Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Tenant Is Doing the Work
SDNY Chooses “Time Approach” to Calculating Lease Termination Damages Collectible Against a Bankrupt Estate
CFPB’s Involvement in Tenant Screening - FCRA Focus Podcast
When Can Oregon Landlords Terminate Residential Tenancy Without Cause?
Practicing on the Front Lines of Landlord-Tenant Regulations and Housing Law
It’s Lit? Insight into the Increase in Cannabis-Related Litigation in California
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
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 149: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Duties of Landlords, Owners, and Possessors of Land
COVID-19 in the Workplace - PPP Update, COVID Plans from the Biden Transition Team, Higher Education Relief Package Provision, COVID WARN Act Developments
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 265: Listen and Learn -- Constructive Eviction
Navigating the New Normal: Risk Management and Legal Considerations for Real Estate Companies
Reopening Commercial Buildings: COVID-19 Issues Podcast
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 93: Listen and Learn -- Constructive Eviction
Commercial Leases - Navigating a New Normal
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Lease Negotiations – Interview with Jeff Moerdler, Member, Mintz Levin
Recently, two significant distressed companies with thousands of commercial leases, Rite Aid Corp. and WeWork Inc., each filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, seeking in part to rationalize their geographic footprints through...more
The Freehold and Leasehold Reform Bill passed its second reading in Parliament on 11 December, and was described by Michael Gove – the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Levelling-Up - as the “effective...more
Recent breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence (AI) have captured significant media attention. Developers argue that the technology, which learns from data to produce new text, visual, or audio content based on a...more
The United States’ retail cannabis industry continues exploding, and it doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. These numbers are guaranteed to change after this Tuesday’s election, but as of October 2022, 37 states have...more
A recent court case (Exclusive Motoring Worldwide, Inc. v. Soral Investments, Inc., 2022 WL 5237093 (Fla. 3d DCA 2022)) serves as a good reminder that a landlord may only be able to obtain funds deposited into the court’s...more
Laws regarding service and emotional support animals can be confusing to property owners—and guidance can vary depending upon the type of animal and its function. For example, recently, the Department of Housing and Urban...more
Due to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, many local governments in California have passed eviction moratoriums prohibiting landlords from evicting residential tenants who fail to pay rent. Although those...more
On the latest Law Brief® episode, Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring Partner Robert Wolf and Associate Alexander Tiktin join host, Richard Schoenstein to discuss the current status of the COVID-19 foreclosure and eviction...more
COVID-19 has had an enormous impact on businesses of all kinds. But organizations in the real estate sector—both commercial and residential—have been hit particularly hard. The fallout from the pandemic has sparked numerous...more
In This Issue. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is seeking information and comment regarding the FDIC’s supervisory approach to examinations during the pandemic; the FDIC’s tech lab, FIDTECH, announced a “tech...more
On August 3, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new order banning residential evictions in counties where COVID-19 cases are quickly rising. The CDC’s prior order instituting an eviction moratorium...more
LOCKOUTS- Can I be locked out of my home during the COVID-19 emergency? No. Two different government orders prevent lockouts at this time. The State Order On March 19, 2020, New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy issued...more
LOCKOUTS- Can I be locked out of my home during the COVID-19 emergency? No. Two different government orders prevent lockouts at this time...more
On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the residential eviction moratorium was unlawful as it was beyond the authority of the United States Centers...more
On May 4, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill passed by the New York State legislature extending to August 31, 2021 the existing eviction moratorium for residential tenants and independently owned...more
A national “eviction moratorium” issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on September 4, 2020, initially was set to expire December 31, 2020, and subsequently was extended through January 31, 2021, and...more
On April 16, 2021, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an Interim Final Rule which, effective May 3, 2021, requires all “debtor collectors” pursuing an eviction to provide written notice to the tenant(s) of...more
What is a REIT? “REIT” stands for Real Estate Investment Trust. Typically, a REIT is a corporation that has elected to be taxed as a REIT (which provides several tax advantages, including the ability to deduct dividends from...more
The CFPB’s interim final rule amends Regulation F to, among other things, (i) require debt collectors to provide written notice to certain consumers about the CDC’s temporary eviction protections; and (ii) prohibit debt...more
LOCKOUTS- Can I be locked out of my home during the COVID-19 emergency? No. Two different government orders prevent lockouts at this time. 1.The State Order On March 19, 2020, New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy issued...more
LOCKOUTS- Can I be locked out of my home during the COVID-19 emergency? No. Two different government orders prevent lockouts at this time. 1. The State Order- On March 19, 2020, New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy...more
A second federal district court has declared the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (“CDC”) eviction moratorium (“CDC Moratorium”) invalid. On March 10, 2021, Judge J. Philip Calabrese of the Northern District of...more
A federal judge in Texas has declared the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium unconstitutional, holding that Article I’s power to regulate interstate commerce and enact laws necessary and...more
As the COVID summer of 2020 drew to a close, the Centers for Disease Control issued a nationwide moratorium on evicting tenants from residential properties, in an effort to promote public health and stem the tide of the...more
The new Presidential administration has set off a renewed emphasis on sustainability and climate change. While owners and other stakeholders involved in New York City real estate have been grappling with many of these issues...more