Attorney Profile
Lisa Harris Jones is the Founding and Managing Member of Harris Jones & Malone, LLC (HJM), a Maryland-based law firm that focuses on state and local lobbying, government relations, and procurement. Ms. Harris Jones’ practice includes representation of small and large business enterprises, both publicly and privately held, municipalities and related quasi-public agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Ms. Harris Jones represents clients on a wide range of business interests’ concerns including, but not limited to, public and private real estate development, land use zoning and financing, construction, energy, retail sales, education, transportation, public safety, healthcare, gaming, telecommunications, intellectual technology, procurement, corporate, taxation, labor and employment, insurance, public interest, election, and environmental law. Prior to founding HJM in 2000, Ms. Harris Jones was associated with other Maryland law firms where she practiced corporate securities, mergers and acquisitions, government relations, real estate financing, and land use law.
Lisa Harris Jones
Founding Member/Attorney at Law
Lisa Harris Jones is the Founding and Managing Member of Harris Jones & Malone, LLC (HJM), a Maryland-based law firm that focuses on state and local lobbying, government relations, and procurement. Ms. Harris Jones’ practice includes representation of small and large business enterprises, both publicly and privately held, municipalities and related quasi-public agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Due to Ms. Harris Jones’ successful performance history and powerful leadership at HJM, its clients have enabled her to become the first woman and the first person of color to top the earnings list for registered lobbyists in Maryland.
Harris Jones is the Founding and Managing Member of Harris Jones & Malone, LLC (2000-present), a Maryland-based law firm that focuses on state and local lobbying, government relations, and procurement. Prior to founding HJM in 2000, Ms. Harris Jones was associated with other Maryland law firms where she practiced corporate securities, mergers and acquisitions, government relations, real estate financing, and land use law.
Ms. Harris Jones currently serves on the board of Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ: DHC), a real estate investment trust that has more than $7.1 billion in senior living, life science, and medical office building assets nationwide and Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (NASDAQ: ILPT), a real estate investment trust with more than $5.6 billion of industrial and logistics properties nationwide.
Lisa Harris Jones earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh and holds a Juris Doctor from the American University Washington College of Law.
Due to Ms. Harris Jones’ successful performance history and powerful leadership at HJM, its clients have enabled her to become the first woman and the first person of color to top the earnings list for registered lobbyists in Maryland. She has received several honorable recognitions for her work as an attorney/lobbyist. For example, in 2025 Ms. Harris Jones was honored to receive the “Legends Award” from the Monumental City Bar Association, Baltimore City’s oldest and largest specialty bar with members that have made significant contributions to the legal community in the City and throughout the state of Maryland. She was listed on The Daily Record’s “Power 40 in Government & Lobbying” for 2023 and 2022 and “Power 100” in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021.
Past and present memberships: Member, Board of Directors to Everyman Theatre; Member, Board of Trustees to the Baltimore Museum of Art; Member, Board of Directors to The Family Tree; Member, Board of Trustees to The Odyssey School; Member, Mayor’s Advisory Council on Minority and Women-Owned Business; Co-Chair, 2012 Journey Home Benefit Committee to raise funds for Baltimore City’s 10-year plan to end homelessness; Commissioner, Baltimore City Wage Commission; Member, City of Baltimore MBE/WBE Certification Appeals Board; Secretary, The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Maryland Affiliate; President, Druid Heights Community Development Corporation, Inc.; Board Member, Center for Fathers, Families and Workforce Development; Co-Chair, College Bound Mid – Summer Fest; Member, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter; Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; Board Member, Hampden Family Center; Board Member, First Tee of Baltimore, Inc.; and Member, Maryland Coalition of Women for Responsive Government, Inc. 21st Century Woman II.
Member, Maryland State Bar Association
Member, Maryland Government Relations Association
Lifetime Member, Monumental City Bar Association