• Celeste B. Williams works on real estate matters, assisting in the representation of clients in purchases and sales, joint ventures, construction financing and commercial leases. Celeste’s work involves drafting and reviewing transactional documents and coordinating closing and post-closing activities.

    Celeste also commits significant time to pro bono service, working on diverse matters involving real estate, asylum and family law issues. Most recently, she assisted in a successful asylum claim, interviewing clients and witnesses and drafting court filings and other key documents. She has also assisted nonprofits in the preparation of AIA contract forms for construction transactions.

    Celeste returns to Kramer Levin after participating in the firm’s summer associate program, where she worked across the Real Estate, Tax and Corporate practices. While in law school, Celeste interned at the Federal Tax Clinic at Lincoln Square Legal Services Inc. and served as a research assistant, focusing on administrative and education law matters.

    Credentials

    Education

    • J.D., cum laude, Fordham University School of Law, 2023
      • Ruth Whitehead Whaley Scholar
      • Notes and Articles Editor, International Law Journal
      • Staff, Fordham International Law Journal
      • Advisor, Board of Student Advisors
    • B.A., magna cum laude, Strategic Communications, University of Missouri School of Journalism, 2020

    Bar Admissions

    • New York, 2024

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