Landlord Tenant Law

You are Done, Right?

After a lease is fully executed, many attorneys may be tempted to think that their role in the leasing "process" is over. However, depending on the capabilities of your client to understand and administer the terms of the lease, not paying attention to "post-lease" signing details may be a perilous proposition.

A Tenant's Perspective

As traditional department stores and so-called "anchor" tenants in enclosed regional malls are closing stores and limiting their expansion in the marketplace, landlords are seeking alternatives to the traditional department store or anchor store to occupy space in their shopping centers.

A look at a case involving retention of tenant's check in a lockbox.

Balancing Creative Uses withCo-Tenancy ProvisionsPart Three of aFive-Part Series

The volume of store closings is challenging shopping center owners to evolve. Shopping center owners have responded by finding creative uses for vacant spaces and ways to enhance the customer experience.

Over the past several years, rent-stabilized tenants have turned to Airbnb and similar services to monetize their below-market leases and earn extra income. Landlords seeking to evict such tenants for profiteering have been largely successful. This article examines the state of "Airbnb" jurisprudence to date.

This article shares an actual recent dispute in which a landlord claimed there was a mutual mistake in the material terms of a right of first refusal after the proper exercise of such right and acceptance of such material terms by its tenant.

A look at two interesting cases.

Landlords' Duty to Mitigate Damages.

Part Two of a Five-Part Series

In Part One of this series, the authors addressed managing the legal process to help commercial landlords achieve the most efficient results when dealing with a defaulting retail tenant. But what happens once the shopping center owner or manager recovers possession of the lease premises?