Klosinski Overstreet, LLP

Focus and practice areas

Klosinski Overstreet, LLP works out of two offices in the Augusta area of Georgia, one in Augusta itself and one in Evans. The firm was formed in 1999 by Scott Klosinski and Jim Overstreet. It describes itself as a small firm, and the attorney roster bears that out: seven lawyers in total.

Real estate sits at the centre of what the firm does. That covers buying, selling and renting homes, along with property transactions for businesses. The firm is licensed to practise throughout Georgia and South Carolina, and Scott Klosinski's membership of the South Carolina Bar lets the firm handle real estate transactions across the state line.

The full list of practice areas on the site runs to nine: real estate, automotive retail, bankruptcy, business and corporate law, family law, wills and probate, trademarks, personal injury, and heir property. Bankruptcy work goes both ways, for creditors and for debtors. Automotive retail is the narrower entry here, and the firm applies it to dealers buying and selling vehicles.

Heir property and why it shows up

Heir property is a specific problem in parts of Georgia and the Carolinas. Land passes down through a family without a will, and after two or three generations the title is held in common by a large group of relatives, many of whom have never met. Any one of them can force a sale. Clearing the title generally means tracing the heirs, valuing the shares and getting a court to sort out the ownership. That is general context on how such matters proceed rather than a description of any particular case at this firm.

How the team is built

The seven attorneys break down into two partners, one senior associate and four associates. Both partners are the founders. Scott Klosinski's page states over 25 years of experience, and he works as a closing attorney on residential and commercial property transactions for buyers, sellers, builders and business owners.

James Overstreet's page states over 20 years in law. His work covers real estate, bankruptcy, and corporate and individual financial transactions of the more complicated kind. The two of them formed the firm together in 1999.

Courtney Patrick is the senior associate. She handles residential and commercial closings, with first-time home buyers and investors both named on her page. She also works on trademarks and copyrights, which explains how a firm this size carries intellectual property alongside property law.

The associate bench

Katie Williams takes family law, wills and probate, and civil litigation. Bowen Klosinski works on real estate transactions and real estate litigation, plus creditor rights and bankruptcy. He also acts as corporate counsel to several businesses, advising on collections, corporate structuring, mergers and acquisitions, employment questions and the drafting of governing documents.

Matthew Padgett covers corporate matters for clients and their own firms, from business formation through to business litigation. Harrison Harper is an associate in the Augusta office; his legal training came from Charleston School of Law.

In my opinion the useful thing about this roster is how much of it overlaps with real estate. Four of the seven attorneys have property work described on their pages in some form. For a client with a closing to get through, that redundancy matters more than a long list of unrelated specialisms.

Geography and who the firm reaches

The firm names Augusta and the counties around it: Richmond, Columbia, McDuffie and Burke. Augusta sits on the Savannah River, and the state border runs down the middle of it. A property market that straddles two states creates a practical problem for buyers, because a closing in North Augusta follows South Carolina law while one three miles away follows Georgia law.

The dual licensing answers that directly. It is one of the more concrete facts on the site, and as a reviewer I'd rate it above most of what firms usually put on an about page.

Website content is available in English and Spanish.That is a small detail with real consequences in a residential closing, where the documents are dense and the client is often signing a contract of major financial significance in their life.

What the record shows

Twenty-seven years is a long run for a two-partner firm that stayed small. Both founders are still listed as active partners, which says something about continuity that no marketing line can.

The site does not list case results, and it does not publish settlement figures or rankings. What it publishes instead is the roster: names, titles, and a paragraph each on what those attorneys actually work on. For a directory built on evidence, that is a more checkable form of disclosure than a results page.

The information gaps are ordinary ones. Law schools appear for one attorney out of seven. Bar admission years are absent across the board. Neither omission is unusual for a firm of this size, and neither affects what a prospective client can verify through the Georgia bar's own records.

Reading the practice mix

A firm that does closings, bankruptcy, wills, trademarks and family law is covering the legal needs of a middle-market community: people buying houses, people running small businesses, people sorting out an estate. The corporate work Bowen Klosinski describes, mergers, acquisitions and governing documents, points to the same clientele at a slightly larger scale.

Personal injury and family law sit somewhat apart from the transactional core. Katie Williams carries the family side. The personal injury listing has no attorney biography attached to it on the pages our research covered.

Where this listing fits

Klosinski Overstreet is a small Georgia firm with a property-transaction spine and a set of adjacent practices built around it. The founders formed it in 1999 and both still practise there. Seven attorneys, two offices, two state bars.

Anyone weighing this firm for a closing, a bankruptcy filing or a trademark application will find the relevant attorney named and their work described on the site. That is the standard this directory applies, and Klosinski Overstreet meets it on the facts its own pages publish.