Storey Law Group, P.A.

Focus and practice areas

Storey Law Group, P.A. handles three connected bodies of work from its Orlando office: real estate, business and corporate law, and lender representation. The firm has served the Central Florida community since 2013.

The real estate practice covers commercial and residential transactions, closings, and real estate litigation. The firm drafts commercial leases, purchase and sale agreements, and related documents. Landlord and tenant matters are part of the same practice.

On the business side, the firm handles formation, partnership agreements and partnership disputes, business and asset purchases, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial litigation. In my opinion, that pairing is the useful part. A company buying a building and a company buying another company often need the same lawyers in the same month.

Lender work

The firm represents national and regional creditors in foreclosures, bankruptcy creditors rights matters, and evictions. It also handles commercial collections, REO services, and commercial loans.

REO work begins after a foreclosure sale, when a lender takes title to property it never wanted to own. The lawyer's job shifts from enforcing a note to clearing title, resolving occupancy, and getting the asset back to market. That work sits close to the firm's real estate transaction practice, which is a sensible place for it to live.

How the team is built

Five attorneys are named on the firm's site. Edward A. Storey III is the founding partner. Christian Justin Gendreau is the managing attorney, and Jamie L. Storey is a member. Hanah A. Loya and Michael Coyle are associates.

The structure reads as a small partnership with a defined operating role. A managing attorney title usually means one person owns workflow, staffing, and matter assignment day to day. For a firm doing closings and collections at volume alongside litigation, that matters, since those two kinds of work have very different rhythms.

The site does not publish individual attorney biographies, law schools, or admission years. As a reviewer, that is the gap worth naming. Titles tell a reader about hierarchy. They say little about who has tried a commercial case or who has closed a hundred leases.

The clients the firm names

Storey Law Group works with national corporations, mid-market companies, and smaller businesses. It also works with developers, commercial landlords, and business purchasers.

That client list explains the practice mix better than the practice list does. A developer needs entity formation, land acquisition, construction-adjacent contracts, and eventually leasing. A commercial landlord needs leases drafted, then needs someone to enforce them when a tenant stops paying. The firm covers both ends of that arc.

Representing lenders and representing business purchasers in the same building has a practical logic. The lawyer who forecloses on a property understands what a title problem looks like before it appears on a commitment. Buyers benefit from that pattern recognition.

What the geography tells you

The firm's office is on NE Ivanhoe Boulevard in Orlando. Its stated service area covers Winter Park, Maitland, Altamonte Springs, and the surrounding parts of Orange and Seminole County.

That is a tight footprint, and it lines up with the work. Real estate law is county law in practice. Recording requirements, clerk procedures, local counsel expectations, and the judges who hear eviction and foreclosure dockets all vary by circuit. Orange and Seminole counties sit in the Ninth and Eighteenth Judicial Circuits respectively, and a firm working both regularly builds procedural familiarity that a distant firm has to buy at a learning cost.

Central Florida has absorbed heavy population and commercial growth over the period the firm has been open. Real estate and business formation volume tends to track that growth closely.

How this work usually proceeds

Commercial real estate transactions

A commercial purchase generally starts with a letter of intent, then a purchase and sale agreement with a defined due diligence window. During that window a buyer's counsel reviews title commitments, surveys, existing leases, service contracts, and environmental reports. Problems surfaced during diligence become price adjustments, repair obligations, or a decision to walk. Closing follows, with the firm handling document preparation and the mechanics of funding and recording. This is general context on how such matters run.

Partnership disputes

Partnership and shareholder disputes usually turn on documents written years earlier. Operating agreements, buy-sell provisions, and capital account records set the terms of the fight before anyone files anything. Many of these matters resolve through a negotiated buyout of the departing owner, with valuation as the central disagreement. When they do not resolve, they proceed as commercial litigation, and Florida offers a business court division in some circuits.

Evictions and commercial collections

Commercial eviction in Florida moves on statutory timelines that reward precision in the notice stage. A defective notice restarts the clock. Collections work runs on volume and process: demand, suit, judgment, then post-judgment discovery and enforcement. Firms that do this for institutional creditors build systems around it, since the economics depend on speed and consistency.

Reading the listing

The firm publishes its practice areas in specific terms. Rather than a broad label, the site names REO services, bankruptcy creditors rights, business and asset purchases, and commercial loans as distinct offerings. In my opinion, that specificity is the most informative thing on the site, because it tells a prospective client what files already sit on these desks.

What a reader will not find is case history, published results, or attorney credentials. Anyone evaluating the firm for a substantial transaction or a contested matter should ask directly about the assigned attorney's experience with that matter type, Florida Bar admission date, and any board certification. Those are answerable questions in a first conversation.

The firm maintains Facebook and LinkedIn pages. Storey Law Group, P.A. has operated in Orlando since 2013.

Attorney backgrounds beyond the team chart

Edward A. Storey III has a documented mix of transactional and litigation work. His practice centers on real estate matters and general corporate transactions. His commercial dispute work includes contract and leasing cases. The record also identifies construction disputes and broader business litigation. He is a title agent who issues title insurance commitments and policies. That title role gives the listing a more precise account of his work than the firm's general real estate label. It places him directly in the review and issuance work associated with insured closings.

Storey earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Furman University in 1998. He received his J.D. with honors from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2002. Before founding the current firm, he was a partner at Thorne & Storey, P.A. He previously worked at Foley & Lardner, LLP as an associate in its real estate and finance departments. For a reader evaluating transactional counsel, those details identify both his formal training and the practice settings behind his current work.

Additional practice depth within the roster

Jamie L. Storey's individual record adds two subjects that receive little attention elsewhere in the listing. She handles title review, a defined part of real estate work that can reveal ownership defects and recorded claims before a transaction closes. Her practice also includes trademark matters within intellectual property. That work extends the firm's business offering into the protection of company names and other brand assets.

Christian Justin Gendreau has a separate focus on community association law. The supplied practice-area list does not name that field, so his individual profile supplies information that the main firm description misses. It also gives his managing attorney role a substantive legal focus beyond responsibility for office operations.

Taken together, the individual records show more internal differentiation than the short practice list suggests. Storey's title insurance work and Jamie L. Storey's title review provide distinct points of contact with property records and closing documentation. Gendreau's community association practice and Jamie L. Storey's trademark work identify two additional areas that prospective clients would otherwise have difficulty finding in the listing.