Judi’s expertise is in real estate transactions, and includes the development, purchase, sale, and exchange of commercial, industrial, retail and multifamily projects; acquisition of stable and troubled assets; creation, negotiation and restructuring of office, retail and industrial leases; modification and workout of troubled loans; and development of “green” and sustainable projects. Judi’s clients include individuals and entities working as developers, brokers, designers, builders, acquisition and management entities, commercial landlords and tenants, and in conservation and the development of sustainable communities. Her mission is to advance their goals by understanding all sides of the deal, and then to achieve her clients’ objectives while creating lasting relationships open to future transactions.
Judi is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she teaches real estate transactions, real estate securities and Contemplative Lawyering, and a member of the Lawyers Group for the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, where she is a student of Zoketsu Norman Fischer and teaches at the Group’s annual Retreat for Law Professionals.
Judi is a director of the Daniel Weinstein Youth Foundation. Her community work has also included having been a trustee for Prospect Sierra School in El Cerrito, California; a director of the Center for Youth Development Through Law; a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Community Legal Education; and a co-founder and teacher for the Juvenile Detention Street Law Program.
Judi received her J.D. from Emory University in 1984 where she was a national award winner for the International Law Moot Court Team and her B.S. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University in 1981. She is a fourth-generation San Franciscan and attended Washington High School (1977), Marin Country Day School (1974), and Burke’s (1971).
