Oliveri & Associates, LLC

Focus and practice areas

Oliveri & Larsen works out of Annapolis and takes clients from across Maryland. The firm calls itself a Maryland boutique with full-service representation for individuals, communities, families, and businesses. That mix of client types shows up directly in the practice list.

The core areas the firm names are business law, civil litigation, construction law, contracts law, family law, real estate law, and HOA, community association, and condominium law. Estate planning appears too, listed in the site navigation and the firm overview. Alongside those, the firm handles business administration, collections, contract disputes and negotiations, employment matters, and insurance.

In my opinion, the shape here is coherent rather than scattered. Business law, contracts, construction, real estate, and community association work all touch the same underlying questions about property, agreements, and who owes what to whom. A construction dispute often becomes a contracts case. A condominium matter often becomes a real estate one.

Family law and its sub-areas

The family law side is broken out in unusual detail on the firm's own navigation. Named sub-areas include divorce, child custody and support, adoption, alimony, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, domestic violence, and fathers' rights.

That granularity tells a reader something useful. A firm that lists adoption separately from divorce, and prenuptials separately from alimony, is signalling that it takes each as its own line of work.

General context on how these matters move

Maryland divorce cases run through the circuit court in the county where either spouse lives. Custody and support questions are frequently decided in the same proceeding, and support figures start from state guidelines tied to both parents' incomes. Financial disclosure forms are standard early paperwork.

Adoption follows a separate track. Petitions go before a circuit court judge, and the process usually involves consent from birth parents or a court finding that consent can be waived. Home studies and background checks are common requirements.

Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements are contracts, so they get judged partly on contract principles: whether both parties disclosed their finances, whether each had a chance to seek independent advice, and whether the terms were unconscionable when signed. This is general background on how such matters proceed, not a description of any particular case the firm has handled.

How the team is built

Five attorneys are named on the firm's Meet the Team page: John M. Oliveri, Timothy J. Larsen, Thomas J. Newton, Alexis S. Hellner, and Sarah P. Gillogly. Two of those names appear in the brand the firm uses publicly.

Five lawyers covering seven or eight practice areas means individual attorneys carry more than one area each. For a client, that usually translates into direct contact with the lawyer handling the file.

The legal entity behind the brand is Oliveri & Associates, LLC, per the structured data on the firm's site. The public-facing name and the registered name differ, which is common and worth knowing when a client reads an engagement letter or a court filing.

Where the firm works

Annapolis is the base, and the firm represents clients throughout Maryland. Its contact page names specific areas: Annapolis, Ocean City, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Howard County, Queen Anne's County, Kent County, and the Eastern Shore.

That geography spans the Chesapeake. Anne Arundel, Baltimore, and Howard counties sit on the western side and hold a large share of the state's population. Queen Anne's and Kent counties and Ocean City sit east, where the property market runs heavily toward waterfront, seasonal, and second-home ownership.

Community association work fits that map closely. Condominium and HOA matters cluster where there is dense residential development and shared property: waterfront condos on the Eastern Shore, planned communities in Howard and Anne Arundel. As a reviewer, I read the Ocean City and Eastern Shore coverage as connected to that practice area rather than incidental.

General context on association matters

Maryland HOA and condominium disputes often start inside the association itself, through the board and its governing documents. Assessment collection, covenant enforcement, and construction defect claims against a developer are recurring categories. Where the matter reaches court, the governing documents (declaration, bylaws, rules) usually do most of the work in deciding the outcome.

What the record shows

The firm's site says it has been doing this work for decades. It states no founding year, so the length of that history is what the firm asserts and nothing more precise.

The site publishes no email address. Contact runs through forms and the listed phone line. Social media labels appear in the footer for Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

Individual attorney biographies, law schools, bar admission years, and titles were not available in the material reviewed. That limits what can be said about the depth of experience behind each name. The roster, the practice list, and the service area can be checked against public records; the rest of the picture comes from what the firm itself publishes.

Who this listing will suit

A Maryland resident facing a divorce, a custody dispute, or an adoption will find those matters named individually on the firm's own pages. So will a homeowner in a dispute with an association board, or a business owner dealing with a contract, a collections file, or an employment question.

In my opinion, the strongest signal in this listing is the overlap between practice areas and geography. A firm that lists construction law, real estate, contracts, and community association work, then names Ocean City and the Eastern Shore among its service areas, is describing a practice organized around Maryland property and the agreements attached to it.

The firm operates from a single office at Bestgate Road in Annapolis and takes matters statewide from there. Five attorneys are named, and the practice areas number eight.

Individual attorney backgrounds

The attorney records add useful detail about John M. Oliveri. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1994. His stated work includes banking, land use and zoning, construction and development, insurance defense, general litigation, and ERISA matters.

That business degree is relevant context for the commercial side of his work. Banking and ERISA also add two regulated subjects that do not appear in the firm's broader service description. His profile connects those subjects with disputes over development and agreements, which gives a clearer account of the files he handles personally.

Timothy J. Larsen's profile identifies land use and zoning, litigation, business law, and landlord and tenant matters. The last category adds a distinct property relationship to the directory record. Land use work concerns how property may be developed or used, while landlord and tenant work concerns the rights created once possession changes hands under a lease.

Additional depth in property-related work

The profiles give the property practice more definition. Oliveri handles construction and development alongside land use and zoning. Larsen also lists zoning work, while Thomas J. Newton handles real estate matters. These entries place development approvals, disputes connected with building projects, and individual real estate files within the experience attributed to named lawyers.

Newton's stated work extends to debt collection, personal injury, and general practice. Debt collection fits the firm's published collections work, but his profile assigns that subject to a particular attorney. Personal injury is an additional category found in his individual record rather than the firm overview.

Newton also handles family matters. His combination of family, real estate, debt collection, and personal injury work suggests a broad civil caseload centered on issues faced by individuals. The record therefore distinguishes his practice from Oliveri's concentration on banking, development, insurance defense, and ERISA, and from Larsen's mix of zoning, business, and landlord and tenant matters.

Education and experience markers

Oliveri's 1994 law degree is the clearest dated professional marker in the attorney information. The records for Larsen and Newton identify their practice subjects but provide no law school or degree year. For Alexis S. Hellner and Sarah P. Gillogly, the available entries establish their place on the attorney roster without additional biographical detail.