Shapiro Lifschitz & Schram is pleased to announce the promotion of Marni Lefkowitz Ahram to partner of the firm, effective January 1. Ahram is a member of the firm’s real estate and business groups, where she focuses primarily on real estate transactions, retail and office leasing, and business and commercial transactions for small to mid-sized companies.

“We are thrilled to kick off the new year by highlighting and promoting strong talent, like Marni, to partnership,” said Steve Schram, managing principal and co-president of Shapiro Lifschitz & Schram. “Marni has demonstrated dedication and leadership to her practice and clients, and the firm as a whole, and we have nothing but confidence for the years ahead as she engages in her new role as a partner of the firm.”

Ahram’s experience includes real estate and asset acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, subleasing and financing transactions, development negotiations, management and service agreements, structuring and interpreting mixed-use and condominium association covenants and easement agreements, business and entity formation including capital and governance structuring, and structuring and negotiation of operating contracts.

Ahram is admitted and active in the District of Columbia and Maryland and admitted and inactive in New York and Oklahoma. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Duke University, her Master of Business Administration from Kellogg School of Management and her Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law.

  Shapiro Lifschitz & Schram is a Washington, D.C.-based law firm delivering solutions for clients in the areas of business, construction, real estate and commercial litigation. The firm has a proven track record of success representing clients in sophisticated deals and big-ticket, complex litigation at both the trial and appellate levels. With state-of-the-art document management and electronic discovery techniques, sophisticated graphics capabilities and seasoned lawyers, Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram creates client-centered solutions to close deals and win cases. For more information, please visit the firm’s website, https://www.slslaw.com.