Donna Kirk Seyle

I am an experienced freelance attorney and owner of Freelance Law Firm, a fully-functioning virtual law practice providing legal research and writing services to outsourcing real estate and business lawyers. I am also an avid blogger and social media/networking researcher and advocate.

I’m a Jersey girl, even though I’ve lived half my life in California. I have also lived in my three favorite places — New York City, Los Angeles and Kauai, which makes me different from your average Jersey girl. I now hang my hat in Santa Cruz, CA, a small community of enterprising and creative professionals who enjoy the culture and the beauty of the Central Coast.

Professionally, my 22 years of experience in real estate and business law is a unique blend of traditional firm practice (litigation and transactional), business and real estate entrepreneurship and commercial lease management.  My strength and passion is legal research and drafting, including  pleadings and motions, pre-trial and trial documents, business formation documents, purchase and sale agreements, contracts, real estate agreements, residential and commercial leases, landlord-tenant forms and other related documents.

I am relentless in my research, creative in my thinking, talented in the art of written persuasion and a perfectionist in my composition.  I bring to the practice not just a solid foundation in legal analysis and writing, but also a practical perspective in drafting transactional documents that facilitates ways to get around objections to language and ease of understanding, all leading to positive outcomes.

My favorite things in life are watching my two sons turn into young adults, going to Hawaii and practicing yoga.