Albert K. Lawler, Member

Practice Areas: Housing, Real Estate, Civil litigation

Albert Lawler is a member of Lawler Mahon & Rooney and specializes in

			Contracts
			Real Estate
			Employment Matters
			Business Organization and Dissolution
			Creditor’s Rights and Bankruptcy, and
			Commercial Litigation.

He also represents franchisers and franchisees in the formation of business entities.

In his early career, Lawler was an associate Counsel in the NY State Department of Housing and Community Renewal, serving as an Administrative Law Judge in Hundreds of cases, representing the State of New York in litigations involving State regulation of the housing industry, and acting as a legal advisor to the Department. Later, at Philips Nizer Benjamin Krim and Ballon, Lawler practiced initially in the Real Estate department, handling numerous Co-op conversions, commercial leases and transactions, and later in the Commercial Litigation Department, where his experience included large commercial litigations. Notable cases included Phelps Dodge vs. Occidental Petroleum Company, a multi-state environmental breach of contract case, where he supervised a team of associates in all aspects of discovery.

Lawler graduated from Fordham University and the New York University School of Law in 1977. He is admitted to the practice of law in the State Courts of New York and Illinois, and in the Federal District Courts in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and the Northern District of Illinois.