Resource Links

Recommended Law Firm and Government Agency Websites

de Ondarza Simmons, PLLC focuses on business and real estate litigation in North Carolina state and federal courts. Occasionally, we are asked for referrals or recommendations for specific legal problems outside our areas of expertise or in another jurisdiction in which we don’t practice. So, for recommended resources you may want to visit the following sites. The sites listed are either government sites with public information or private sites that have indicated interest in the areas mentioned. Without knowing the facts of your situation, we  cannot recommend any one site, lawyer or law firm over another, so this list can be used as a starting point for your making your own decision after researching which public site or lawyers to choose.

Helpful Law Firm Sites

Personal Injury Attorney Portland

E.J. Simmons is a Portland Personal Injury Attorney, helping people who have been injured by others’ negligence. His practice includes motorcycle injuries, electrocution accidents, and the special area of federal tort claims against negligent federal government employees or agencies. E.J. Simmons is, of course, the father-in-law of Inez de Ondarza Simmons.

 

The Raleigh DWI Lawyer

John McWilliam is “The Raleigh DWI Lawyer“.  He is a highly skilled criminal defense attorney who enjoys trying cases to the Judges and Juries alike.  He feels particularly passionate about DWI law and informing people charged with DWI of their rights.  To see his video on what to do if you get pulled over on suspicion of DWI in North Carolina, you should click here.

 

 

Cary Real Estate Closing Attorney and Refinance Lawyer

Kellie Chappell Gonzalez is an outstanding Cary Real Estate Closing Attorney who handles residential real estate sales and refinancing closings throughout Wake County. In addition, she and Inez de Ondarza Simmons occasionally work together to represent clients in real estate litigation matters in North Carolina State and Federal Courts. To read the 5-Star client reviews of Kellie, you should click here.

 

 

Government Websites with Helpful Information

Wake County Register of Deeds Laura M. Riddick

The Wake County Register of Deeds website has always been a great resource for Wake County lawyers. Now, Laura Riddick has brought out a great new website that has business records (like DBA records and assumed name filings) as well as real estate records online back to 1775!  The business records are key for North Carolina business litigators and transaction lawyers alike.  The real estate documents are an enormous help to Wake County real estate litigators, for example Raleigh real estate dispute lawyers who have to retrieve and analyze recorded deeds and other instruments to represent their clients in partition actions, adverse possession disputes, or boundary disputes.

Wake County GIS iMaps

Recently, Wake County and the City of Raleigh joined forces to vastly improve the combined online GIS iMaps for Raleigh and Wake County. New features include:

• Google street view is available from within iMaps;
• there is a zoomed out box, so you can see your general location;
• when you select a feature, a box pops-up over top of the map, instead of re-drawing the whole map; and
• to the lower right of the map there are direct links to the tax card, zoning information, and different layers as well as other options.

There is even a Quick Start guide for the new Wake County GIS iMaps.  This Wake County GIS iMaps upgrade is a huge help to Raleigh eminent domain attorneys, including our firm.  To see the new GIS, you should click here.

North Carolina Secretary of State – Corporations Division

Elaine Marshall is the North Carolina Secretary of State.  That Department’s main website is here. To use the Department’s Corporations Division to search for a business entity by name, you should click here. If you have a real estate dispute involving real estate owned or leased by a business entity, a corporate name search can tell you whether that entity exists, if it has merged or been renamed, if it is still active, and who the registered agent is, so that you can affect proper service of process.

NCDOT & Secondary Road Lookup:

The North Carolina Department of Transportation has an enormous website at www.ncdot.org.  One locating tool that is very helpful is the Secondary Road (“SR”) look up located here.  With it you can search by name or SR number.  NCDOT recently updated its website, including the SR lookup page.  New features of the SR lookup page including being able to pull up the whole list of all Secondary Roads in a given county and being able to download that list as an Excel spreadsheet.  (Note: Currently, when you click the links above for the SR Lookup, you will be automatically redirected to the correct httpS site, but it will take 10 seconds. A direct link to the httpS, address produces warning flags, which can be confusing.  So, our links are to the http site that automatically takes you to the correct httpS site, but it takes an extra 10 seconds.)

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Ms. de Ondarza Simmons is a North Carolina business and real estate trial attorney. She is admitted to practice before the North Carolina State Courts as well as the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of North Carolina. Ms. de Ondarza Simmons represents clients in business disputes, including breach of contract actions, fraud cases, and class actions against large financial institutions, like national banks. She also represents clients in Raleigh and throughout North Carolina in real estate disputes, such as eminent domain (land condemnation), adverse possession, and judicial partition actions.  In addition, other attorneys frequently associate Ms. de Ondarza Simmons as co-counsel in complicated business or real estate matters in North Carolina State and Federal Courts.  If she can help you (or help you help your client), please click the Contact Us page and call or send us an email.