• The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.), Real Estate Law, 2021-2025
• The Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers, Commercial Real Estate Transactions, 2024
• H Texas Top Lawyers of Houston, 2020
• Top 50 Women Lawyers of Houston, Texas Diversity Council, 2017
• Houston’s Top Lawyers, H Texas magazine, 2010

• Panelist, “Managing Partners Panel,” Texas Minority Counsel Program (October 2024)
• Panelist, University of Houston Law Center (February 2024)
• Featured, “#109: Priya Coffey – Real Estate Lawyer,” How I Lawyer Podcast with Jonah Perlin (April 2023)
• Featured, “Be the Change You Want to See: Perspectives of Women Leaders in the Law,” The Houston Lawyer (March 2022)
• Featured, “Jackson Walker’s Coffey On COVID-19 And Boosting Diversity,” Law360 (January 2021)
• Featured, “HBJ’s 2015 Law Guide: Largest Real Estate Firms,” Houston Business Journal (February 2014)
• Author, “There is More Than One Way to Skin a Copycat: The Emergence of Trade Dress to Combat Design Piracy of Fashion Works,” Texas Tech Law Review (1996)

• Central Houston Inc., Board of Directors
• Greater Houston Partnership, Executive Women’s Partnership
• Recipe for Success, Board of Directors
• Covenant House, Executive Sleep Out Committee
• South Asian Bar Association of Houston
• The Junior League of Houston, Inc., Sustaining Member
• The University of Chicago’s Houston Regional Council

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October 31, 2024
Attorney News

Priya Coffey Elected to Central Houston Inc. Board of Directors

Jackson Walker is proud to announce that Priya Coffey, the managing partner of our Houston office, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Central Houston, Inc.

October 4, 2024
Speaking Engagements

Priya Coffey and Jennifer Freel to Present at 32nd Annual Texas Minority Counsel Program

Jackson Walker partners S. Priya Coffey and Jennifer S. Freel will be featured panelists at the 32^nd Annual Texas Minority Counsel Program (TMCP), presented by the State Bar of Texas from October 23-25, 2024, at the AT&T Hotel & Conference Center in Austin, Texas.

August 23, 2024
Newsletters

JW Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter – August 2024

View Jackson Walker’s August 2024 Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter, Perspectives.

August 15, 2024
Attorney News

‘The Best Lawyers in America’ Features 306 Jackson Walker Attorneys in 2025 Edition, Including 9 “Lawyers of the Year” and 75 “Ones to Watch”

The Best Lawyers in America has recognized 306 Jackson Walker attorneys across 81 specialty practice areas in its 2025 edition, including 9 Lawyers of the Year and 75 Ones to Watch. In this year’s guide, Jackson Walker saw the largest number of attorneys in the areas of Commercial Litigation (75 attorneys) and Real Estate Law (55 attorneys) and the addition of 27 attorneys as Best Lawyers.

August 12, 2024
Attorney News

Six Jackson Walker Attorneys Named to Lawdragon’s List of 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers

Jackson Walker is pleased to announce the selection of Priya Coffey, William Dahlstrom, L Suzan Kedron, C. Bradford Lowry, Travis McNellie, and Alfred Meyerson to the first-ever “Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers” list.

February 20, 2024
Speaking Engagements

Priya Coffey Joins Panel Discussion at University of Houston Law Center

On Wednesday, February 21, S. Priya Coffey, the Managing Partner of Jackson Walker Houston, will participate in a panel discussion at the University of Houston Law Center alongside fellow panelists Natasha Alexander from the United States Attorneys’ Office and Lakshmi Achari from Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP.

December 4, 2023
Newsletters

JW Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter – December 2023

View Jackson Walker’s December 2023 Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter, Perspectives.

August 24, 2023
Newsletters

JW Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter – August 2023

View Jackson Walker’s August 2023 Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter, Perspectives.

August 17, 2023
Attorney News

‘The Best Lawyers in America’ Honors 287 Jackson Walker Attorneys in 2024 Edition, Including 12 “Lawyers of the Year” and 80 “Ones to Watch”

The Best Lawyers in America has recognized 287 Jackson Walker attorneys across 5 offices and 82 specialty practice areas in its 2024 edition, including 12 Lawyers of the Year and 80 Ones to Watch. In this year’s guide, Jackson Walker saw the largest number of attorneys in the areas of Commercial Litigation (66 attorneys) and Real Estate Law (60 attorneys) and the addition of 35 attorneys as Best Lawyers.

April 28, 2023
Mentions

Priya Coffey Featured in ‘How I Lawyer Podcast’

Houston Managing Partner Priya Coffey was featured on the How I Lawyer Podcast with Jonah Perlin as she discussed her decision to become a lawyer, how a clerkship changed her professional life even as a transactional lawyer, the unique (and not so unique) parts of real estate law, some of the surprising parts of her career, the super power of taking on opportunities to learn new things, where the practice of real estate law is going in the years to come, and more.

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• Represented landlords in downtown office buildings containing nearly 5,000,000 square feet of office space, for over 15 consecutive years
• Represented a Houston developer in leasing a mixed-use project on Lower Westheimer, which includes 100,000 square feet of office space and more than 50,000 square feet of retail.
• Represented tenants under 100,000 square foot leases in office buildings in the Energy Corridor area of Houston, Texas
• Represented one of the nation’s largest beer distributors in land acquisition and development of beer distributorship center in Pasadena, Texas
• Represented North America’s largest liquor distributor in acquisition of industrial facility in Katy, Texas