We are a resource for community development.
When faced with opportunities or challenges, our clients rely on our decades of experience to successfully navigate each transaction, no matter the type of development.
We’ve been helping our clients build and grow for more than 120 years.
Whether on the job site or in the boardroom, our team offers sound guidance to private business owners, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, municipalities and real-estate professionals in all phases of acquisition, finance and development.
120 + years of history
Years of history protecting the business interests of our clients.
15 attorneys
WLJ attorneys recognized by The Best Lawyers in America© for their work in corporate and transactional areas.
Wright Lindsey Jennings offers a wide range of real estate-related legal services, including acquisition and sale of properties; finance; representation of landlords in documentation and negotiation of commercial leases; real estate tax issues confronted by owners of real estate, timberland and land management issues; and litigation involving real estate. We also provide services to owners of residential real estate in a variety of matters.
We regularly represent landowners and governmental bodies in litigation involving real property. This includes disputes over easements in both Circuit Court and County Court, boundary line issues, nuisance claims, and the enforcement or defense of real estate covenants.
In addition to our general real estate practice, we regularly counsel owners and developers of real property with legal issues related to the design and development of commercial, office, retail and residential properties in the State of Arkansas. We also frequently represent clients before local planning commissions, city councils and other bodies having jurisdiction over planning, zoning and development matters in and around Arkansas metropolitan areas.
Representing a number of local improvement districts created to fund and construct public streets, utilities and other public improvements required by the City of Little Rock in connection with the expansion of various neighborhoods in the city.
The firm has represented various State agencies, cities and counties throughout the State of Arkansas in financings involving energy savings transactions, both taxable and tax exempt, for financing of such projects as solar facilities for the generation of electricity, natural gas and coal-fired electric generating facilities, government buildings and facilities, and tax-exempt lease transactions to finance the full range of governmental and commercial energy facilities.
Specifically with respect to energy bond and tax-exempt energy lease transactions, in the past five years Walter McSpadden has represented approximately one dozen Arkansas governmental entities in connection with the issuance of more than $400,000,000 in energy financings.