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Law firm launches non-profit practice
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Law firm launches non-profit practice

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by REW854
Duval & Stachenfeld LLP announced the launch of its Strategic Non-Profit Practice Group. The group will combine the expertise of the Firm’s Non-Profit Group – Tax Group – Real Estate Group – and Business Reorganization Group – to provide mission-critical and strategic advice to non-profit organizations as they navigate this...
Legal team to tackle toughest tax issues
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Legal team to tackle toughest tax issues

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by REW878
Duval & Stachenfeld LLP has launched a Tax Controversy Practice Group. The group will meld the expertise of the firm’s tax, litigation, not-for-profit, real estate and general counseling practices into an integrated practice group that is dedicated to protecting the firm’s clients from adverse results in controversies or other situations...
Industry mourns lawyer Herbert Balin
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Industry mourns lawyer Herbert Balin

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by REW1124
Hebert M. Balin, retired artner of Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP, who practiced law for six decades and was one of the first attorneys to introduce land use planning concepts on Long Island, died on January 9, 2015, at Winthrop Hospital in Mineola. He was 86. Balin distinguished himself...
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Zoning lawyers are true detectives of official jargon

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by REW1213
By Frank Chaney, Of Counsel Rosenberg & Estis PC Zoning attorneys approach zoning due diligence as if they were uncovering the mysteries behind the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is an exacting process that requires analysis, interpretation, translation and explanation. We want to know what the meaning of “is” is. Large...
Beware the minefield that is EOT requests
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Beware the minefield that is EOT requests

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by REW Staff1069
By Henry L. Goldberg, managing partner, Goldberg & Connolly We continue to sound the alarm about the increasingly wide-spread use by public agencies of C.O.F.E.D.s (Contractor Forfeiture Enhancement Devices”). The drumbeat of this campaign will warn of the land mines to which we have seen contractors and subcontractors repeatedly, and...
Brokers struggle to pick sides
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Brokers struggle to pick sides

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by REW1274
Can appraisers objectively value a building if they know their job depends on a high price tag? Once upon a time, such potential conflicts of interest were widely considered a main culprit of the 2008 financial meltdown and a systemic flaw in need of fixing. But as the crash fades in memory, so do hopes of reform. While banks have been forced to separate some of their business lines in the past years and private equity may be next, real estate firms are still left largely unchecked. Lawyers reckon this is unlikely to change.
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Energy, Money, & Law conference

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by REW Staff1168
[imagebrowser id=318] As part of New York Energy Week, The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College presented a conference,“ Energy, Money & Law: Investment and Legal Strategies for Advanced Energy Performance in Real Estate” on June 19. The event was presented in partnership with Associated Renewable, the energy consulting...
Class action Sandy suit stumped
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Class action Sandy suit stumped

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by REW Staff1177
A Supreme Court judge dealt a blow last week to an attempt to bring a class-action lawsuit against New York City landlords on behalf of tenants displaced by Hurricane Sandy. In her decision, the judge expressed reservations about treating tenants in storm-affected buildings as a single group in court because every apartment is different. “Computing damages in any way other than tenant-by-tenant runs the risk of glossing over the needs of each tenant and the individual efforts of each landlord,” the judge wrote.
Court sends gas station boss to jail in lieu of apology
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Court sends gas station boss to jail in lieu of apology

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by REW Staff3967
An attorney for a group of LLC operating city gas stations has been ordered to jail for wasting a court’s time. Unless Robert Del Gadio provides “a sincere apologyˮ to the court and the landlord, and pays $12,000 in fines and legal fees, he is facing three days behind bars....
When it comes to rent regulation reform, say uncle
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When it comes to rent regulation reform, say uncle

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by REW Staff3505
By Corina Streekmann Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman LLP  The Rent Regulation Reform Act of 1997 (RRRA) modified the class of individuals eligible for succession and eliminated nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles from among those relatives which qualify as “family members” for succession claims to rent regulated tenancies. In a...