Charles L. Edwards concentrates his practice exclusively in the area of complex commercial real estate transactions, including purchase and sale; mortgage financing; leasing; joint ventures and partnerships; condominium development and conversion; cooperative housing transactions; general development and all other aspects of commercial real estate practice.

In Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, the respected English research firm Chambers & Partners lists Mr. Edwards as a Senior Statesman in real estate. Commenting on his "delighted clients," the respected publisher terms him "consummate and focused" and says he is “a wonderful practitioner who is always fully engaged.” Mr. Edwards is listed in the Guide to the World's Leading Real Estate Lawyers. Mr. Edwards is also listed under Illinois real estate lawyers in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers. In every year since 2005, as the result of research projects conducted jointly by Law & Politics and Chicago magazines, Mr. Edwards has been designated an Illinois Super Lawyer in the area of real estate; from 2005-2008, he was listed among the state's Top 100 Super Lawyers. In 2007, the Illinois Leading Lawyers Network named him among its Top 100 Leading Business Lawyers as well as to its list of the state's Top 100 Leading Lawyers. 

Mr. Edwards was chairperson of a working group responsible for drafting proposed state legislation clarifying the ability to charge "compound interest" in commercial loan transactions and a member of working groups that developed a bar association sponsored form of mortgagor's counsel legal opinion and drafted a non-judicial foreclosure statute for possible adoption in Illinois.

In 1997 and 1998, Mr. Edwards was an adjunct professor of law at The John Marshall Law School, where he taught Real Estate Finance Law in the Real Estate Law LL.M. program. In 2005, he was appointed to serve as a Curley Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. As a Curley Fellow, he developed and teaches a legal writing and American Legal Practice course, in a commercial law context, in the Master of Laws program. In addition to his appointment, Mr. Edwards has a continuing role as real estate law advisor to various programs at the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. Mr. Edwards is co-editor of the newsletter published by the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.

ZULASSUNGEN

• Illinois

Mitgliedschaften

• American College of Real Estate Lawyers
• American College of Mortgage Attorneys
• The Lawyers Club of Chicago
• American Bar Association
• Illinois State Bar Association
• Chicago Bar Association

Seminars

• Lecturer, "Commercial Real Estate Financing - What Borrowers and Lenders Need to Know" seminar sponsored by the Practising Law Institute (March 2007 and May 1999)
• Speaker, "Commercial Mortgage Loan Commitments: A Borrower's Perspective," Chicago Bar Association/Young Lawyers Section Real Estate Law Committee (November 2003)
• Co-editor, "Financing Documents for Real Property" chapter of a multi-volume treatise entitled Illinois Real Estate Forms published by Aspen Publishers, Inc.
• Speaker, "Current Issues in Negotiating Commercial Leases," seminar sponsored by the Practising Law Institute (October 1994, November 1995 and November 1996)
• Speaker on various real estate practice topics at seminars sponsored by the Chicago Bar Association and clients of the firm.

Ehrenamtliche und gemeinnützige Tätigkeiten

• Member and past chair of The University of Chicago Law School Visiting Committee
• Past chairman (1992-93) and Vice-Chair (1991-92) of the Chicago Bar Association's Real Property Law Committee
• Past chair of the Real Property Finance and Continuing Legal Education Subcommittees of the Real Property Law Committee