Lexi Purich Howard

Lexi Howard’s practice includes commercial real estate, including purchase and sale transactions, title insurance and escrow closing and settlement, easements, conservation easements and development mitigation, and more. Prior to joining Murphy Austin, Lexi worked as a public policy advocate, representing real estate interests in matters related to title insurance, escrow, mortgage lending and foreclosure, affordable housing, restrictive covenants, PACE financing, tax-deferred exchanges, real property assessment and taxation, transfer disclosures, and notarial acts, including statutory, regulatory, and licensing concerns; and representing the primary statewide association for judicial officers, and other trade association and business issues. From 1985 through 2010, Lexi worked for a national title insurance and financial services firm, handling commercial and industrial financing and sale transactions, multi-parcel land trust and conservation easement transactions, and residential and personal property transfers throughout California, as well as branch operations management and underwriting.

Lexi recently authored California Swings for the Fences to Strike Racially Restrictive Covenants from the Public Record, published by the California Lawyers Association’s Real Property Law Section. Lexi serves on the Board of Directors for the Sacramento County Bar Association and for SacLegal, Sacramento’s LGBTQ+ Bar Association, on the Diversity Board for the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, and on the Advisory Committee for the Law and Public Policy Program at C.K. McClatchy Senior High School. Lexi is a mentor to high school and law school students, as well as to post-grads and other lawyers. Lexi is a member of the 2022 cohort of Leadership California’s Current Issues and Trends program.

Lexi earned a J.D. from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, and a B.S. in Business Management from California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California.