Jennifer  Jones

Biography

Overview

Jennifer Jones is a real estate attorney with over two decades of experience in sophisticated real estate transactions. Her practice is focused on domestic and international real estate matters including leasing, licensing, acquisitions and dispositions, development, management, and operations for retail, office, industrial, multifamily, and mixed-use properties.

Jen is known for her common-sense solutions to complex real estate issues. She is an innovative problem-solver who stays focused on clients’ strategic goals to get complicated deals done.

She represents developers, private equity investment firms, joint venture partners, property management companies, insurance companies, REITs, and co-working companies. Jen’s experience encompasses a wide range of real estate transactional matters, including big-box and in-line retail leases; multi-floor and full-building office leases; industrial leases; purchase and sale agreements; commission agreements; listing agreements; subordination, non-disturbance, and attornment agreements; estoppel certificates; and property management agreements.

Prior to joining Goulston & Storrs, she was a shareholder at an Am Law 100 law firm. Before becoming a lawyer, Jen was a commercial real estate property manager and consultant. Jen’s hands-on, business-side experience informs her work as a strategic legal advisor.

Affiliations

  • Advisory Council Member, Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Inc.
  • Member, International Council of Shopping Centers
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, NAIOP

Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • Illinois

Education

  • Loyola University Chicago, School of Law  (J.D.)
    • Public Interest Law, reporter and editor
  • George Washington University  (M.A.)
  • Michigan State University  (B.A., cum laude)