Tenant Tales and Reseller Realities: Inside the FCRA Arena With Eric Ellman — FCRA Focus Podcast
Eviction Essentials and Lease Management
REFRESH Real Estate Leasing Tips for Nonprofits
Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Tenant Is Doing the Work
Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Landlord Is Doing the Work
Nonprofit Tenants and Lease Agreements: Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid
SDNY Chooses “Time Approach” to Calculating Lease Termination Damages Collectible Against a Bankrupt Estate
When Can Oregon Landlords Terminate Residential Tenancy Without Cause?
Practicing on the Front Lines of Landlord-Tenant Regulations and Housing Law
How Commercial Property Owners Can Collect Unpaid Rent from Commercial Tenants
It’s Lit? Insight into the Increase in Cannabis-Related Litigation in California
Landlord and Tenant Lease Risk Reduction for the Cannabis Industry
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 319: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Duties of Landlords, Owners, and Possessors of Land
Law Brief®: Robert Wolf, Alexander Tiktin and Richard Schoenstein Discuss the Continuing Foreclosure/Eviction Moratorium
[Webinar] Cannabis Real Estate Considerations
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 149: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Duties of Landlords, Owners, and Possessors of Land
Troutman Pepper COVID-19 Legal Issues Podcast Series: COVID-19 Commercial Leasing Trends (Part Two)
Commercial/Retail Therapy: Assessing the Pandemic’s Impact on Real Estate
Law Brief®: Debra Bodian Bernstein and Richard Schoenstein Discuss Commercial Lease Defaults During COVID-19
COVID-19 in the Workplace - PPP Update, COVID Plans from the Biden Transition Team, Higher Education Relief Package Provision, COVID WARN Act Developments
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In commercial leases, "operating expenses" (often referred to as OPEX, CAM or Common Area Maintenance) generally cover the costs associated with the daily operation, maintenance, and repair of the property. In addition to...more
Learn How SB 1103 Could Impact You - Although the parties to commercial leases in California have historically had the freedom to bargain over nearly all terms of a lease with little statutory restraint, a law that came into...more
Litigation attorney Anne Beehler and real estate attorney Andrew Starrels co-authored a Law360 article examining the Commercial Tenant Protection Act (S.B. 1103) in California that grants new rights to qualified commercial...more
When it comes to real estate, almost every purchaser acquires an owner's title insurance policy. But what about tenants? Not every tenant opts for a leasehold title insurance policy, and deciding whether to pursue one...more
Senate Bill 1103, which took effect on January 1, 2025, amends sections 827, 1632, 1946.1, and 1950.9 of the California Civil Code. This legislation grants new lease protections to “qualified commercial tenants.”...more
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In 2024, the market is coming to terms with the reality that brick-and-mortar retail will likely not be what it was pre-pandemic. However, where uncertainty and fear regarding the future of retail was prevalent just a couple...more
As dark clouds continue to gather on the horizon, and economic activity begins to falter, real estate can quickly slip from being an asset to being a significant financial burden....more
Flexibility provides the greatest value in laboratory space design for both owners and users of life sciences real estate. Science and technology are evolving at such a rapid pace that it is difficult to predict future needs....more
Perhaps nowhere do technology and real estate intersect more deeply than in the life sciences industry, where sophisticated technologies are integral to tenants’ operations. The life sciences industry, which was experiencing...more
A recent ruling by the Kings County Commercial Division offers a glimpse into how courts in New York may resolve COVID-19-related disputes regarding leases and real property, as well as how courts may handle situations in...more
On March 27, 2020, Congress approved the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) to provide financial assistance to individuals and businesses, which in aggregate greatly exceeds the financial package...more
On March 23, 2020, New York Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris introduced proposed legislation which, if adopted, would expand upon the unprecedented Executive Order issued by Governor Andrew Cuomo on March 20, 2020,...more
Recently, I had the opportunity to moderate panels on cannabis and commercial real estate at programs held in Los Angeles and Chicago. I won’t say it was the best of times or the worst of times, but I will say “it was the...more
There continues to be a lot of discussion throughout the commercial real estate industry about competition from online retailers and the holes created by failing and downsizing businesses that have traditionally focused on...more
In an eminent domain proceeding, tenants of property subject to condemnation have constitutional rights to just compensation. However, those rights can be assigned to the landlord through a lease agreement. A recent...more
For the past few years, commercial landlords have concluded that increased office amenities attract commercial tenants because those tenant companies, in turn, need to appeal to a newer, younger millennial generation that...more