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Duane Morris' Las Vegas Office Adds Construction and Real Estate Law Partner Eleissa Lavelle
January 4, 2010
LAS VEGAS, January 4, 2010—Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that Eleissa C. Lavelle has joined the firm in its Las Vegas office as a partner in its Construction and Trial Practice Groups. Lavelle's arrival further strengthens Duane Morris' depth of experience in construction and real estate matters. Duane Morris' Construction Group is nationally ranked by Chambers USA among the leaders in the industry, with construction attorneys across the United States and around the world. Lavelle joins the firm from Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP.
Lavelle represents owners, developers, financial institutions, contractors and subcontractors in a broad range of commercial construction; local, state and federal government contract matters and real estate matters. She represents clients in litigation disputes involving large commercial projects, licensing matters and contract drafting, and also with respect to issues arising during the course of construction. Lavelle also handles arbitration and mediation of real estate, construction and other commercial disputes, and has experience helping clients create and develop common-interest communities.
Previously, Lavelle served as the State Bar of Nevada's first bar counsel, as a deputy attorney general for the Nevada Department of Transportation and as a law clerk for the Hon. John F. Mendoza of the Eighth Judicial District Court of Clark County, Nevada. She was among the first settlement judges selected by the Nevada Supreme Court as part of its alternative dispute resolution (ADR) program.
Lavelle recently presented at a seminar for the State Bar of Nevada on legislation affecting common-interest communities. She is a member of the State Bar of Nevada as well as the Clark County and Utah State bar associations. Lavelle earned her J.D. from the University of Utah in 1976, where she was a moot court finalist. She earned her B.A. from the University of Utah, magna cum laude, in 1973. She is an LL.M. candidate at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law, and is writing her LL.M. thesis on dispute resolution relating to commercial construction.
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