Tuesday, February 27, 2007, TENANT RIGHTS TO PURCHASE
TENANT RIGHTS TO PURCHASE
GUEST LECTURER: JULIE D. LAWTON
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2007 3:30 PM — 4:45 PM HOLY CROSS HALL, ROOM G-108
Julie D. Lawton is an adjunct professor and staff attorney in the Harrison Institute for Public Law, Georgetown University Law Center. She represents low-income tenant associations in purchasing, renovating and converting their multifamily housing into condominiums and cooperatives. She also supervises clinical law students who work on these housing cases and supervised law students teaching entrepreneurial skills to new and potential small business owners. The business topics included developing business plans, choice of business form, basic contract formation, licensing requirements, funding and accounting basics. Finally, she teaches in the Housing and Community Development Seminar. Ms. Lawton completed a Harrison Institute fellowship before starting her current position. Before coming to Georgetown, she was an associate with Morrison & Foerster LLP in the Financial Services group in Washington, D.C. where she advised large financial institutions on consumer credit transactions and provided pro bono representation to small businesses and community development organizations. Prior to her legal career, she worked in commercial banking for Bank of America.