Elizabeth leads the firm’s Philadelphia-based real estate team and represents landlords, tenants, investors, borrowers, lenders, and developers on a broad range of real estate matters, including the sale, acquisition, financing, development, and leasing of commercial real estate. Clients rely on Elizabeth to close complex and strategically significant real estate transactions. She has deep experience handling acquisition and disposition of all classes of commercial real estate and has led both single-property and portfolio transactions.
She focuses a significant portion of her practice on commercial leasing and has nearly 20 years of experience with all types of leases on both the landlord and tenant side. Elizabeth advises clients on the full life cycle of a lease, from negotiation and drafting to restructuring and renewal. She often works with sophisticated corporate clients engaged in muti-site, multi-jurisdictional expansion.
Elizabeth was appointed vice chair of the Real Estate Practice in 2024 and helps lead a national team of dedicated real estate attorneys based in cities across the United States and Canada. She currently serves as the national assignment coordinator, responsible for assembling attorney teams tailored to each client and managing practice workflow.
She served as a founding co-chair of the Women’s Leadership Initiative of the Urban Land Institute–Philadelphia Council. Elizabeth also served on the school board for St. Mary of the Lakes School, a Catholic K-8 school in New Jersey, and continues to volunteer at St. Mary’s Church. She chaired the Cozen O'Connor’s Blood Drive Committee.
Elizabeth earned her undergraduate degree, with high honors, from Rutgers University School of Business–Camden and worked as a financial analyst for an international defense contractor. Elizabeth then earned her law degree, with high honors, from Rutgers University School of Law–Camden, where she was state constitutional law editor for the Rutgers Law Journal.