Streamlining office space corresponds with industry-wide trends of law firms embarking on two seemingly paradoxical goals: decreasing their office space while aggressively growing head count.
February 01, 2022Justin Henry
During the COVID-19 pandemic, some tenants were able to negotiate termination agreements with their landlords. But even though a landlord may agree to terminate a lease to regain control of a defaulting tenant's space without costly and lengthy litigation, typically a defaulting tenant that otherwise has no contractual right to terminate its lease will be in a much weaker bargaining position with respect to the conditions for termination.
January 01, 2022Ann E. Ryan and Adrienne B. KochDisaster — a seemingly closed economy, crashed supply chains, tight labor availability, and many millions out of work — turned into rising values, some hot sectors, and rising rents and increased stability by 2021. Stepping into 2022 should be a good deal less jarring. And yet, there might be changes and surprises. Here's what experts see as coming up.
January 01, 2022Erik ShermanWhen, at the culmination of environmental review under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), a municipality resolves to require a developer to ameliorate environmental impacts, can anyone other than the municipality itself enforce the requirement?
January 01, 2022Stewart E. SterkEncroachment By Party Wall Will Not Support a Notice of Pendency Questions of Fact Remain In Party Wall Dispute Easement Was Only for Access Seller's Failure to Provide Estoppel Certificates Excuses Purchaser from Performing Equitable Title Claim Upheld
January 01, 2022NYRE StaffWhen, at the culmination of environmental review under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), a municipality resolves to require a developer to ameliorate environmental impacts, can anyone other than the municipality itself enforce the requirement?
January 01, 2022Stewart E. SterkNonpayment Proceeding Not Available for Use and Occupancy Questions of Fact About Whether Landlord Accepted Surrender Improper Withholding of Consent Does Not Excuse Guarantor Loft Board's Rejection of Abandonment Petition Upheld
January 01, 2022NYRE StaffThe law firm office cannot remain unchanged, therefore, as if frozen in time set to some date prior to the onset of pandemic, when all the terms and meaning have all changed. In fact, the office must now provide benefits or an experience the lawyers and staff cannot get at home.
January 01, 2022Anthony DaviesThe Southern District of New York, as part of an unresolved 14-year saga in the Village of Pomona, New York, found that the Plaintiffs, who are seeking to construct a Rabbinical College, had brought an action against the Village that is not ripe for adjudication.
December 01, 2021Steven M. Silverberg
