Real Estate

  • New York Law Journal

    The Doctrine of Primary Jurisdiction Comes to the Fore

    By Warren A. Estis and Jeffrey Turkel | January 2, 2018

    In their Rent Stabilization column, Warren A. Estis and Jeffrey Turkel trace the application of the doctrine of primary jurisdiction in the post-'Roberts' era.

  • New York Law Journal | News

    Otterbourg: How Smaller Firms Compete in a Supersized Market

    By Susan DeSantis | December 27, 2017

    Richard Stehl, the chairman of Otterbourg, a 50-attorney law firm, speaks to the New York Law Journal about the advantages and challenges of being a smaller law firm in a city where everything is supersized.

  • New York Law Journal | Analysis

    Year in Review: These Issues Dominated Albany in Tumultuous 2017

    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.

  • New York Law Journal | Update

    Financial Services Dept. Delays Portion of New Title Insurance Regulation

    By Josefa Velasquez | December 20, 2017

    The DFS posted on its website Tuesday night that it would delay enforcing a certain section of the regulation that deals with prohibition on inducements for future title insurance business and permitted expenses.

  • New York Law Journal

    Realty Law Digest

    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.

  • New York Law Journal | Analysis

    Bitcoin and the Real Estate Lawyer

    By Elizabeth Jaikaran | December 19, 2017

    Elizabeth Jaikaran looks at the counseling issues at play when cryptocurrency is used to fund real estate transactions, and discusses the first wholly Bitcoin-funded real estate transaction, which closed in September of this year.

  • New York Law Journal | News

    Firm Tied to Russian Treasury Fraud Accuses US of Bad Faith in Executing Settlement

    By Andrew Denney | December 14, 2017

    On Thursday, the fifth anniversary of the enactment of the Magnitsky Act, the U.S. law named for the lawyer who exposed a $230 million fraud from the Russian Treasury, a prosecutor called on a federal judge to enforce a settlement agreement in which an entity accused of laundering those funds agreed to pay $5.9 million.

  • New York Law Journal | News

    James Cullen, Real Estate Lawyer and General Who Fought Torture, Dies at 72

    By Christine Simmons | December 12, 2017

    Cullen, a leading real estate lawyer and former brigadier general who practiced with Anderson Kill, took a vocal stand against torture in 2004 after Abu Ghraib photos were made public.

  • New York Law Journal

    Departmental Divide on Shareholder Family Occupancy

    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.

  • New York Law Journal

    Realty Law Digest

    By Scott E. Mollen | December 12, 2017

    Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein and an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law discusses 'S.B.H. Realty v. Santana', where the court held that a defective predicate notice cannot serve as a basis for a holdover suit, and 'O'Reilly v. Incorporated Village of Rockville Centre', where the court, noting strong community opposition, granted the enforcement of a village's moratorium.

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