Hakmat Manaa

Hakmat is a Real Estate associate in Taft’s Cleveland office. She has experience assisting clients in all matters relating to real estate acquisitions and disposal, leasing, land use and zoning, and financing matters. Hakmat is a member of the firm’s Cleveland Corporate Transparency Act Subcommittee.

Hakmat earned her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She gained valuable experience as a summer associate with Taft for two years. While in law school, Hakmat worked as a Certified Legal Intern at the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic’s Community Development Clinic where she assisted with various transactional matters for local non-profit organizations. She also served as an Honors Fellow for Legal Writing and Constitutional Law, assisting law students develop essential academic skills.

Hakmat was a Senior Editor for the Case Western Reserve Law Review and received the Transactional Writing Award for Transactional Legal Writing and the Federal Bar Association Award for Constitutional Law I. She also received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Criminal Law, Constitutional Law I, and Article 2 Sales.