Tal Rappleyea is a real estate and municipal lawyer with nearly three decades of law experience. Tal is a solo practitioner with his own law practice, the Law Offices of Tal G. Rappleyea, located in Valatie, New York.

As a high school student at the Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School in Windham, New York, Tal was a member of the National Honor Society. This society is the nation’s top organization established to recognize outstanding high school students for scholarship, service, leadership, and character. Additionally, Tal excelled as the vice president of his class during both his junior and senior years of high school and attained varsity letters on four school-sponsored sports. After his high school graduation, Tal Rappleyea completed his undergraduate degree at the State University of New York, Cortland, (formerly known at Cortland State) where he majored in political science and minored in history. This academic combination has allowed him to work in the field of local government and public policy. He then went on and completed his Juris Doctorate at Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

In January 1989, Tal Rappleyea was admitted to the New York State Bar Association. This chapter of the bar association is the biggest voluntary state bar organization in the nation with over 74,000 lawyers. Tal is proud to be a member, considering former presidents Grover Cleveland and Chester A. Arthur were members of the New York State chapter as well.

As a community member, Tal Rappleyea is a supporter the New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials (NYCOM), which is an organization that trains municipal officials. Tal is also a member of the Capital District Trial Lawyers Association.

Currently, Tal owns his own private office and is a solo practitioner for the Law Offices of Tal G. Rappleyea in Valatie, New York. He can be credited with establishing and operating a law office with concentrations in municipal law and real estate. He serves individuals that need real estate guidance as well as several counties in New York state that require a representative to handle municipal law issues.

Tal Rappleyea has these skills to specialize in the following federal and state real estate law issues in New York state:

• Leases, sales, and purchases of real estate
• Claims settlements
• Financing, investments, mortgages and foreclosures
• Land deeds
• Landlord to tenant issues and owner to community issues
• Rights to land possession and use, including man-made items such as appliances that have already been installed on the premises

When Tal is not practicing law, you can find him out on the golf range.