Law firm names 2 new partners

Real Estate Weekly, Jan 22, 2003

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & 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 skyline by working on such major projects as Battery Park City, Metro Tech Center, the 42nd Street Development Project, AOL Time Warner Center 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 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, 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 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).