Once Removed Episode 10: Trustee Removal and Case Update on Leo Kahn Revocable Trust
Red Hot Apartment Investment Market Starts to Cool
State Land Use Board Weighs in on Oregon Coast Fight Over Short Term Rentals
Developing Philly: The State of Philadelphia's Tax Abatements in 2022
Title Insurance and Your Transaction
Lead Exposure Claims: Proactive Strategies for Effective Resolution
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
Eminent Domain: First Principles, Kelo, and In Service of Infrastructure Buildout
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 310: Listen and Learn -- Adverse Possession
Managing Apartment Turnover: From Launch to $10M Series A, with Rent Ready's Jonathan Kite
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 144: Listen and Learn -- Adverse Possession
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 305: Listen and Learn -- Property Crimes
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 140: Listen and Learn -- Regulatory Takings
On-Demand Webinar | Living on the Edge: Managing Sea Level Rise in California
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 122: Listen and Learn -- Easements (Real Property)
On-Demand Webinar | Eminent Domain in 2020: A Year in Review
Design-Build: Everything That Was Old Is New Again
Law Brief: Your Ad Here: Outdoor Advertising and the Law
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Last week, in The Seaview at Amagansett, Ltd. v. Town of East Hampton Justice Paul J. Baisely, Jr. found the Town of East Hampton and several of its officials in civil and criminal contempt of the Appellate Division, Second...more
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What promises to be the first of a litany of legal interpretations of the new Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act (MMCA), Attorney General Lynn Fitch released an official attorney general’s opinion on April 15, 2022, regarding...more
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The Board of Trustees in the Village of Dering Harbor, located on Shelter Island, adopted a resolution in February of 2018, granting an application of property owners, Brad Goldfarb and Alfredo Paredes, to install and...more
Generally, many property owners assume that where a lot is held in single and separate ownership they are entitled to an area variance “as of right.” That is not entirely true. An exception to the single and separate...more
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The tide seems to have turned against the Town and the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton (Trustees) in a recent decision by the Second Department....more