Ms. Jewett joined Cohen Rabinowitz in 2025, bringing over 25 years of specialized experience in commercial real estate law. She began her career at Paul Hastings in Orange County, California, before returning to San Antonio where she practiced at Akin Gump and Matthews and Branscomb. Prior to joining the firm, she was a founding partner of a boutique practice dedicated to real estate and oil and gas law alongside Arthur Uhl and Joseph Fitzsimons.
Professional Qualifications:
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California, J.D., cum laude and Order of the Coif, 1997
Rice University, Houston, Texas, B.A., cum laude, 1991
Admitted to practice in California in 1997 (license currently inactive) and Texas in 2000
Board Certified, Commercial Real Estate Law – Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 2006 (a distinction held by less than 1% of Texas attorneys)
Member: Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas; Real Estate
Section of the San Antonio Bar Association
Representative transactions and clients:
Investors acquiring multiple tracts for development of a 180-acre rail-served industrial park.
Landlords and tenants leasing office and retail space.
National banks in the acquisition and ground leasing of raw and improved land for branch banks, the sale of excess land, and termination and renegotiation of leases.
Developers and property owners encumbering land with covenants, conditions, use restrictions, easements, and development agreements, and negotiating subsequent amendments to those agreements.
Sellers and buyers in the conveyance of ranches in South and Central Texas.
Developers and landowners in connection with the purchase and sale of land for single-family subdivisions, including the acquisition of utility and access easements and negotiation of agreements to provide sewer, water, electric, and other utilities to the development.
