JANIS B. SCHIFF
Partner
Holland & Knight
Janis B. Schiff serves as the firm's Real Estate Section leader. Based in Washington, D.C., Ms. Schiff coordinates the firm's Rising Stars mentoring and leadership program which she founded in 2001 and is the immediate past National Marketing Partner. She has extensive experience representing both landlords and tenants in commercial leasing of shopping centers, office buildings, restaurants, business parks, warehouses and unimproved land and also focuses her practice on lease workouts and restructurings, acquisition and sales contracts for improved and unimproved properties, development agreements, reciprocal easement and operating agreements, partnership agreements, condominium documents and real estate financing, including borrower and lender representation. Ms. Schiff is an Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Berman Real Estate Institute. She is also a frequent author and lecturer on leasing and general real estate transactional topics.
Professional Honors & Awards
- Top Lawyers by The Washingtonian Magazine, 2009
- Chambers USA – America's Leading Business Lawyers guide, Real Estate, 2008-2010
- The Best Lawyers in America guide, Real Estate Law, 2008-2011
- Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers magazine, 2008-2010
- Corporate Counsel Edition, Super Lawyers magazine, May 2009
- Top Washington Lawyer Finalist, Washington Business Journal, Real Estate, 2005
- Outstanding Achievement Award, Commercial Real Estate Women, District of Columbia Chapter, 2004
- Transnational Law Journal, Editor
- Woman of Achievement Award, Chicago Alliance of Women, 2009
Memberships
- International Council of Shopping Centers, former State Director
- International Council of Shopping Centers, former Government Affairs Chair
- International Council of Shopping Centers, former State Operations Chair
- Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), Suburban Maryland Chapter, past President
- Women in Retail Real Estate (WIRRE)
- Urban Land Institute - Full Member, Washington, D.C. District Council
- Georgetown University Law School Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute, Board Member
- Easter Seals Greater Washington-Baltimore Region, Board of Directors
- Washington Business Hall of Fame, 2010 Campaign Committee
- Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation, Holocaust Remembrance Project
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