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Law Partner Gets Five-Year Suspension For Neglecting Cases Over a Decade
DHCR's Major Capital Improvement Policy Upheld
In their Rent Regulation column, Warren A. Estis, a founding partner at Rosenberg & Estis, and Jeffrey Turkel, a partner at the firm, analyze a unanimous New York State Court of Appeals ruling that where a landlord performs MCI work but that work does not benefit some apartments due to poor workmanship, the Division of Housing and Community Renewal is authorized to permanently deny MCI rent increases for those apartments.Tenants Not Always Afforded 'Mandatory' 10-Day Stay
Rosenberg & Estis partners Warren A. Estis and Michael E. Feinstein write that while numerous appellate courts have observed that a 10-day stay to allow a tenant to correct a breach of a lease is imposed by statute, courts have declined to afford the tenant the benefit of the "mandatory" stay in certain circumstances, particularly where the court finds that the default is incapable of being cured within the 10-day period.Four-Year Rule Continues to Bedevil the Courts
Warren A. Estis and Jeffrey Turkel, partners at Rosenberg & Estis, write: The four-year statute of limitations on rent overcharges under the RSL recently celebrated its 27th birthday. Notwithstanding, courts and individual judges continue to sharply disagree as to how the so-called "four-year rule" is to be interpreted and implemented.Daffy's Wins Bid to Keep Its Lease Despite Late Notice of Renewal
Justice Saxe, writing for the First Department panel, said that the landlord was not prejudiced by Daffy's delay, that the delay was "an honest mistake," and that the store had garnered substantial goodwill in its 15 years at that location, an asset which would be damaged by its ouster.Judge Finds Knowledge of One Attorney's Malpractice Cannot Be Imputed to the Firm
Personal Knowledge of Malpractice Can't Be Imputed to Firm
Just the fact that a partner had a long history of misconduct doesn't necessarily mean his firm knew about it, a New York court has found. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Herman Cahn found for a landlord-tenant firm, which sued Chicago Insurance Co. to compel it to provide a defense to malpractice claims arising from a partner's misdeeds. The insurer had refused on the grounds that the partner's knowledge of his misconduct should be imputed to the firm.Trending Stories
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