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Kierstin M. Lange

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Kierstin M. Lange

Kierstin M. Lange is an innate competitor with extremely high ethical standards and has earned a reputation as a fierce, focused, and competitive litigator through her extensive career of effectively and efficiently representing her commercial clients. Although Kierstin is a litigator, her practice has evolved to include alternative dispute resolution and transactional expertise, thereby efficiently satisfying the needs of her client base.

Kierstin is a partner in Zarwin Baum’s commercial litigation group, practicing throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Kierstin has spent the majority of her practice representing commercial landowners, property management companies, asset managers, REITs and individuals at the state and federal levels. Kierstin has successfully mediated, arbitrated and litigated complex commercial disputes on behalf of small and large corporations. Kierstin’s most recent areas of practice include contract enforcement, commercial landlord/tenant, construction and zoning disputes, business torts, real estate, bad faith, professional malpractice, corporate restructuring/bankruptcy, confessions of judgment, and collection practices. Kierstin began her career at a long-standing and successful boutique firm with a focus on all areas of commercial real estate.

Kierstin currently handles all aspects of civil litigation, from pre-litigation counseling, analysis and strategy, to pleadings and discovery, to dispositive motion practice, trial advocacy and pre-trial/post-trial proceedings.

Kierstin received her J.D. from Villanova School of Law in 2005.  Prior to law school, Kierstin graduated from Fairfield University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business while being a member of the Division I women’s lacrosse team. Kierstin is admitted to practice law throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey and before the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey. Kierstin is also a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association. When Kierstin is not practicing law you can find her in a football stadium, on a golf course, or by the ocean.

Representative Matters

Tenant Not Released from Lease Following Water Intrusion Event & Landlord Entitled to Summary Judgment

After nearly three years of litigating an extremely contentious lawsuit with a former tenant at the Princeton Shopping Center in Princeton, New Jersey, Kierstin Lange convinced The Honorable Douglas H. Hurd, Presiding Judge of Mercer County Superior Court’s Civil Division, that Great Clips’ breach of contract, negligence and warranty of habitability counterclaims all must be dismissed as a matter of law because they were legally insufficient and defective, despite numerous extensions of the discovery deadline prior to and during the involuntary Covid-19 court closures.

COVID-19 Does Not Excuse Tenants from their Rental Obligations

Less than one week after defeating the arguments of a New Jersey commercial tenant that the COVID-19 pandemic frustrated the purpose of its lease and rendered performance impossible, Tony Twardowski and Kierstin Lange convinced Judge Curtis Joyner of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to reject identical arguments raised by global retailer, Cole Haan, to excuse its payment of rent under a long-term commercial lease for its retail store located in center city Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Court Admissions

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for District of New Jersey

Bar Admissions

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

Memberships

PA Bar Association

BOMA Toby Committee

CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) Greater Philadelphia

Education

Villanova School of Law, J.D.

International Business, Fairfield University, B.S.