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ROBO-LITIGATION Re: Attorney Misconduct at Foreclosure Mills The scale of attorney malfeasance in connection with the foreclosure crisis is enormous. Whether attorneys knowingly filed false documents or simply failed to...more
People in a sectional title complex need to be familiar with the different groupings of parties running the complex...more
Sectional Forum's Body Corporate Trustees Pack...more
An Estate Agents Guide to the Correct Code of Conduct regarding the following: General duty to protect the public’s interest; Mandates; Duty to disclose; Duty not to make misrepresentations of false statements or to...more
When faced with a challenge in a Sectional Title Scheme, involving a part of the property or building, often the first question to be answered is whether the particular part concerned is a Section, Exclusive Use Area or...more
During my years of litigation, and equally so now in the field of litigation graphics, I became convinced of the importance of inspecting whatever items and locations that a case revolves around in order to visualize and then...more
Oct. 18 (Bloomberg Law) -- Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia runs through the week's most important legal news. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is considering a plan to grant unprecedented legal immunity to mortgage lenders....more
In construction litigation, almost every description—from Aggregate, Beater Bars and Canusa wraps, to Wonderboard, Yokes and Z-bars—involves specialized language of the trade that must be made understandable. Visual aids...more
Originally published in The Brief, Volume 41, Number 4, Summer 2012. TIPS Chair Randy Aliment’s 2011–2012 theme is Disaster Preparedness and Response. The Disaster Preparedness and Response Task Force was formed in...more
Levy Interest and Administration Charges Resolution - June 2012...more
Alan Levy Attorneys' Lease Agreement between a Body Corporate and an Owner in respect of the leasing of Common Property by the Body Corporate to an Owner...more
At Cogent Legal, real estate and land use cases are among our favorite to support. They can offer up rich and tangible imagery to shape for jury scrutiny. Not surprisingly, trial teams for such cases, on occasion, come to us...more
Our last note highlighted the importance of effectively negotiating exclusions to Operating Expenses and offered examples of some exclusions that, if not properly negotiated, can significantly impact the tenant’s bottom line....more
Landlords' Classical Questions on The Consumer Protection Act...more
Tenants' Classical Questions on the Consumer Protection Act...more
The Guide to PAIA submissions for Home Owners’ Associations...more
The Guide to PAIA submissions for Body Corporates...more
On November 4, 2011, Congress' Committee on Oversight and Reform's Ranking Member Elijah Cummings demands infamous foreclosure Mill Steven Baum to produce documents because Congress is investigating his alleged "improper or...more
UK Real Estate Investment Trusts (UK REITs) were introduced by the Finance Act 2006 to give investors a tax-efficient way of getting exposure to commercial property. This special tax regime came into force on 1 January 2007...more
Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (“HMRC”) has announced that it intends to start imposing the maximum penalty of £3,000 in respect of online and paper SDLT returns under section 96 of the Finance Act...more
The long awaited ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in case of Real Estate Bar Association (REBA) v. National Estate Information Services (NREIS) has just come down. The net effect of the Court’s ruling is...more
Join me at the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law's (RPTE) 22nd Spring Symposia in Washington DC on April 28, 2011 where we will discuss "The Positive Side of Social Media" - the...more
Many of my followers outside the UK ask me about the rather bizarre nature of “squatter’s rights” in the UK. How can members of the public take over vacant properties (such as Saif Gaddafi’s Hampstead home, or Guy Ritchie’s...more
CANNABIS LAW AND PRACTICE HANDBOOKS the business of marijuana San Francisco-based Litigation Research Group announces a series of cannabis law & practice handbooks, each published as a confidential...more
Body Corporates Beware – Clearance Certificates from the Municipality...more
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