Overview
Faculty
Sharon Menchyk Esq.
Ms. Menchyk is an attorney with Tucker Arensberg PC. Ms. Menchyk’s practice focuses primarily on commercial and real estate matters. She is a member of the Bar of Pennsylvania and is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Ms. Menchyk graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2000.
Frank Kosir, Jr., Esq.
Frank Kosir, Jr., is a partner with Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is a member of the firm’s Real Estate and Lending, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Construction Law, and Energy and Mineral Rights Groups. He has significant civil litigation and general practice experience in all areas of real property law, and acquired extensive experience in all facets of real estate development, sales, construction, and leasing prior to entering the practice of law. Mr. Kosir represents clients in a wide range of matters including commercial and residential real estate tax assessment appeals, commercial and residential sales and leasing, oil and gas lease negotiations, title defense, commercial and residential landlord-tenant proceedings, and zoning and land use issues. He is a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education programs. Mr. Kosir was recognized five times as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® Rising Star® in real property law, and has been recognized five times as Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® Super Lawyer. Mr. Kosir has also twice been recognized in Best Lawyers in America. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Allegheny County Bar Association, and the Washington County Bar Association. Mr. Kosir received his B.A. from Washington & Jefferson College in 1998, and his J.D. from the Duquesne University School of Law in 2001. He resides in Peters Township, Pennsylvania, where he formerly served as a member of the Township Planning Commission and is now in his ninth year as an elected Township Councilman.
Krista M. Kochosky, Esq.
Ms. Kochosky is chair of the Real Estate Practice at The Lynch Law Group. She has over 25 years of experience counseling clients in a variety of real estate matters. Ms. Kochosky assists real estate investors with business formation as well as acquisition and sale/leasing of residential and commercial property. She represents developers/builders and individual property owners with zoning and land use matters before municipal boards and in civil court inclusive of boundary disputes and quiet title actions. She represents commercial landlords with leasing and property management of retail space as well as residential lessors of long and short term rental properties. In addition to her assistance with transactions, she has extensive litigation experience representing clients in civil suits in state and federal courts in actions for breach of sales and construction contracts, quiet title/specific performance, and violation of consumer protection laws. She lectures frequently for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and national programs. Her most recent presentations include “Quiet Title Actions: Primer in PA,” “Drafting and Modifying Agreements of Sale,” “The Role of Insurance and Indemnity in Business Litigation” and “Drafting & Modifying Residential Agreements of Sale” sand “Airbnb, VRBO and Short-Term Rental Leases.” Ms. Kochosky is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, United States District Court for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania, as well as the Supreme Court of West Virginia. She graduated magna cum laude from Kent State University in 1993 with a B.A. in English. Ms. Kochosky received her J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law in 1997, where she represented Duquesne in Trial Advocacy.
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