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Sui Generis: Collaborate Like You Mean It

Lydia Pilch

Part Three of a Series This article offers up some thoughts about how lawyers ought to access and manage resources in order to provide a multi-faceted, full-service approach to addressing their clients' needs.

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Sui Generis: Negotiate Like You Mean It

Lydia Pilch

As further follow-up regarding tracking of the lifecycle of a commercial lease, Part Two of this series addresses various negotiation events, strategies, desired outcomes and potentially low key disasters.

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Sui Generis: Draft Like You Mean It

Lydia Pilch

The automatic acceptance of various boilerplate clauses in commercial leases in the face of jurisprudential modernity and evolving legal approaches is dangerous. The evolutionary exploits of a commercial lease aren't done yet, nor should they be.

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Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence In CRE and Law Firm Practice

Joy Holley

In addition to boosting efficiency and productivity, GenAI's new technological capabilities hold the promise of empowering lawyers to offer more precise and insightful guidance to their clients.

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Law Firms Embracing 'Hoteling' to Save On Office Lease Costs

Anthony Davies

While new to law firms, hoteling strategies are line with the practices of companies in other verticals where hoteling and 100% work flexibility have been successfully in place for some time.

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Second Circuit Likely to Deliver Big Win for Commercial Shopping Center Lessor

Michael L. Cook

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, on remand from the Supreme Court, further remanded to the district court the key issue of whether the Chapter 11 debtor gave "adequate assurance of future performance of" a commercial real property shopping center lease "as required by the Bankruptcy Code after the debtor's assignment of its lease.

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NYC Local Law 18 On Short-Term Rentals Takes Effect

Matthew A. Ulmann

New York City's Short-Term Rental Registration Law (Local Law 18), which directly impacts the ability of an individual unit owner to rent his or her apartment on a short-term basis, took effect on Sept. 5, 2023.

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It's a Tenant's Market: How to Negotiate and Navigate the Leasing Process Image

It's a Tenant's Market: How to Negotiate and Navigate the Leasing Process

Sandra D. Buchko

A hybrid workforce has meant that office and retail space is in plentiful supply. These high vacancy rates have caused landlord defaults to be on the rise, making it a tenant-friendly environment for leasing space and obtaining tenant-favorable lease terms. Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to negotiate the best lease terms and navigate the leasing process while saving money on rent, tenant buildout and operating expenses.

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The Do's and Don'ts of 'Yellowstone' Injunctions: A Brief Survey Image

The Do's and Don'ts of 'Yellowstone' Injunctions: A Brief Survey

Daniel A. Cohen & Fielding E. Huseth

A Yellowstone injunction proceeding is a proceeding in New York court in which a commercial tenant seeks to enjoin the landlord from evicting the tenant for an alleged breach of the lease. This temporary relief preserves the tenant's ability to cure should the court determine that the tenant is in breach, and thus avoid forfeiting its substantial investment in the leasehold.

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Substantive Non-Consolidation Opinion Letters: Advice for Bankruptcy Counsel

Paul A. Rubin & Hanh V. Huynh

Substantive non-consolidation opinion letters have long been a regular "check-the-box" item in large commercial real estate transactions. While substantive consolidation jurisprudence has not changed materially over the past decade, these opinion letters should not be treated lightly by borrowers or their counsel.

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