Ann O’Connell is a Legal Editor and attorney at Nolo specializing in landlord-tenant and real estate law. Ann is a coauthor of Nolo’s Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home, which won a silver Benjamin Franklin Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association in 2020, Every Landlord’s Legal Guide, Saving the Family Cottage, Renter’s Rights, Leases and Rental Agreements, and Every Tenant’s Legal Guide.
Before joining Nolo as an editor, Ann practiced civil litigation and transactional law in California and Colorado. Her practice over the years has focused mainly on real estate, landlord-tenant, and small business matters.”
Ann earned her B.A. from Boston College and her J.D. from UC Berkeley Law. She has passed the bar exams in California, Nevada, and Colorado, where she is both an active attorney and a real estate broker.
Ann’s favorite part of writing about landlord-tenant matters is the opportunity to help tenants — who often find it difficult to afford or hire a lawyer to represent them — understand and assert their rights. Ann’s research and writing on coronavirus-related eviction bans and tenant rights has been cited by numerous news outlets and government agencies, including Yahoo Finance, CNET, Fannie Mae, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).