Levenson, Brian

Anika Singh Lemar is an associate in the firm's Real Estate, Environmental and Energy Department. She is involved in all areas of Wiggin and Dana's real estate practice, including commercial real estate and land use matters.

Anika has taught land use and urban redevelopment at Yale University and the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment at Pratt Institute. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Next American City, a national urban affairs quarterly headquartered in Philadelphia, and a mayoral appointee to the City of New Haven's Municipal Solid Waste and Recycling Authority. An active member of the Urban Land Institute, she has organized ULI events specifically targeted to real estate professionals in Connecticut. Since 2008, Anika has been a member of Friends of New Haven Legal Assistance.

Before joining Wiggin and Dana, Anika was a Skadden Fellow and Staff Attorney at the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center in New York. Anika's work at the Urban Justice Center was featured in the New York Daily News, USA Today, and the New York Law Journal. From 2004 to 2005, she served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Janet C. Hall of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Anika received her B.A., cum laude, in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University and received her J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law where she served as Senior Articles Editor of the Review of Law and Social Change.