Kristen King Jaiven, Esq.

Kristen King Jaiven, Esq., is an attorney at Nishad Khan P.L. who focuses her practice on representing small businesses, including real estate brokerages and other related ventures. Kristen has experience in DBPR investigations, Board of Realtors® complaints, and brokerage compliance matters. Kristen currently represents the 4th Appellate District on the Florida Realtor-Attorney Joint Committee and serves as Co-Chair of the Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section’s (RPPTL) Residential Real Estate and Industry Liaison Committee. Kristen is a Florida Realtors® Instructor.

Previously, Kristen served as the General Counsel and Vice President of The Signature Real Estate Companies - one of the largest privately-owned real estate brokerages in the state of Florida - and as in-house counsel for American Tower Corporation focusing on commercial real estate. During law school, Kristen clerked for the South Florida Water Management District where she worked on environmental enforcement matters. She is the author of A Proposed Reconciliation of Stakeholder Interests in the GE Soybean Industry and Role of Earth Jurisprudence Principles (Florida A&M University Law Review 2014), co-author of The Value of South Florida Real Estate when A1A is Under Water: Sea Level Rise and Private Property Rights (Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar’s Spring ActionLine Issue), and co-author of a chapter on factory farming in What Can Animal law Learn from Environmental law? (Randall S. Abate, ed., ELI Press, 2015 and second edition 2020). Kristen holds a J.D. from St. Thomas University School of Law with a Certificate in Environmental Justice and has an LL.M. in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School with a Certificate in Food and Agriculture Law. Kristen received the Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section’s (RPPTL) 2021-2022 Rising Star award.