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In the Spotlight: Executing Leases Faster and Cheaper
March 17, 2011
A landlord should track and resolve open lease issues everyday. This approach is simply the only way for a lease to get signed quickly and minimize costs.Anthony Casareale is Of Counsel in the Real Estate Practice of Greenberg Traurig's White Plains, NY, and Miami offices.
Labeling Leases
March 17, 2011
The term "triple net lease," rather than depicting transactions predominantly having well-settled common features, now conjures up more of a spectrum of "netness." Here's what this means.
HOW LONG SHOULD IT COOK?
March 07, 2011
There's an old saw, in the public relations business, about what you say to a new client for whom you haven't delivered what he or she expected in the first month of the contract. 'It's in the pipeline,' we used to say. It meant that we'd spent that first month understanding the firm and its story, developing the press material, planning the strategy and making presentations to the media. The groundwork. And in the second month, presumably, it would all come to fruition.
LEGAL SALES TRAINING
March 03, 2011
LEGAL SALES TRAINING - Last year's Closers Group survey of law firm attorneys and marketing professionals found that "closing skills" was most often cited as missing from attorney sales training. If you are going to "get 'em out there," closing must be taught and practiced. Throughout the business development continuum, law firms often find a key component missing -- the lawyers themselves, whose expertise ought to be (but isn't always) driving the sales process. In the…
Landlord & Tenant
February 28, 2011
Key rulings of interest.
Development
February 28, 2011
Commentary on a major case.
Cooperatives & Condominiums
February 28, 2011
In-depth analysis of a key case.
Obstacles to Settlement of Land-Use Disputes
February 28, 2011
Article 78 proceedings between landowners and municipalities are a staple for New York's court system, often reaching the Appellate Division on disputes that seem insignificant to the outside observer.
March issue in PDF format
February 28, 2011
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IP News
February 28, 2011
Highlights of the latest intelletual property news from around the country.

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