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Tonkon Torp LLP

Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Landlord Is Doing the Work

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In her new Ear to the Ground video, the first of a two-part series on lease work letters, attorney Kimberlee Stafford, Chair of our Real Estate & Land Use Practice Group, discusses key work letter issues and situations when...more

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Building Safety Act 2022: changing the rules on the landlord and tenant relationship, Part 2 - qualifying lease certificates

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In a previous blog, I explored one aspect of the statutory reallocation of risk for the costs of works to remedy building safety issues in the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022). The focus of that blog was the new landlord’s...more

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Building Safety Act 2022: changing the rules on the landlord and tenant relationship

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The Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022) creates a whole new world of building safety regulation and litigation. A key legislative objective was to regulate and direct responsibility for the cost of works to remedy building...more

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Tenants Underwater: Indiana Court of Appeals Upholds Privity Requirement for Property Damage Claims Against Contractors

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In United States Automatic Sprinkler Corp. v. Erie Ins. Exch., et al., No. 21A-CT-580, 2022 Ind. App. LEXIS 87 (Automatic Sprinkler), the Court of Appeals of Indiana (Court of Appeals) considered whether there is a privity...more

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Absent "Special Agreement," Commercial Landlord Has No Obligation to Repair Latent Construction Defects

The Oregon Court of Appeals determined on July 21, 2021, that a commercial landlord had no obligation to remedy latent construction defects under a "build to suit" lease, since the lease did not contain a "special...more

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