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Olympic Swimmer's Counsel on Client's Legal Concerns

Melea VanOstrand

When 2020 came and went without the Tokyo Olympics, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, lawyer Alan Fertel watched as many of the sponsorships and deals he'd negotiated for one of the world's fastest swimmers — now Tokyo Olympics Gold medal winner Caleb Dressel — expired.

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Frustration-of-Purpose Use In Commercial Leases During the Pandemic

Joshua Wurtzel

The use of the frustration-of-purpose doctrine to absolve commercial tenants of their obligation to pay rent could signal headwinds for the commercial real estate market — and the economy more generally.

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Real Property Law

NYRE Staff

License to Enter Neighbor's Property Reversed Partnership Lacked Authority to Convey Property Questions of Fact About Whether Easement Extinguished By Adverse Possession Purchaser Acquired Deed By False Pretenses Broker Failed to Establish Agreement to Pay Commission

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The Future of Litigation Workflow: Reimagining Technology and Process in the Next Decade

Ari Kaplan

Hear what a cross-section of law firm leaders say about how the pandemic has impacted litigation in the short- and long-term.

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Reimagining Technology and Process in the Next Decade

Ari Kaplan

A Q&A with a cross-section of law firm leaders to understand how the pandemic has impacted litigation in the short- and long-term.

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Sorting Through the Trump Financial Documents: How Prosecutors Will Search for Clues

Nicholas Gaffney

A Q&A with Bobby Malhotra, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles

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Ninth Circuit's Mixed Ruling In TMZ/Starline Arbitration Dispute

Alaina Lancaster

A California federal appeals court panel refused to broaden disclosure requirements for alternative dispute resolution organizations and called for court precedent to be revisited in a case over a soured partnership between entertainment news company TMZ and a Los Angeles celebrity tour bus company.

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Will Delta Variant of COVID-19 Impact Commercial Real Estate Recovery?

Erik Sherman

The new Delta variant of COVID-19 is speeding across the country, raising the question of whether the assumptions earlier this year of an economic rebound — some even predicted a super bounce — were premature.

Columns & Departments

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Development

NYRE Staff

ZBA Did Not Have to Act Unanimously Activist Not Entitled to Nullification of Cover Letter Community Board Included With Its Recommendations DOB's Approval of Homeless Shelter Upheld Area Variance Upheld

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Escape New York: Court Dismisses NRA's Chapter 11 As Improper Tactic to Avoid New York's Non-Profit Regulatory Scheme Image

Escape New York: Court Dismisses NRA's Chapter 11 As Improper Tactic to Avoid New York's Non-Profit Regulatory Scheme

Steven B. Smith & Silvia Stockman

This article explores the competing factors the Bankruptcy Court considered and the rationale underlying its decision to grant the drastic relief of dismissing the NRA's bankruptcy case.

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