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As a landlord, it is best practice to stay updated on current eviction procedures. This article outlines the general steps any residential landlord should take when evicting a tenant under two common circumstances: (1) when a tenant fails to pay ...

The environment for long-term care for the elderly, and particularly skilled nursing care, is complex, often emotionally charged, and marked by financial burdens on all sides. Skilled nursing care is costly to provide and thus expensive, and nursing homes and ...

In January, Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed the New York Housing Compact, which includes a series of proposals to address the purportedly low housing selection across New York. The New York Housing Compact aims to complement the Governor’s Housing Plan announced ...

To avoid the annoyance of troublesome processes and procedures, people and businesses sometimes choose to make decisions based on convenience. For some, convenience comes in the form of quick grants of authority to another for one-off business-related tasks. When authorization ...

An attorney’s or client’s quick perusal of online practitioners’ guides will find that most of those who opine on best practices for depositions encourage a conversational approach to probe for information. This approach is half correct. I offer an alternative. ...

All lawyers are bound by the ethical rules of the jurisdiction in which they practice and practicing ethically is an integral part of what it means to be a good attorney. One thing I learned about ethics after law school ...

By law, employers are required to provide employees with an ever-increasing amount of information, policies, notices, and acknowledgments throughout their employment. In New York these include but are not limited to a sexual harassment prevention policy, pay notices, airborne infectious ...

Many people understand their communications with their lawyers concerning legal matters are protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege. However, they may not be aware that the privilege also protects communications by one serving as an agent of either the ...

In most commercial litigation in the New York courts, the parties and their lawyers spend much effort and expense in discovery. “Discovery” is the pretrial process of obtaining evidence from the opposing party that is or may be relevant to ...

And I am, whatever you say I am. If I wasn’t, then why would I say I am? These words of one of the great American lyricists echoed the cold reality that confronted many investors who reasonably relied upon their ...

The “new normal” of practicing law remotely has its challenges. Zoom depositions are one of them.  Preparation is tedious. Computer screens notoriously freeze mid-sentence. And how about those lawyers who love using the limitations of virtual testimony to feed helpful ...

Subrogation is the principle by which an insurer, having paid losses of its insured, is placed in the position of its insured so that it may recover from the third party legally responsible for its loss. Lien rights are different ...