Wake Up Call: Fried Frank’s Mechanic Top NYC Real Estate ‘Fixer’

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• Longtime Fried Frank real estate practice chair Jon Mechanic has become Manhattan’s “uber” real estate attorney, helping build a team from a handful of lawyers to more than 100. Mechanic “now ranks among the most influential figures of the property world you’ve probably never heard of, a fixer who has made himself into an institution.” (Financial Times)
• The Illinois comptroller has fired one of its lawyers over antisemitic remarks the attorney allegedly made on Instagram. A spokesperson ...