Courtney E. Buchner

Courtney has been a real property tax paralegal since 2011.  She is highly skilled in all aspects of real property tax, including design and usage of database programs, document management software and coordinating the flow of information among attorneys and clients.  Courtney has also assisted in the ongoing development of a specialized computer software system dedicated to real property tax and trained staff in connection with those developments.  This specialized software system was pioneered at Vorys.

Special Skills:

• Case and project management
• Excel
• OneNote
• PerfectLaw

Notable experience includes:

• Managing a docket of hundreds of cases annually
• Managing collection of valuation data for thousands of parcels multiple times annually
• Drafting real estate tax complaints and petitions for commercial and residential properties in multiple states
• Assisting attorneys in preparing multi-year real property tax projections utilized by clients in the underwriting process to analyze, anticipate and mitigate potential property tax impacts
• Preparing tax savings analyses

Prior to joining Vorys, Courtney was a real property tax valuation paralegal for another firm in northeast Ohio.