Law firm names 2 new partners.Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver shrive v. shrove or shrived, shriv·en or shrived, shriv·ing, shrives v.tr. 1. To hear the confession of and give absolution to (a penitent). 2. & Jacobson announced that Stephen Lefkowitz and Melanie Meyers will join Fried Frank as real estate partners, resident in the New York office. Lefkowitz comes to the firm from Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, where he was a senior partner whose practice focused on real estate development, with an emphasis on land use and complex projects involving public/private partnerships. He has left his mark on the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. skyline by working on such major projects as Battery Park City, Metro Tech Center, the 42nd Street Development Project, AOL Time Warner Center The Time Warner Center is a mixed-use skyscraper developed by The Related Companies in New York City. Its design, by David Childs and Mustafa Kemal Abadan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, consists of two 229 m (750 ft) towers bridged by a multi-story atrium containing upscale retail and Queens West. Lefkowitz also served as general counsel to the New York State Urban Development Corporation (1971-1975), as well as counsel to the New York State Senate The New York State Senate is one of two houses in the New York State Legislature and has members each elected to two-year terms. The state Constitution provides that the default membership be fifty members. Committee on Housing and Urban Development (1976), and he was an associate professor at Columbia University School of Law (1976-1982). Lefkowitz received his LLB, magna cum laude, in 1962 from Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Law is considered one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. , where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review, and his BA from Yale College, summa cum laude, in 1959. Meyers also comes to the firm from Pillsbury Winthrop, where she was a partner in the real estate development practice. She served as general counsel to the Department of City Planning for New York City (1994-1998) and an associate professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (1990-1994). Meyers received her JD in 1987 from Columbia University, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an editor and board member of the Columbia Law Review. She received her B.S. in architectural design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, in 1982. Fried Frank's real estate practice was recently rated one of the top real estate practices in the United States by Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers (2002-2003 edition). |
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