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200 Ottawa NW Ste 1000
Grand Rapids,
Michigan
49503-2423
Phone: (616) 336-1042
Fax: (616) 458-6753
Real Property Law Advisory Board Member
Practice areas: Business Law, Real Property
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Leslee M. Lewis is a member of the firm and the managing partner of the firm's Grand Rapids office. She is also a member of the firm's governing board, the chair of its Nonprofit Task Force, and the past firmwide practice department manager of the Real Estate, Environmental, and Energy and Sustainability practice areas. Ms. Lewis has over 28 years of experience as counsel to major national clients in strategic real estate acquisition and disposition, leasing, development, finance, and construction projects and daily affairs. She is a nationally recognized expert on solar farms, wind farms, battery energy storage, anaerobic digesters, renewable energy, and green building and leasing projects. Ms. Lewis is a national presenter for organizations including the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Michigan (SBM), the American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education (ALI-CLE), and the U.S. Green Building Council; an author for LEXIS/NEXIS and a member of the national editorial board of ALI-CLE's "The Practical Real Estate Lawyer" journal; a founding member of Commercial Real Estate Women West Michigan; an elected fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the Counselors of Real Estate; and an officer and council member of the SBM's Real Property Law Section. As one of the top 1% most honored lawyers nationwide, Ms. Lewis was named the 2022 Lawyer of the Year by "The Best Lawyers in America" in real estate law and is one of only 3,000 eminent judges, professors, and lawyers nationwide elected to the American Law Institute. She has also been recognized by "The Best Lawyers in America" in the areas of real estate law and banking and finance law every year since 2013; as a Michigan Super Lawyer in real estate by Super Lawyers every year since 2011; as a Top Lawyer in banking and financial services and real estate by "Grand Rapids Magazine"; as a Recommended Lawyer in real estate by The Legal 500 United States; as one of America's Leading Lawyers by Chambers USA; as a Notable West Michigan Lawyer by "Crain's Grand Rapids Business"; and as a Woman in Law and Woman Worth Watching by "Diversity Journal."
Featured ICLE Contributions:
Solar Energy Agreements (Seminar)