Mr. Jeff D. Lefkowitz, Private Law Practice

Jeff Lefkowitz has extensive experience with a wide range of business disputes, with emphasis in real estate, lease, construction, structured settlement, municipal and contract litigation. For a number of years, Jeff's practice included substantial transactional work, which gives him familiarity and experience with underlying documents not common to many litigators. He is also a mediator specializing in real estate and other business disputes.

Representative Experience:

• Successfully handled numerous lease disputes with issues ranging from surrender by operation of law, enforceability of renewal provisions, esoteric subtenancy issues, covenants to operate, use provisions, and a wide variety of other complex landlord-tenant issues to more mundane collection issues.
• Handled chemical plant construction litigation resulting in a multi-million-dollar settlement for the client-owner in one case and in a favorable settlement to a contractor-client in another large case.
• Successfully handled, on appeal, the reversal of a judgment that had awarded damages and held unconstitutional certain of the client-city's ordinances. Defeated, at the trial court, an attack on the constitutionality of the client-city's enforcement practices.
• Successfully handled litigation against a major real estate developer-client involving claims of ownership of a multi-million-dollar real estate portfolio.
• Successfully obtained injunctive relief in restrictive convenant, real estate, bailment and unfair competition cases.
• Successfully represented officers and stockholders in a protracted shareholder dispute.