Nancy Ann. Connery is a partner at Schoeman Updike Kaufman & Gerber LLP in New York City, which is one of the largest women-owned law firms in the country.  Her area of concentration is real estate transactions, with an emphasis on commercial leasing.  She is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, former chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Committees on Real Property Law and Condominium and Cooperative Law, a member of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Section of the New York State Bar Association; and the former Chair of the Assignment and Subletting Committee of the Leasing Group of the American Bar Association.  She has been involved in the drafting of a number of Bar Association forms, in some instances as primary drafter, including the New York City Bar Association’s forms of ground lease, sublease, and commercial sales contract; and the New York State Bar Association Real Property Section’s form of Owner’s Rider to the AIA Form of Construction Agreement A107-2007.  She has been regularly included on the New York “Super Lawyers” list.  Ms. Connery has a B.A. degree from Douglass College, an M.S. degree from UCLA, and a J.D. degree from Rutgers School of Law.  She also lived in Brazil for a year.