Eric N. Appleton

Eric Newell Appleton is a founding partner and member of Appleton Reiss, PLLC. Mr. Appleton has practiced community association and real estate law in Florida, including litigation and transactional matters, since 1999. He has substantial experience representing real estate owners, developers, office parks, commercial associations and residential condominium and homeowners’ associations throughout Florida. Mr. Appleton’s law practice focuses on assisting association officers, directors and community managers with corporate operations, including litigation, arbitration, mediation and transactions. Mr. Appleton has represented real property owners, commercial associations and residential community associations in complex disputes with residents, tenants, lenders, insurance carriers, neighboring property owners, vendors and developers at mediation, arbitration and trial. Mr. Appleton also has considerable experience with condominium terminations, collection and foreclosure litigation, country club and amenity acquisitions and operations, as well as property damage and construction defect claims in Florida. In addition to having significant and well-known experience as a community association attorney in Florida, Mr. Appleton is certified by the Supreme Court of Florida as a Circuit Court and Appellate Court Mediator. Mr. Appleton offers common interest community certification courses to board members and their management teams on a regular basis. Mr. Appleton also has appeared as a lecturer at various events sponsored by The Florida Bar, the Community Associations Institute, the Hillsborough County Bar Association, Lorman Education Services, and The Ralph E. Boyer Institute on Condominium and Cluster Development at the University of Miami Law School.