Practice Areas
REAL ESTATE:
General Ownership Issues
- Advise commercial property owners on all general ownership issues
- Vendor agreements
- Landlord waivers of rights demanded by lenders for tenants
- License agreements
- Right to enter and license agreements
- Telecommunication site agreements
- Indemnity and insurance agreements
- Reciprocal easement agreements
Commercial Leases
- Prepare and review new commercial leases
- Prepare form commercial leases
- Prepare and review lease comments
- Draft amendments to leases
- Assignment and assumption agreements
- Sublease and assignment agreements
- Review requests for assignment and subletting
- Landlord’s consents to assignments
- Landlord’s consents to subleases
- UCC-1 liens
- Security agreements on fixtures, furnishings and equipment
- Termination of lease agreements
- Temporary seasonal lease agreements
- Tenant improvement work letters
Commercial Brokerage
- Brokerage agreements
- Property management agreements
- Transaction disputes
Litigation / Dispute Resolution
- Breach of lease / guaranty actions
- Unlawful detainer actions
- Breach of contract actions
- Notices to pay or quit
- Notices to perform lease covenants
- Disposal of abandoned personal property
- Abandonment issues
- Problem tenant issues
- Operating expense disputes
- Enforcement of reciprocal easement agreements
- Disputes on priority re personal property liens
- Commencement date disputes
- Substantial completion disputes
- Brokerage agreement disputes
- Property management disputes
- Co-owner rights / remedies
Real Estate Transactions
- Advising brokers, buyers and sellers
- Review and tailoring of purchase and sale forms and counter-offers
- Assistance with disclosure forms and escrow instructions
- Assistance with reducing liability issues
CONSTRUCTION:
Document Preparation / Review
- Owner/contractor agreements
- Construction management agreements
- Subcontracts, change orders
- Mechanics’ liens / releases
- Notices of non-responsibility
Litigation / Dispute Resolution
- Construction defect remedies and defense
- Owner/contractor/subcontractor disputes
- Tenant improvement disputes
- Construction completion issues
- Mechanics’ lien and stop notice disputes
- Insurance claims
BANKRUPTCY: Creditor Rights
- Representation of landlord/creditor rights
- Bankruptcy claims
GENERAL LITIGATION:
- Pre-litigation analysis, asset searches
- Prejudgment attachment and collection
- Injunctive relief
- Specific performance
- Business disputes
- Breach of contract actions
- Mediations, arbitrations and settlement agreements
- Stipulations/confessions for judgment
- Court and jury trials
- Liens and enforcement of judgments