KJK Closes $217.6 Million in Financing for Erieview Tower Residential and Hotel Phases CLEVELAND, OHIO – September 4, 2026 – KJK congratulates ErieView Development on the closing of approximately $217.6 million in financing for the residential and hotel components of...
OVERVIEW & EXPERIENCE
Holly Perzynski is a research and writing associate at KJK, where she supports attorneys across the firm with legal research, drafting and strategic analysis on client matters in a range of practice areas.
Holly joined KJK from Shaker Heights Municipal Court, where she served as a law clerk and wrote more than 100 magistrate’s decisions, orders and legal memoranda involving landlord-tenant disputes, breach of contract, subrogation, conflict of laws and default judgments. As a certified legal intern in the Health Law Clinic at Case Western Reserve University’s Milton and Charlotte Kramer Law Clinic, she handled client intake and drafted memoranda, briefs, wills, and powers of attorney for clients contesting Social Security and Medicaid determinations.
During law school, Holly served as registrar and then deputy executive director of the Yemen Accountability Project and interned with the Global Accountability Network, researching international humanitarian and human rights law. She also volunteered with the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland’s Right to Counsel Program, screening tenants facing eviction for program eligibility.
Holly earned her Juris Doctor from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, cum laude, and her bachelor’s degree in political science, summa cum laude, from Kent State University.
Representative Experience
AWARDS
- CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Torts
- CALI Excellence for the Future Award in International Law
- Pro Bono Certificate of Achievement granted by the Ohio Access to Justice Foundation and the Supreme Court of Ohio
- Phi Beta Kappa, Kent State University
BAR / COURT ADMISSIONS
PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC INVOLVEMENT
- The Middle East Accountability Project (formerly the Yemen Accountability Project), 2021 – 2026
- Deputy Executive Director
- Registrar
MEDIA MENTIONS
PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
• Law Over Water: Piracy and the Yemen Civil War, Yemen Accountability Project, 2026 (Deputy Executive Director)
• Torture and the Yemen Civil War, Yemen Accountability Project, 2025 (associate editor)
• Gender-Based Violence and the Yemen Civil War, Yemen Accountability Project, 2024 (research assistance)
PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION
- Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D., 2026, cum laude
- Kent State University, B.A. political science, 2023, summa cum laude