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The Law Offices of Quinn O'Connell, Jr., PLLC

About Our Company

​We offer high-quality legal services for routine, as well as, highly complex matters while maintaining a direct and personal relationship with each client of our firm.​

What We Offer

​​​We offer more than 130 years of combined experience in structuring domestic and international transactions and mergers and acquisitions, including providing tax analysis for clients in a wide range of industry sectors, and in this context, providing advice to high net worth individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, family offices, corporations, and industrial joint ventures with an emphasis on establishing a matrix of legal support services, both within our firm and through our affiliates, to meet the needs of our entrepreneurial clients, as well as, providing advice on all aspects of civil litigation, banking, real estate acquisitions and sales, estates, estate planning, trusts, and probate for the clients of our firm who are within the Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia areas.​

The Law Offices of Quinn O'Connell, Jr., PLLC

Solutions Overview

Comprehensive Legal Support

Often a client will require more than one area of subject matter expertise to fully address all of the issues presented by a specific case. Our firm will not undertake the representation of a client unless our firm possesses the expertise either through our own attorneys or our affiliates to efficiently and effectively provide the advice required to represent a client. In those cases in which it is necessary to use affiliates, our firm will serve, not only as lead counsel, but as coordinating counsel.

Knowledge of Current Law

Our firm’s attorneys maintain their high level of expertise by closely monitoring ever-changing laws, regulations, and legal trends and effectively applying their collective expertise by working with our clients as a collaborative and mutually supportive team that is fully committed to achieving the goals and objectives of the client in a timely manner.

Advantage of Continuing Client Relationships

Our firm is proud that the vast majority of our clients continue to seek our services with respect to their ongoing need for legal counsel and representation.

Diverse Experience

Our firm serves a wide range of clientele and every client relationship is carefully managed to ensure that the needs of the client are being met. Each engagement for which our firm is retained to provide legal services benefits from the depth and breadth of our expertise.

Team

The Law Offices of Quinn O'Connell, Jr., PLLC

Quinn O’Connell, Jr., Esq.

Member

Born: Washington, D.C.. 1952. Admitted: 1996, District of Columbia Bar: 2000. U.S. District Count for the District of Columbia. Education: Regis College (B.S., 1974): American University (J.D., 1995). Member: Bar Association of the District of Columbia (Member: Estates, Trusts and Probate Law Section; Real Estate, Housing and Land Use Section): American Bar Association (Member: Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section): The Charlotte E. Ray American Inn of Court 1997 – 2002. Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Transactions, Real Estate, Probate, Estate Planning, Banking and Litigation. Mr. O’Connell served as the Law Clerk to the Honorable Judge Wendell P. Gardner, Jr., Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 1995 – 1997. Mr. O’Connell has been involved for more than thirty years as a principal in a wide variety of commercial transactions involving the structuring of mergers and acquisitions, banking, commodities, biotechnology, industrial joint ventures and real estate transactions. In developing his subject matter expertise in these areas of the law, Mr. O’Connell draws on the depth of his business experience and his extensive participation in the negotiation of complex multi-tiered transactions. As an example of his atypical experience, Mr. O’Connell founded and served as General Counsel to a title settlement company which during its existence, effected the settlement of in excess of 1,000 commercial and residential transactions. Mr. O’Connell sold the title company to Brennan Title Company in August 2006. Mr. O’Connell continues to be actively involved in a Real Estate Investment Company which is developing real estate in the Washington D.C. area. Mr. O’Connell is a fourth generation Washingtonian and a former banker with the Riggs National Bank of Washington D.C.

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Supporting Team Members

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Susan T. Chartier, Esq.

Member

Born: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1963. Admitted: 1988, Rhode Island Bar; 1989, District of Columbia Bar; 1989, Maryland State Bar. Education: Providence College (B.A., 1985); The Catholic University of America, Columbus Law School (J.D. 1988). Member: Maryland State Bar Association (Member: Real Property); Bar Association of the District of Columbia (Member: Real Estate, Housing and Land Use Section); Rhode Island Bar Association. Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate, Residential Real Estate, and Tax Deferred Exchanges. Licensed Title Insurance Agent: 1996, Maryland.

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Of Counsel

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William B. O’Connell, Jr., Esq.

Of Counsel

Born: Washington D.C., 1932. Admitted: 1966, Virginia State Bar; 1966. Supreme Court of Virginia; 1967, District of Columbia Bar; U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; U.S Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Education: Maryland University (B.S., 1963); Georgetown University (LLB, 1996). Practice Areas: Probate: Estate Planning, Civil Litigation and Criminal Law.

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Anita Isicson, Esq.

Of Counsel

Born: Arlington, Virginia, 1949. Admitted: 1976, District of Columbia Bar; 1976 Virginia State Bar: 2000, Maryland State Bar, 1980, U.S. Tax Court; 1980, U.S District Court for the District of Columbia. Education: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance and Commence (B.S. Economics cum laude 1971); Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1975). Member: Bar Association of the District of Columbia 1976 – 1999; Virginia Bar Association; Maryland State Bar Association; Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia, 1994 – 2008; Virginia Women Attorneys Association, 1983 – 2004, Director and Membership Chair, 1984 – 1987, Advisory Committee on Superior Court Rules of Probate and Fiduciary Procedure 1989 – 1999; National Association of Women Judges 1989 – 1999. Ms. Isicson presided as Auditor-Master, a quasi-judicial Court officer for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 1989 – 1999, during which period of time she presided over more than 1600 cases.

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