Danielle Stager Zoller, Member

I protect my client's interests by paying close attention to the details that make a significant difference in real estate deals.

Danielle represents developers, lenders and investors in real estate.

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Danielle is Chair of the firm’s Real Estate team and she serves on the Firm’s Executive Committee. She is also a member in the firm’s Business Law, Energy & Environment, Health Care, and EMERGE practice groups. She represents clients in matters involving the acquisition, sale, financing, construction, leasing, management, and development of commercial and residential real estate. Her clients range from large corporations to small businesses and individuals, and include developers, landlords, tenants, lenders and investors, as well as condominium associations, homeowners associations and residential property owners.

Danielle’s experience includes contract drafting and negotiation; closings and settlements; lease preparation and review for landlords and tenants; title review; loan transactions for lenders and borrowers; construction contracts; real estate covenants and easements; condominium conversions; and matters relating to commercial condominiums, homeowners associations and other common interest ownership projects. She works with business owners, management companies and property owners to advance and protect their interests.

Danielle’s practice also focuses on real estate issues for solar and other energy projects, including due diligence review, title and survey examination, advice on property taxes, controlling interest taxes, and recordation and transfer taxes, and negotiation of solar options, leases, easements and other site control instruments. She provides local Maryland counsel on solar projects of all sizes, including utility-scale solar projects and community solar projects.

Danielle frequently serves as local Maryland counsel and local Virginia counsel on multistate transactions, which involve properties in Maryland and Virginia. She provides local counsel opinions and advice on recordation and transfer taxes in Maryland and Virginia.

Danielle enjoys being a trusted advisor for her clients. As an experienced and respected lawyer, she helps clients achieve their business goals quickly and efficiently.

Prior to joining Gordon Feinblatt in 2001, Danielle was an associate with a law firm in Northern Virginia, and prior to that she was a Clerk for the Hon. William R. Shelton in Chesterfield County, Virginia.

Honors

Named to The Daily Record's Business Law Power List, 2025

Named to Best Lawyers in America^®for Real Estate Law since 2021

Recipient, Leadership in Law Award, The DailyRecord, 2020

Recipient, Maryland's Top 100 Women Award, The Daily Record, 2019 & 2025

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Professional and Civic Involvement

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Maryland State Bar Association

Member, Virginia State Bar

President and Board Member, Community Housing Associates, Inc.

Board Member, Afya Baltimore, Inc.

Member, MSBA Real Estate Section Council

Member, The Riveters Law Club

Member, Urban Land Institute (ULI) Baltimore

Member, National Association for Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP)

Secretary and Board Member, Planned Parenthood of Maryland, 2007-2016

Troop Leader and Cookie Manager, Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, 2018-2020

Women United Member, United Way of Central Maryland

Publications and Lectures

Presenter, "Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022," MylesTitle's 4th Quarter 2022 Breakfast and Seminar, October 20, 2022

Videos and Podcasts

Contact

dzoller@gfrlaw.com
410-576-4036

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Teams

Business
EMERGE
Energy & Environmental
Health Care
Real Estate

Education

J.D., University of Richmond School of Law, 1996
A.B., Duke University, 1990

Bar Admissions

Maryland, 2002
Virginia, 1996