Most office leases require tenants to actively carry on business from their leased premises, and prohibit tenants from vacating or abandoning the premises. It is becoming increasingly common, however, for tenants to object to these provisions and to request the lease include a "go-dark" provision.
Multiple factors are often involved in the analysis and determination of ownership interests and insurance obligations for tenant improvements and betterments, furniture, fixtures and equipment, and other "personal property" within leased premises. Here's why it matters.
When representing bank tenants, simply following established retail principles, even zealously on some issues, is not enough. There are certain banking-specific concerns, even pitfalls, about which bank counsel must be aware.
Retail tenants in California ' and perhaps those in other states as well ' that collect ZIP Codes may very well find themselves the subject of putative class actions, the penalties for which could be substantial.
With foreclosure filings at unprecedented levels, associations are facing high assessment delinquency rates since generally when a homeowner stops paying his or her mortgage, he or she also ceases paying any assessments. A look at recent litigation.
The story of a textbook recovery in New Jersey.
The Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision in Stern v. Marshall definitively upsets a quarter-century's jurisdiction by bankruptcy courts over a large set of actions.
Winklevoss Twins Drop Facebook Supreme Court Bid
Updated Minor 'Sexting' Law Moves Through NJ Legislature
In a pair of cutting-edge First Amendment cases, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that school officials cannot discipline students for ridiculing their principals on MySpace during their hours away from school.
