Kevin Connoley
Kevin Connoley is an Associate at Lewis Gianola in the Morgantown office. Kevin provides guidance and assistance to residential and commercial clients with real estate transactions, financing, and business matters. Kevin empowers clients to make smart, informed decisions that align with their best interests especially when they face complicating roadblocks to their goals. His client-focused practice is heavily centered on residential and commercial real estate transactions.
Education
West Virginia University College of Law, J.D., 2017
Northwestern University, B.S., 1993
Recognition
Member of the American Bar Association
Member of the West Virginia Bar Association
After a long career in commercial radio broadcasting, Kevin quickly developed a robust real estate and business practice. A familiar voice of North Central West Virginia’s morning routine, Kevin became an award-winning talker and presenter during a radio career of more than two decades that began in 1994 with Eric McGuire on The Eric and Kevin Show on WVAQ 102 FM and then The Kevin Connoley Show. Kevin’s radio programs were named “Best Morning Show” by the West Virginia Broadcasters Association a whopping six times and helped WVAQ win the National Association of Broadcasters’ coveted Marconi Award recognizing excellence in radio presentation.
Community Involvement
Kevin stays active in charitable organizations, especially those with a youth focus, including:
Morgantown Theatre Company, Vice-President of the Board of Directors
United Way of Mon and Preston Counties, Former Board Member
Morgantown Youth Baseball, Former Board Member
Youth baseball and softball coach
Admissions
State of West Virginia
Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
United States District Court for Southern District of West Virginia
United States District Court for Northern District of West Virginia
Kevin’s practice includes commercial and residential real estate projects, transactions, financing, leasing, servitudes and community and homeowner associations. He is an approved attorney and agent for Old Republic National Title Insurance Company and First American Title Insurance Company.
Kevin represents businesses in routine and complex transactions and prepares estate and trust plans. Kevin emphasizes compassion and attentiveness to his clients, with the goal of responding to their needs thoughtfully and personally.
Kevin has assisted commercial entities in acquiring new spaces for those businesses to grow and thrive. This has included assisting a church organization with the purchase of the church building it had been previously renting, and helping an outdoor tourism company acquire additional land to expand its whitewater rafting business.
Kevin has also helped hundreds of homeowners get through the process of buying a new home, and really enjoys helping those buyers clear the various hurdles that come up during that process, and get them to their goal. Kevin’s preparation and attention to detail are keys in keeping the closing process on track. Kevin gets great satisfaction from finding a solution that keeps a transaction moving forward when it appears circumstances will derail a deal.
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