"Lisa is great to work with. She is always eager to assist and provides timely documents and counsel."
Chambers USA
Lisa has represented landlords and tenants in office, industrial and retail lease negotiations, and purchasers and sellers in real property acquisitions.
Lisa has served as counsel to borrowers and lenders in secured financing transactions involving corporate, nonprofit and health care sector borrowers.
She represents clients in municipal matters, including lot split and zoning issues.
Lisa helps clients complete transactions involving single or multiple site real properties as well as those transactions in which she manages the real property components of corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, public finance and larger commercial finance credit facilities.
She has assisted a variety of client types including corporations, private equity companies, nonprofit organizations and institutions.
Ranked by Chambers USA 2022 in Real Estate (Ohio) in Band 4, Lisa is described by clients as "Great to work with. She is always eager to assist and provides timely documents and counsel." Chambers researchers stated, "[Lisa} offers her clients the benefit of extensive expertise in real estate transactions, including acquisitions and development deals."
Lisa has spoken at seminars presented by the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.
Lisa worked as an associate senior planner for the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission and then practiced law with historical Cleveland firm Kahn Kleinman LPA before joining Calfee in 2006. Lisa is a member of Calfee's Associate Committee.
J.D., cum laude, Cleveland State University College of Law, CALI Award for Legal Writing, CALI Award for Zoning and Land Use Law, Law Review Articles Editor, 2001
B.S., The Ohio State University, 1992
"Lisa is great to work with. She is always eager to assist and provides timely documents and counsel."
Chambers USA