LISA K. SKAIST, SENIOR COUNSEL

Lisa Skaist is an accomplished  Senior Counsel in the firm’s Litigation Department. As a highly skilled business litigator, she defends and prosecutes claims including partnership, fraud, and complex contract disputes for various clients such as shopping center owners, developers, retailers, and lenders. Her commercial real estate and business litigation practice covers disputes in both leasing and development, quiet title actions, prescriptive easement rights, construction defect claims, and breach of purchase and sale agreements. Additionally, Lisa has extensive appellate experience in district and state courts.

Lisa regularly collaborates with the firm’s real estate and corporate transactional attorneys on matters including entity formations, operating agreements, and shareholder agreements for a variety of business and corporate concerns.

She received her J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and her B.A., cum laude, from Tufts University.