New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Josefa Velasquez | December 21, 2017
The New York Law Journal takes a look back at 2017 and reviews the highlights and lowlights of the year in Albany, exclusive of state court rulings.
By Scott E. Mollen | December 19, 2017
Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein and an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law discusses “Motta v. Sheehan,” a landlord-tenant case where the court restored the petitioner to possession of the premises after the receiver illegally evicted her without a judgment of possession and warrant of eviction.
By Richard G. Lyons | December 15, 2017
OP-ED: A few of the legal challenges that an aspiring entrepreneur may face in opening up shop in local municipalities.
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman | December 12, 2017
Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman discuss a split among the First and Second Department Appellate Divisions on their interpretations of a common clause in proprietary leases for cooperative apartments relating to whether a proprietary lessee must live in the apartment simultaneously with a close family member for the family member's occupancy to be legal under the proprietary lease.
By Andrew Denney | December 4, 2017
The New York City government has brokered a settlement with fair housing advocates in an 8-year-old case involving proposed housing developments in Brooklyn that a judge said favored white and Hasidic residents over blacks and Hispanics.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Lindsay Schoonmaker | November 27, 2017
A common misconception about tenants facing eviction is that they are being evicted because they cannot pay the rent. In fact, the situation tends to be much more complicated.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Michael Marciano | November 21, 2017
Personal-injury attorney Patricia Cruz Fragoso of Danbury's Ventura Law has been appointed to serve on the Connecticut Judicial Branch's Access to Justice Commission.
By Andrew Denney | November 14, 2017
Kushner Cos. has been hit with another lawsuit regarding Jared Kushner's conduct as a landlord, this time accusing him of charging market-rate rents to tenants of an apartment building in Brooklyn that was supposed to be rent-stabilized.
Daily Business Review | Profile
By Lidia Dinkova | November 10, 2017
Oscar R. Rivera worked for a labor law firm when he was in high school. It was mostly grunt work, he said. Since then, he has represented big names in real estate and worked on a project that redefined Brickell retail.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Kenneth M. Block and Joshua M. Levy | November 7, 2017
In their Construction Law column, Kenneth Block and Joshua Levy conclude that when representing a project owner, ensuring the agreement between the owner and the owner's representative contains both a properly delineated scope of authority and a comprehensive indemnity is "critical."
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