958
Honors and Awards
- Best Lawyers in America, 1983 – Present
- American College of Real Estate Lawyers, 1986 – Present
- Named in Real Estate by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, (2004 – Present)
- Named by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine as one of Pennsylvania's top 100 attorneys (2004 – 2008, 2010) and as a top Pennsylvania Real Estate attorney (2011) as the result of a statewide survey of lawyers
- Named a Best Lawyer in Philadelphia by Philadelphia magazine, March 1999
Publications
- Numerous continuing legal education articles on real estate law
- Co-author, Pennsylvania Real Estate Closing Opinion Handbook (PBI press, 2008)
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Philadelphia Bar Association
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
Teaching / Lecturing
- "Real Estate Transactions," University of Pennsylvania Law School, Lecturer-in-Law
- "Real Estate Transactions," Temple University, Adjunct Professor of Law
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania