Day in the life of: Janice Mac Avoy

From the May issue: Janice Mac Avoy is a partner and head of the real estate litigation group at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Her client roster includes major real estate investors such as Blackstone Group, Kushner Companies and RFR Realty. She recently represented Normandy Real Estate Partners in its $100 million purchase of a majority stake in 175 Pearl Street, an office conversion in the Dumbo Heights complex in Brooklyn. While Mac Avoy, 54, has negotiated more than $10 billion in transactions in her roughly 30-year legal career, she specializes in family and joint venture disputes. One current case involves the three children of a real estate owner looking to divide assets without having to sue each other or incur significant taxes. Mac Avoy grew up in Seattle and St. Louis. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1985 and her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1988. She now lives in Bronxville, New York, with her husband and their 18-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son.