Lance Luckow, Esq.

Mr. Luckow devotes his practice to cooperative and condominium law, real estate litigation, including landlord- tenant litigation, and commercial litigation. His clients include coop and condo boards, real estate management firms, brokers, contractors, building owners, both commercial and residential tenants, and business organizations.

Mr. Luckow’s transactional practice is focused on commercial leases and in connection with his role as counsel to coop and condo boards, building owners and businesses. Real estate attorneys and their clients engage Mr. Luckow for due diligence and risk assessment in connection with the prospective purchase and development of investment property.

Mr. Luckow is a graduate of the University of Iowa and Brooklyn Law School and has studied international and commercial law at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing and the University of Hong Kong. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Luckow worked in marketing and distribution in the publishing industry and as a bookseller. An avid reader and student of poetry, he deeply values the persuasive power of the written word, deployed in the moving papers and briefs he submits to trial and appellate courts in support of his clients’ claims.

“First and foremost, a lawyer must be straight forward with clients.

I will not say a case is a slam dunk—especially when that is what a client wants to hear. My first task is to help clients identify non-legal solutions. It is essential that clients understand the uncertainty, expense and delay attendant to litigation. As an attorney and counsellor at law, the emphasis must sometimes be on “counsel” in its conventional sense: guiding clients through a deal, past a problem or through the strange terrain of city, state or federal courts.”

A native of the Midwest, Mr. Luckow believes in the work ethic and prairie populism practiced by the heroes of his youth—those who made it into history books, and even more so, those who did not. His pro bono and clinic volunteer work has kept the cynicism borne of what some might view as sparring over assets in check. “Every one of my clients’ cases is important, but helping working people with grave ‘real life’ concerns reminds me how important the work lawyers do can be.”

Mr. Luckow is certified as an arbitrator in the Small Claims Part of the Civil Court of the City of New York, a past member of the Cooperative and Condominium Law Committee of the New York City Bar and its Courts subcommittee, and a member of the Real Property and Business Law Sections of the New York State Bar Association. He is admitted in New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and before the Supreme Court of the United States.