Richard L. Vanderslice, P.C.

Focus and practice areas

This Philadelphia firm lists four practice areas on its website: real estate law, business litigation, personal injury and estate planning. The real estate section carries the longest list of matter types. The firm also helps clients buy and sell real estate in Philadelphia County. Three attorneys share the work across these areas.

The four areas connect in practice. A property sale can turn into a contract fight. A business breakup can raise a question of who owns a building. Real estate and business litigation carry the most detail on the site, and the other two areas fill out a general civil practice for individuals and small companies.

The real estate work in detail

Real estate is where the firm names the most specific work. The site lists foreclosures, eminent domain, Act 135 matters, quiet title actions, ejectment, partitions and commercial closings. It also names commercial real estate disputes. Buying and selling property in Philadelphia County sits alongside this litigation and transaction work.

Several of these terms point to contested ownership. Quiet title actions settle who legally holds a parcel when the record is unclear. Ejectment removes an occupant who has no legal right to stay. Eminent domain covers what happens when a government body takes private land for public use and owes the owner payment. In my opinion, the length and specificity of this list is the clearest signal of where the firm spends its time.

Act 135 deserves its own note. It is Pennsylvania's Abandoned and Blighted Property Conservatorship Act. The law lets a qualified party petition a court to take control of a blighted building and bring it back into use. Vanderslice has taught continuing education on Act 135 conservatorships, so this sits within his documented record.

Foreclosure and title work appears twice: once in the firm's real estate list and again in Vanderslice's teaching topics. A title problem is a defect in the chain of ownership that can block a sale or a loan. Foreclosure matters move on a court timeline in Pennsylvania, with required notices before a property can be sold at sheriff's sale. Partitions and ejectment, both on the firm's list, are the tools courts use to divide co-owned land or to recover possession.

Business, estate and injury matters

The business practice covers contract disputes, partnership disputes and trade secret misappropriation. It also handles business formation and business dissolution, so the firm can work with a company at its start and at its close. Contract and partnership disputes often turn on the words of a signed agreement and on what the parties did after signing. Trade secret claims add a question of what information a business kept confidential and how.

Business formation and dissolution sit at the two ends of a company's life. Formation work sets up the entity, files it with the state and puts the founding agreements in place. Dissolution winds the entity down, settles its obligations and distributes what remains. Handling both means the firm can advise the same owners across the years between.

Estate planning at the firm includes wills, trusts, powers of attorney and advance directives. The same group handles probate and trust administration. Probate moves a will through the local Register of Wills and settles debts before assets pass to heirs. Trust administration follows the terms a grantor set, under the duties the law places on a trustee. A power of attorney and an advance directive both take effect while a person is alive: the first covers financial acts and the second covers medical choices.

Personal injury is the fourth area. The firm lists bicycle, car, truck, motorcycle and pedestrian accidents. It also handles wrongful death, premises liability and product liability claims. These matters run on Pennsylvania's rules of civil procedure and its standards for fault and damages. A premises case asks whether a property owner kept the space reasonably safe.

How the team is built

The website names three attorneys. Richard L. Vanderslice is listed as Attorney at Law, and his focus is real estate and business litigation. He also handles personal injury matters and holds a license to practice in New Jersey. His continuing education record adds detail to that focus.

Vanderslice has presented classes to other lawyers on Act 135 conservatorships, trial techniques for small firms, short-term rentals, and foreclosure and title issues. Those topics track the real estate and litigation work the firm lists. Teaching a subject to peers is a public marker of a lawyer's working area. As a reviewer, I weight that kind of record alongside a firm's own description of itself.

Of counsel and associate

Anthony J. Caiazzo, Jr. is Of Counsel to the firm. His biography ties him to the law offices of Anthony J. Caiazzo, Jr., Esquire, P.C. That practice was founded in 1965 by Anthony Caiazzo Sr., and the biography states it has served South Philadelphia for more than 40 years. An Of Counsel role is a standing association with a firm that keeps its own separate identity.

Anastasia Lattanze is listed as Attorney at Law. She was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in February 2021. She earned an undergraduate degree from Lebanon Valley College in 2017 and a Juris Doctorate from Drexel University in 2020. She works alongside Vanderslice and Caiazzo.

What the record shows

The firm's site gives more room to real estate than to its other areas, and the attorney credentials line up with that weighting. The public facts here are the four practice lists, the three attorney profiles, and one attorney's education and bar admission year. The site does not list a founding year for Richard L. Vanderslice, P.C. itself.

The firm states its real estate reach for Philadelphia County, where it helps clients buy and sell property. That county focus fits a practice built around local courts, local recording offices and the local Register of Wills. Real estate litigation and estate work both live close to those same institutions.

A firm of this size usually keeps the same lawyers on a matter through its full course, which is common among small Philadelphia practices. The named areas overlap in useful ways, so a client with a property problem and a related contract question can keep both under one roof. Vanderslice's litigation background and Lattanze's 2021 admission put two career stages on the same team.

The clearest facts are the practice lists and the people behind them. Richard L. Vanderslice focuses on real estate and business litigation. Anthony J. Caiazzo, Jr. is Of Counsel with a South Philadelphia lineage that dates to 1965. Anastasia Lattanze joined the Pennsylvania Bar in 2021 and works across the firm's civil practice.