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Young Lawyers Network: Resources for Those New to Commercial Leasing

Josh Crowfoot

If you are a young lawyer or in-house counsel new to commercial leasing, this article is for you. Below, Young Lawyers Network describes actions you can take to improve your knowledge, understanding, and skills.

Real Estate

Uniform Laws Update: Creating a Uniform Process for the Removal of Discriminatory Restrictions in Deeds

Editor: Benjamin Orzeske. Contributing Author: Jane Sternecky

Uniform Laws Update provides information on uniform and model state laws in development as they apply to property, trust, and estate matters. The editors of Probate & Property welcome information and suggestions from readers.

Real Estate

Keeping Current—Property

Editor Prof. Shelby D. Green. Contributor: Prof. Darryl C. Wilson

Keeping Current—Property offers a look at selected recent cases, literature, and legislation. The editors of Probate & Property welcome suggestions and contributions from readers.

Trusts & Estates

Keeping Current—Probate

Editor: Prof. Gerry W. Beyer. Authors: Julia Koert, Paula Moore, Prof. William P. LaPiana, and Jake W. Villanueva

Keeping Current—Probate offers a look at selected recent cases, tax rulings and regulations, literature, and legislation. The editors of Probate & Property welcome suggestions and contributions from readers.

Trusts & Estates

Technology—Probate: Prompt and Circumstance

Ross E. Bruch

Technology—Probate provides information on current technology and microcomputer software of interest in the probate area. The editors of Probate & Property welcome information and suggestions from readers.

Real Estate

Land Use Update - Zoning for Manufactured Housing

Daniel R. Mandelker

Manufactured housing is affordable because it has a major cost advantage. Cost is reduced by smaller size, faster building times, minimal waste problems, and protection from weather delays during construction.

Professional Development

Career Development & Wellness - The Connection Between Individual Well-Being and Business Well-Being

Mary E. Vandenack

A lot of attention is being given to the concept of well-being generally. Specific attention is being given to well-being in the workplace.

Professional Development

The Last Word: Disegno vs. Colorito

Mark R. Parthemer

In school, I was taught that a proper exposition has five paragraphs: an introduction with a thesis, two supporting paragraphs, one refutation paragraph anticipating the main point against the thesis, and a concluding paragraph with a summary.

Features

Real Estate

Impact of Buildings on Global Warming

By Helen J. Kessler

This paper explains the concepts of embodied carbon and operational carbon in detail and provides a couple of case studies to illustrate what is possible with both new and existing buildings.

Trusts & Estates

Designing Long-Term Trusts to Hold Art and Collectibles

By Michael Duffy

This paper article will highlight key administrative provisions that might be appropriate to include when designing irrevocable trusts to hold and manage art and collectibles over multiple generations.

Real Estate

All Right, All Right, All REIT: Complexities and Considerations of Real Estate Investment Trusts

By Xenia J. L. Garofalo and Hasnain Valika

This article aims to provide a broad overview of the wonderful world of REITs, including organizational requirements, distribution requirements, taxation, and certain nuanced complexities facing REITs.

Real Estate

Using Development Agreements to Further Environmental Ends A Case Study

By Frederic W. Knaak and Jordan J. Espinoza

This second install of the two-part article will cover the parties’ and their lawyers’ practical considerations in the common office lease work letter in which the tenant constructs its own leasehold improvements.

Professional Development

If You’re a Good Legal Writer, You Don’t Write Good: Better Contract Writing for Transactional Lawyers

By Michael H. Rubin

It can be tough and demanding to rethink how to write contracts clearly and succinctly and then produce a result that accomplishes these goals. That hard task, however, pays off when the contract has to be enforced.

Real Estate

Lease Work Letters, Part Two: When the Tenant Performs the Work

By Marie A. Moore and G. Trippe Hawthorne

The article uses actual experiences of cities in Minnesota as examples of effective ways to promote and protect environmental concerns by using the common tool of development agreements.

Real Estate

Airbnb, VRBO, Short-Term Rentals Recent Developments, Enforcement Hurdles, and Mitigating Risks

By Ronald Garfield and Hunter S. Ross

This article examines the legal questions short-term rentals (STRs) pose for homeowners, tenants, property managers, homeowners associations, and local lawmakers attempting to regulate the disruptive industry.

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