Nicole Lynn Kobrine practices throughout the D.C. metropolitan area and nationally in the areas of commercial real estate and complex business litigation. She has significant trial experience (jury and bench) and arbitration experience on many complex cases, including real estate and land use disputes, construction cases, partnership and joint venture actions, commercial brokerage disputes, trade secrets and non-compete litigation. She also has litigated numerous environmental and leasing disputes.
Ms. Kobrine uses out-of-the-box thinking to develop a creative and aggressive but flexible approach to achieve clients’ goals in the most efficient, effective manner. This approach provides clients with the opportunity to decide whether to settle a dispute or proceed with litigation. Ms. Kobrine is committed to all of her clients and brings both passion and real courtroom experience to each case.
Ms. Kobrine’s representative cases include the following:
- Successfully represented major downtown D.C. building owner committed to modernizing and redeveloping its building in litigation against several tenants determined to halt the redevelopment efforts, and advised other D.C. building owners facing similar tenant challenges prior to litigation being filed.
- Represented a large real estate developer that owns a landmark property in downtown D.C. in its land use dispute with a competing real estate developer that owns adjacent property.
- Obtained a $14 million judgment for a national real estate developer in construction arbitration in North Carolina against its general contractor.
- Represented a family member over the course of several years in trust and estate litigations over a $50 million estate.
- Represented a national real estate developer in construction litigation with a state agency over the redevelopment of several state buildings, successfully defending the client in over $11 million in claims and obtaining discovery sanctions award of $90,000 against the state.
- Spent several years representing waterfront land owners in a land use and environmental dispute involving the Critical Area regulations in the Chesapeake Bay region. This case ended up before the Maryland Court of Appeals with a successful result in the highest court in the state.
Ms. Kobrine is admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia, as well as before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States District Courts for the District of Maryland and the District of Columbia. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia.
Ms. Kobrine is a national committee member of Katten’s Women’s Leadership Forum, which is dedicated to the strategic retention and advancement of women. She has served on this committee since 2007.
Ms. Kobrine was a Division 1 scholar athlete while earning her B.A. from Stanford University (Class of 1992). She earned her J.D. in 1996 from The George Washington University Law School. During law school, Ms. Kobrine was a member of the National Law Center Moot Court Board and interned for the Honorable Judge Pauline Newman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.