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Practice Expertise
- Real Estate
Areas of Practice
- Real Estate
- Construction Law
- Leasing & Property Management
- Real Estate Development
- Real Estate Finance View More
Profile
Kelly Depew Metz is a real estate associate in Dykema's San Antonio office. Kelly focuses her practice on transactional commercial real estate matters.
Kelly works with both landlords and tenants, and buyers and sellers of large-scale commercial projects. Kelly is experienced with negotiating and drafting purchase contracts and related closing documents, real estate loan documents, commercial leases, and AIA construction contracts. Kelly also performs complex real estate research and various forms of transactional due diligence, including title and survey review and analysis.
At Baylor Law School, Kelly served as Managing Executive Editor of the Baylor Law Review. In her first year, Kelly received the Public Service Award for Most Pro Bono Service Hours. Baylor Law inducted Kelly into the Order of the Barristers, and selected her for four separate advocacy teams, including moot court and mock trial. Kelly wrote an appellate brief and presented oral arguments in front of the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas, and won the 2015 Mack Kidd Administrative Law Moot Court Competition and Best Oralist.
Bar Admissions
Texas, 2017
Education
Baylor Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2017 University of Texas at Austin, B.A., with honors, 2014
Areas of Practice
- Real Estate
- Construction Law
- Leasing & Property Management
- Real Estate Development
- Real Estate Finance
Articles
Leasing Considerations During COVID-19 Pandemic
By Kelly Depew Metz |March 2020Leasing Considerations During COVID-19 Pandemic
By Kelly Depew Metz |March 2020
Blogs
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