Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 512: Listen and Learn -- Landlord/Tenant Law (Part 2) - Assignments and Subletting
REFRESH Real Estate Leasing Tips for Nonprofits
Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Landlord Is Doing the Work
Real Estate Leasing Tips for Nonprofits
SDNY Chooses “Time Approach” to Calculating Lease Termination Damages Collectible Against a Bankrupt Estate
Effective Lease Negotiations for Healthcare Practices
ASC 842: Private Companies On The Clock After Delay
Lease Negotiations – Interview with Jeff Moerdler, Member, Mintz Levin
Taking it Seriously: Unusual Lease Violations in Virginia
On June 27, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court issued a pivotal decision in Cactus Water Services, LLC v. COG Operating, LLC, holding that under the language of the granting clause found in the standard oil and gas lease, produced...more
With the summer wave of state legislative adjournments ending, residential property managers are confronting a new landscape of regulatory obligations. Several states and municipalities have enacted or finalized laws and...more
Texas has enacted a new statutory framework governing the decommissioning of battery energy storage systems (BESS) not owned by an electric utility. On May 29, 2025, Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 3809 (H.B. 3809)...more
While there have been previous efforts to reduce the federal government’s real estate footprint, the scope and speed with which the Trump administration proposes to reduce that footprint is unprecedented....more
Rent control laws continue to evolve in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties. The rent control law enacted last year in Montgomery County will become effective once regulations are adopted. Our recent Alert discussed these...more
It seems like year-after-year, attempts are made to reform or repeal California’s rent control regulations, namely the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act (Civ. Code §§ 1954.50 et seq.) (Costa-Hawkins Act). 2024 has proven to be...more
In the U.S., wind and solar project development continues to increase. In fact, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) anticipates that wind and solar energy will continue to exceed electrical generation by other means....more
The California State Legislature is considering Assembly Bill (AB) 2216, a measure introduced by Assemblymember Matt Haney, that would force landlords to permit pets in residential rental properties. Specifically, the...more
In what may turn out to be a lesson on the limits of the application of equitable doctrines supporting rent relief in the face of good lease drafting, a California court of appeal panel in San Diego has taken a narrow view on...more
The dust has settled on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) first west coast auction for federal offshore wind lease areas. The California auction for the Morro Bay and Humboldt Call Areas brought an aggregate...more
On October 18, 2022, the Department of the Interior announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) will hold an auction to sell five offshore wind energy leases in federal waters off the California coast, with...more
City Council Expected to Pass Budget and Tax Changes This Afternoon Today is City Council’s last voting session before summer recess begins. The legislative body is expected to pass a budget that will invest additional money...more
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released its final sale notice (FSN) for two lease areas totaling 110,091 acres in the Carolina Long Bay Area on March 25, 2022. The auction for these lease areas will be held...more
On July 20, 2021, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an amendment to the San Francisco Commercial Eviction Moratorium Ordinance (Moratorium Amendment) codifying a legal presumption to potentially...more
A recent case from the Appellate Division, Second Department, addresses one of our favorite topics, standing. It is a cautionary tale about how not to establish standing....more
If a tenant wants to renew its lease and fails to send the landlord written notice on time of its intent to renew, is the tenant out of luck? ...more
As anticipated, in response to the widely unpopular holding in The Game Place, L.L.C. v. Fredericksburg 35, LLC, 813 S.E.2d 312 (Va. 2018), the governor of Virginia signed a bill on February 13, 2019 removing the previous...more
Virginia’s General Assembly recently approved a bill amending the Statute of Conveyances to remove the requirement that the conveyance of an estate in land for a term of more than five years must be in the form of a deed and...more
On July 1, Pennsylvania will begin enforcing enhanced personal income tax withholding requirements that were enacted by the legislature as a part of Act 43 of 2017. ...more
The Florida Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust (BOT) has publicly noticed a rulemaking workshop to discuss proposed revisions to the administrative rules governing sovereign submerged land leases. The...more
County of Suffolk v. Lexington Ins. Co., Case Number 604661-2017, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Suffolk County - Under New York law, the requirement of a fortuitous loss is a necessary element for coverage to...more
On August 22, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Rev. Proc. 2016-44, which provides new guidance on the treatment of “management contracts” for purposes of the restrictions on use of property financed with...more
As with many states, Alabama provides an exemption from its sales and use tax if tangible personal property is purchased for the purpose of leasing or renting it to a third party. Alabama Code sections 40-23-1 and 40-23-63(4)...more