Charles Daroff

Partner-in-Charge | Mayfield

Overview

Charles is a Partner in WH Burkley’s Real Estate Group and Partner-in-Charge of the Mayfield office. With over three decades of experience, Charles regularly advises global, national, and regional clients on complex commercial real estate acquisition, disposition, finance, and leasing transactions involving shopping centers, offices, manufacturing facilities, and industrial buildings across the United States.

In addition to his legal practice, Charles has spoken on leasing, financing, and a variety of other real estate topics at national and regional industry conferences and served as an adjunct real estate law professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

Experience

  • Lectures at legal and real estate trade group seminars on leasing, financing and other real estate topics
  • Teaches real estate law and real estate finance at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  • Former adjunct faculty member of Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Recognition

  • Legal 500 –Real Estate (Elite Ohio) | 2026-present
  • Chambers – Real Estate (Ohio) | 2010-present
  • Best Lawyers – Real Estate | 2008-present
  • Super Lawyers – Real Estate (Ohio) | 2006-2025
  • Cleveland Jewish News – Difference Maker | 2020
  • Best Lawyers – Real Estate “Lawyer of the Year” (Cleveland) | 2013
  • Martindale Hubble – Real Estate | Distinguished

Associations

  • Ohio State Bar Association | Member
  • Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association | Member
  • International Council of Shopping Centers | Member
  • B’nai Jeshurun Congregation | Former Legal Advisor and Executive Committee Member
  • Agnon School | Former Board of Trustees

Education

  • Case Western Reserve University, J.D.
  • Case Western Reserve University, B.A.