Schneiderman & Sherman Adds Three New Attorneys and Foreclosure Manager

Michigan-based real estate law firm Schneiderman & Sherman, P.C. has added three new attorneys – Steven Jacobs (litigation manager); Elina Fonarev (associate attorney in the litigation department); and Margaret Lukshaitis (junior associate attorney in the foreclosure department); and a new foreclosure manager, Kim Kress, to the firm.

Jacobs, before joining Schneiderman & Sherman, represented servicers, investors, and lenders in all aspects of court cases (motions, trials, and appeals in state and federal courts) for eight and a half years with a primary focus of mortgage banking legal issues, default servicing, and title curative. Jacobs earned a law degree from the University of Detroit-Mercy School of Law and a bachelor's degree cum laude in finance and business economics from Wayne State University in Detroit.

Fonarev specializes in civil litigation, with areas of focus that include lien property, construction and condominium liens, foreclosure, quiet title, mortgage reformation, and landlord-tenant actions. She has a bachelor's degree in political theory and constitutional democracy from Michigan State University, James Madison College. She was a student attorney and board member of the Free Legal Aid Clinic at Wayne State University, where she earned her law degree.

Lukshaitis received a bachelor's degree in history and journalism from Western Michigan University, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. She received her law degree from Wayne State University in May 2014. While at Wayne State, she served as an editor for the Journal of Law in Society and participated in legal clinics such as the Legal Advocacy for People with Cancer Clinic.

Kress has worked in the default, lending, and title industries for 20 years. Her default servicing experience includes working in nearly every facet of the industry from front-end foreclosure to default litigation. As the foreclosure manager for Schneiderman & Sherman, she oversees the sale, post sale, alternative services, and loss mitigation departments.