Attorneys serving Palm Harbor and Pinellas County.

Our connection to Palm Harbor

Palm Harbor sits on the north end of Pinellas County, which makes it one of the closer Pinellas geographies to our Lutz office. The drive is about 35 minutes up US-19 and across SR-54. Palm Harbor clients share the Pinellas County court system with the rest of the county, which means their civil and family matters are heard in Clearwater where we already appear. Real estate, estate planning, and mediation are the matters Palm Harbor residents most often retain us for. These are matters where board certification and long practice history carry weight.

The Palm Harbor practice

Real estate is the leading practice area for our Palm Harbor clients. Palm Harbor’s mix of waterfront properties, established neighborhoods like Crystal Beach and Ozona, and planned communities around Innisbrook produces a steady flow of purchase and sale issues, title defects, and foreclosure defense matters. David Walkowiak holds Florida Bar board certification in real estate law, and that specialization shows up most in deals where closing risk is real: short timelines, disputed title, seller financing, or complex entity ownership.

Estate planning is the second pillar of our Palm Harbor practice. Palm Harbor’s demographics skew toward established professionals, retirees, and multi generational homesteads. That is exactly the estate planning work Gwen Walkowiak focuses on: wills, revocable living trusts, durable powers of attorney, healthcare surrogacy, and Florida homestead planning. We build these estate plans as living documents, updatable as families change.

Civil mediation rounds out the Palm Harbor work. David is Florida Supreme Court certified as a civil mediator, and Palm Harbor matters that benefit from mediation, such as commercial disputes, contested estate matters, and family law, are often referred to us by other attorneys who know our work.

Why a Pasco firm for a Palm Harbor matter

The Palm Harbor to Lutz drive is short. Overhead in Pasco is lower than in Pinellas, and the practice in Lutz is run by two partners who have been in the same office for twenty years. Palm Harbor clients comparing us to Pinellas side firms with three attorney conference rooms and four layer intake usually choose us for the ownership of the matter. The attorney who answers the intake call is the attorney who handles the closing, the trust signing, or the mediation.