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Corporate Counsel

Owner of Luxury Hotels Plucks New GC From Apartment Industry

Anika Fischer is taking the legal reins of DiamondRock Hospitality, which is seeing transitions in its C-suite 20 years after its founding.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Counsel Saw Pay Rise Over Past Year, Despite Drop in Job-Hopping

Legal department attorneys received modest pay increases over the past year after median pay dropped 3% between 2022 and 2023, according to search firm BarkerGilmore's 2024 In-House Counsel Compensation Report.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Landlord Agrees to $6M Settlement With Woman Assaulted in Phila. Office Building

"The reality is, but for the negligent security, the attacker couldn't have done what he did. Had proper security been in place, he wouldn't have gotten that far," Kline & Specter partner Lorraine Donnelly said.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

New York Court Gives Green Light for Jurisdiction Over Alleged Real Estate Insider Scheme

Insiders of Fang Holdings ultimately forced the company to spend around $130 million in order to acquire a 35.8% minority interest in a subsidiary, China Index Holdings, despite owning it outright just a few years earlier, according to the lawsuit.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

LTN Startup Spotlight: Estateably Founders on the Advantage of Being Industry 'Outsiders'

Legaltech News sat down with Estateably co-founders Ari Brojde and Alex Wulkan to discuss how their company has evolved in the last six years to account for the growth of the practice area they serve.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Reasonableness of Property Sale; Unclean Hands: This Week in Scott Mollen's Realty Law Digest

Scott Mollen discusses "JCMC W. 34 Mezz II LLC v. Penn Hotel Jr. LLC," and "214 Lafayette House LLC v. Akasa Holdings."
17 minute read

New York Law Journal

A Deed In a Box: A Rare NY Case Where It Was Tied Up With Bow

A seemingly tidy and fair solution to a very complicated problem, a deed in escrow gives a borrower additional time to sell or refinance its property while still giving the lender an efficient means to obtain the property if the borrower defaults anew. This is hardly a gift in New York though, where the oft-called "deed in a box" is almost always held to be unenforceable.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

'Worth Well Over $100M': Ex-Justice Nahmias Set to Argue for 200-Year-Old Wetland Grant

The Georgia Court of Appeals is set to wade into what has become a hot topic of late.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Court Sides With Real Estate Broker in Dispute Over Employee Classification Under Wage Payment Law

"Under the Brokers Act, the parties' agreement to an independent contractor affiliation is not merely one of several factors in the analysis, as the Appellate Division viewed it to be," Justice Anne M. Patterson said. "To the contrary, if the parties have agreed in writing to a business affiliation in compliance with the Brokers Act, that agreement is dispositive."
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

225 Docket Entries in 7 Days in Case Where AGs Want Bankruptcy Investigated

"These investments have all the appearances of a Ponzi scheme that is continuing to harm Steward-owned hospitals," said U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey.
4 minute read

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