Law 2024: JOHN ‘JACK’ LAVOIE

Joining Cooley in 2008, Lavoie leads the firm’s real estate practice group. His practice centers on real estate transactions, including buying, selling, developing and leasing office, industrial and retail properties. Lavoie represents landlords, tenants, lenders and borrowers in the leasing, financing and repositioning of commercial property in the Washington, D.C, area and the mid-Atlantic region. He’s been involved in data center leasing and development, as well as corporate headquarters projects.

Lavoie leads the Reston office of Cooley, which has more than 1,300 lawyers across 19 offices in the United States, Asia and Europe, and a total workforce of more than 3,000. With 57 attorneys in Virginia, Cooley is the state’s 11th largest law firm. For more than a decade, Lavoie worked at Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, a McLean-based firm serving construction, surety and bankruptcy clients. He also worked as a senior associate handling site identification and lease negotiation for global real estate advisory firm Staubach, now part of Jones Lang LaSalle. 

A graduate of the Catholic University of America and Georgetown University Law Center, Lavoie served on the transition team for then-Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe.