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Jennifer Schulz joined Ravid Law Group as an Associate in 2011. Ms. Schulz represents various public and private companies including major developers and national tenants throughout the United States and Canada. Her practice includes negotiating and documenting various types of real estate transactions, including drafting and negotiating retail, office, and industrial leases on behalf of both landlords and tenants. Ms. Schulz also represents purchasers and sellers in purchase and sale transactions for real estate properties throughout the country.. Ms. Schulz is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Real Property Section, where she serves on the Commercial Development and Leasing Subsection Steering Committee, and is also a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers. Ms. Schulz received her J.D. from Loyola Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review and a member of the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society, Order of the Coif, and the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. While in law school, Ms. Schulz also served as a judicial extern for the Honorable R. Gary Klausner of the United States District Court, Central District of California. She earned a B.S. in Architecture at the University of Virginia in 2004.. In addition to the articles listed below, Ms. Schulz’s publications include: Arbitrating Arbitrability: How the U.S. Supreme Court Empowered the Arbitrator at the Expense of the Judge and the Average Joe, 44 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 1269 (2011).

Allan N. Lowy earned his B.A. degree with Departmental Honors from UCLA, his J.D. degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, and his certificate in mediation from Pepperdine Law School.  He was admitted to the practice of law in California in 1976, and in addition he is admitted to practice in front of the United States District Court for the Central District of California and the United States Supreme Court.. Mr. Lowy’s practice is focused on the broad array of real estate transactions, with a special emphasis on real estate development and complex real estate financing vehicles, including tax exempt bonds and low-income housing tax credits.  Additional practice areas encompass land use and entitlements, business formations and joint venture agreements, purchase and sale, commercial leasing, construction contracts, economic development and re-development, tax and business consulting, wills and trusts and partnership disputes.  Mr. Lowy has extensive experience appearing before both administrative bodies and courts of law, and his clients include high net-worth individuals, real estate developers and investors, non-profit corporations, private schools, health care providers and private lenders. Typical transactions range in size from $10,000,000 to $100,000,000, with completed transactions in over 20 states.  Mr. Lowy is also a real estate broker and licensed general contractor, and serves as a neutral mediator/arbitrator in real estate and construction matters.. Mr. Lowy is a member of the Real Estate Section of the California State Bar, the Affordable Housing and Community Development Section of the American Bar Association, and the Urban Land Institute, and he is the former President of the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Building Industry Association (NAHB).  He has also lectured on development issues for the Continuing Education of the Bar and at UCLA, USC, UCI, CSU-Northridge and  CSU-San Jose.