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Super Lawyer – Washington, D.C. and Maryland in Real Estate Law, 2018, 2017, and 2012
Best Lawyers in America in Real Estate Law, 2021 - 2017, 2012 – 2004
US News & World Report Best Lawyers & Law Firms Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Real Estate, 2021 Tier 2; 2019, 2011 – 2012; Tier 3
Co-Chair (elected) and Financial Officer, D.C. Bar Real Estate Section and Steering Committee Member 1997-1992
A "Legal 500" Recommended U.S. Real Estate Lawyer for D.C. Transactions and Finance, 2007 – 2009
Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent 5.0 Peer Review Rating (5 is top rating) since 1998
Avvo 10.0 Rating (10 is top rating)
D.C. Bar Board of Elections, 1996 – 1998
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1984
Cornell University’s Graduate School of Management, 1979
Yale University, B.A. 1979
Co-Chair and Financial Officer – D.C. Bar Real Estate Section, 1992 – 1997
Frequent D.C. Bar Continuing Legal Education Faculty Panelist – Commercial Leasing and Development, 1988 – 2012
Bar Admissions: District of Columbia Maryland
Virginia Pennsylvania
Member – Board of Directors, National Foundation for Cancer Research, 2015 – present
Member and Past President – Board of Directors, Yale Club of Washington, D.C. , 2009 – present; President 2011 – 2015
Member, Mid-Atlantic Real Estate Corporate Counsel Association
Other Professional Affiliations:
Maryland State Bar Association
District of Columbia Bar
Virginia State Bar Association
Edward S. West
Our firm specializes in providing our clients with practical, cost-effective legal solutions to their commercial real estate-related transactions and general business matters with premier quality and highly responsive service
Practical Solutions. Premier Quality.
Our law firm concentrates in the areas of commercial leasing and property management, commercial acquisitions and dispositions, real estate development, finance, design/construction, and other commercial real estate-related transactions, and general business and estate matters. We represent, at reasonable rates, a wide variety of tenants, landlords, developers, businesses, trade associations and other not-for-profit organizations, and individuals in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia (and formerly in Pennsylvania ).