Business Litigation Lawyer in Houston - Jeff Lefkowitz
Jeff Lefkowitz is a member of the American Arbitration Association’s National Panel of Commercial Arbitrators. He is also a mediator specializing in real estate and other business disputes. He has extensive experience with a wide range of business disputes, with emphasis in real estate, lease, construction 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 arbitrators.
Areas of Practice
- Litigation
- Arbitration and Mediation
Bar and Court Admissions
- Texas
Representative Experience
- Arbitration of business, real estate, lease, contract, and consumer cases.
- 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, through appeal, affirmance of substantial judgment against surety on performance bond claim.
- Successfully handled trial and appeals of several cases involving arbitrability related to structural settlements.
- 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 covenant, real estate, bailment and unfair competition cases.
- Successfully represented officers and stockholders in a protracted shareholder dispute.
Education
- The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas
- J.D. (cum laude) – 1981
- Law Review: Texas Law Review
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
- B.B.A. (magna cum laude) – 1978
- Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Houston Bar Association, Appellate Practice and Construction Law Sections
- American Arbitration Association, Arbitrator
