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.
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
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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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