Roger D. Luchs

Roger Luchs has nearly 30 years of experience representing clients in the negotiation of real estate contracts and with respect to other sorts of business-related transactions, and has represented clients in both simple and complex litigation arising in connection with real estate sales contracts, commercial and residential leases, building construction, condominium governance and disputes with unit owners, real estate title issues, home improvements contracts, fraudulent insurance practices, and claims filed by or with District of Columbia agencies. These claims have included charges of unlawful discrimination, violations of the District of Columbia’s rent control statute or other rental housing laws, and citations by the District for civil infractions in connection with clients' ownership or operation of office and apartment buildings. Mr. Luchs has also handled numerous appeals in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the Maryland Court of Appeals and the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, and has filed briefs in both the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mr. Luchs has also taken part in arbitration proceedings, and mediation, involving real estate disputes, discrimination claims, and disputes arising under the District of Columbia’s rent control laws.

Representative Matters

• Bourbeau v. The Jonathan Woodner Co., 549 F.Supp.2d 78 (D.D.C. 2008);
• Akassy v. William Penn Apartments, L.P., 891 A.2d 291 (D.C. 2006);
• Zappone v. Liberty Life Ins. Co., 706 A.2d 1060 (Md. 1998);
• Goldsmith v. William S. Bergman Assocs., Inc., 708 A.2d 640 (D.C. 1998);
• Marlyn Condo., Inc. v. McDowell, 576 A.2d 1346 (D.C. 1990);
• James Parreco & Son v. D.C. Rental Hous. Comm’n, 567 A.2d 43 (D.C. 1989); and
• Nat’l Paralegal Inst., Inc. v. Bernstein, 498 A.2d 560 (D.C. 1985).

Noteworthy

Mr. Luchs served first as a member of, and later as chairman of, the Montgomery County, Maryland Commission on Landlord-Tenant Affairs, during the years 1997-2005.
In 2010, he received a 2010 Pillar Leadership Award for the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington (AOBA), for his assistance to AOBA in lobbying the D.C. City Council to modify a proposed revision of the District’s lis pendens statute.
Mr. Luchs also co-authored a law reivew article on a specific piece of tax legislation he worked on while serving as a legislative aide to Rep. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa). The article, entitled “And This Little Piggy Went to Congress,” was published in the Winter, 1979 edition of the Southwestern Law Journal, published by the Southern Methodist University. Mr. Luchs has also contributed several articles on topical legal and political issues to the online publication American Thinker, including a piece on how today's courts stifle the ability of litigants to obtain prompt and cost-effective disposition of their disputes.