Overview

Joseph Arena is Board Certified by the Florida Bar in Condominium & Planned Development Law, a distinction held by only 5% of Florida Bar attorney members. Board certification is the Florida Bar’s highest level of competence, professionalism, and expertise and requires peer review, ongoing education, and a rigorous exam.

Mr. Arena focuses his practice exclusively on the representation of condominium associations and homeowners’ associations in transactional, operational, corporate, and litigation matters. Mr. Arena is responsible for interpreting and amending governing documents, providing legal opinions on operational and corporate matters, assisting with board member elections, recalls, and related arbitrations, and drafting contracts and contract addenda. His experience also includes pursuing appropriate legal action to address violations of restrictive covenants and association rules, supervising the collection of assessments, prosecuting assessment lien foreclosure actions, defending mortgage foreclosure actions, prosecuting and defending quiet title actions, and representing associations as creditors’ counsel in bankruptcies.