Jean focuses her practice on construction law (both public and private), real estate law, insurance coverage and commercial litigation.
She has litigated more than 150 disputes in various U.S. District Courts, State Courts, and arbitration forums throughout the United States. She has extensive motion practice experience in both litigation and arbitration proceedings, successfully prosecuting and defending various substantive and procedural motions to narrow the disputed issues resulting in favorable settlements and judgments on behalf of her corporate clients. Jean’s successful motion practice has resulted in several reported and unreported opinions that clarify the law and bring greater certainty for decision-making by her corporate clients. She also has extensive appellate practice, briefing and arguing to affirm and reverse decisions before Ohio state and federal appellate, district and supreme courts.
Representative Experience
- Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of an affordable housing property in Texas, which involved collapsing a ground lease structure to sell fee title to the property, negotiating equity contributions to fund closing contributions by the partnership of the property-owning partnership and the defeasance and later redemption of bond financing.
- Serve as Project counsel for an American medical devices and health care company designing and constructing a $70 million dollar West Coast Center for Gene and Cell Therapy Research and Development.
- Assisted a client in identifying a Project Delivery System and preparing agreements for conversion of historical buildings into new commercial properties.
- Represented a client in litigation to enjoin the use of copyrighted architecture drawings and recover lost business profits.
- Represented contractors and subcontractors in disputes with the owner of a major construction project.
- Advised sureties on performance obligations following an owner's default termination of a contractor and negotiated takeover agreements when surety was obligated to complete the project.
- Represent owners in disputes with contractors and subcontractors for recovery of completion costs following a default of the contractor.
- Negotiated and drafted documents to amend easements following an encroachment during site preparation for new hotel development.