Real Estate

  • February 18, 2025

    Home Insurer Off The Hook In $750K Policy Lapse Dispute

    A Washington federal judge has tossed a suit seeking $750,000 in coverage from two Progressive units after a fire severely damaged a home, saying the homeowners had let the coverage expire by not paying premiums, even though the insurer's renewal notice was "not a paragon of clarity."

  • February 18, 2025

    Torrent Of Eaton Fire Suits Call For Organization, Judge Says

    A Los Angeles judge said Tuesday that discovery into the cause of last month's devastating Eaton Fire should wait until dozens of related suits against Southern California Edison have been organized and can "proceed efficiently and fairly."

  • February 18, 2025

    Airbnb, Owners Sue New Orleans Over Short-Term Ordinances

    Airbnb and a group of New Orleans property owners have brought a new lawsuit against the city challenging 2023 restrictions on short-term rentals and a set of requirements passed in October mandating that platforms verify that rental hosts are following city rules.

  • February 18, 2025

    Colo. Property Owner Sued For Substandard Conditions

    A proposed class of Denver tenants has claimed in Colorado state court that property manager Centerspace LP neglected its apartment building to the point that it became uninhabitable over the previous three years.

  • February 18, 2025

    Calif. Insurance Chief Asks State Farm To Justify Rate Hikes

    California's insurance commissioner asked State Farm General Insurance Co. to appear for an in-person "informal conference" later this month over its request for emergency rate hikes in the wake of the deadly Los Angeles wildfires in January, saying the insurer has not yet justified the move.

  • February 18, 2025

    NY Broadens Tax Break Guidelines For Development Projects

    New York state broadened guidelines for determining whether some economic development projects may be eligible for property and sales tax exemptions based on the level of a project's on-site child care services under clarifying legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.

  • February 18, 2025

    Jones Day Leads Sherwin-Williams On $1.15B Brazil Paint Buy

    Jones Day is guiding Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams Co. on a new deal to buy the Brazilian architectural paints business of BASF Group, advised by Linklaters and Machado Meyer, for $1.15 billion in cash.

  • February 18, 2025

    Cozen O'Connor Adds Father-Daughter Real Estate Duo

    Cozen O'Connor is expanding its real estate services in the Philadelphia office by adding a father-daughter duo that includes an attorney with more than two decades of experience who moved his practice after 19 years with Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.

  • February 18, 2025

    Denver Landlord Says Defunct Moye White Owes Nearly $4M

    A Denver landlord accused defunct law firm Moye White LLP in Colorado state court of owing almost $4 million after the law firm closed down in 2024.

  • February 18, 2025

    Adams, Feds Ordered To Explain Dismissal Bid At Hearing

    A Manhattan federal judge demanded details Tuesday and scheduled a hearing after the Justice Department asked to dismiss criminal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, signaling that the court would not rubber-stamp the request following allegations of a corrupt bargain and mass resignations of prosecutors in protest.

  • February 18, 2025

    Dechert, Paul Hastings Guide Barings' Takeover Of Artemis

    Barings, advised by Dechert LLP, inked an agreement to snap up Paul Hastings LLP-led Artemis Real Estate Partners, an investment firm managing over $11 billion of assets, according to a Tuesday announcement.

  • February 15, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: Practice Pivot, Tariff Tax, Lennar's Lawyers

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including the latest shifts in real estate law practice, a Big Law leader's predictions for a looming tariff "tax" debate, and a look at the legal talent behind homebuilder Lennar Corp.'s $5.8 billion spinoff.

  • February 14, 2025

    Morgan & Morgan Atty Accused Of Setting Up Rape Charges

    Three men, including a real estate executive and a broker, facing sexual assault charges are asking a Florida court to force prosecutors to hand over reports by the victim's attorney at Morgan & Morgan PA, who the defendants say became part of the prosecution team and helped bring the charges.

  • February 14, 2025

    Murkowski Urges Senate To Shield Tribes From Trump Orders

    Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, has urged lawmakers to join her in responding to possible negative effects of President Donald Trump's executive orders on federal funding that Indigenous tribes receive.

  • February 14, 2025

    NJ Appeals Court Confirms Officials' Votes Were Conflicted

    A New Jersey state appeals court on Friday ruled a trial court was right to find local officials were in conflict when they voted to terminate an attorney because the trio had defamed him during their campaigns.

  • February 14, 2025

    Maine Judge Denies Challenge To Corporate Transparency Act

    A Maine federal judge upheld the Corporate Transparency Act, rejecting one of several challenges across federal courts claiming Congress lacked the power to require companies to disclose their real owners.

  • February 14, 2025

    Alston & Bird Leads PE-Backed Michigan Bank's $151M IPO

    Shares of private equity-backed Northpointe Bancshares Inc. began trading Friday after the Michigan bank priced an upsized $151 million initial public offering below its marketed range, represented by Alston & Bird LLP and underwriters counsel Squire Patton Boggs LLP.

  • February 14, 2025

    Munger Tolles Gets $10M Retainer To Rep LA In Fire Litigation

    Munger Tolles & Olson LLP has signed a $10 million retainer agreement to represent the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in a series of lawsuits alleging it irresponsibly left a local reservoir empty ahead of last month's devastating Palisades Fire.

  • February 14, 2025

    Tulsa County 'On Notice' In Jurisdiction Dispute, Suit Says

    The Muscogee (Creek) Nation is asking a federal district court to block Tulsa County, Oklahoma, its sheriff and a district attorney from asserting criminal jurisdiction on its reservation, arguing they continue to defy a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that held that they lack such authority.

  • February 14, 2025

    Adams Case Careens Toward 'Messy' Hearing, Experts Say

    The Manhattan federal judge overseeing the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is unlikely to rubber stamp a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to toss the case and may instead hold a hearing on the matter, which could get "messy" and "embarrassing," experts say.

  • February 14, 2025

    Adams Case Fiasco 'Unparalleled' In Modern US History

    The mass resignation of federal prosecutors refusing to obey a Trump administration directive to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is "unprecedented," "crazy" and "very troubling," according to law professors and former prosecutors.

  • February 14, 2025

    DOJ Files Motion To Drop Adams Case After Prosecutors Exit

    The U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, following a flood of resignations by government lawyers who defied a top DOJ official's orders to drop the charges for political reasons.

  • February 14, 2025

    Ex-JPMorgan Atty Pleads Guilty To NYC Housing Fraud

    A one-time Bronx, New York, prosecutor and former JPMorgan Chase & Co. assistant general counsel pled guilty along with two relatives to a scheme to fraudulently obtain affordable housing units and benefits, state investigators announced Friday.

  • February 14, 2025

    Akerman Brings On GC For Land Developer In Miami

    Akerman LLP has expanded its real estate practice in Miami with a partner who formerly served as general counsel for the land developer of a master-planned community in South Florida.

  • February 14, 2025

    Simpson Guides KKR On $850M-Plus Real Estate Credit Fund

    Global investment giant KKR, advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, announced on Friday it had clinched its second opportunistic real estate credit fund, raising over $850 million for a dedicated strategy of investments in senior loans and real estate securities in the U.S. and Western Europe.

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.

  • Applying High Court's Domestic Corruption Rulings To FCPA

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the domestic corruption statutes in three decisions over the past year and a half, it’s worth evaluating whether these rulings may have an impact on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, and if attorneys can use the court’s reasoning in international bribery cases, says James Koukios at MoFo.

  • Climate Among Many Factors Driving Up RE Insurance Costs

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    A proactive approach to risk management may determine the viability of the U.S. commercial real estate sector as weather crises and other factors drive insurance costs higher, says Ulrick Matsunaga at Crosbie Gliner.

  • Proposed Mortgage Assistance Rule: Tips For Servicers

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    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent proposal to alter Regulation X mortgage servicing procedures to broadly construe requests for assistance, and stay foreclosure proceedings during loss mitigation review, will, if finalized, require mortgage servicers to make notable procedural changes to comply, says Louis Manetti at Locke Lord.

  • How Multifamily Property Owners Can Plan For The EV Future

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    As the electric vehicle market expands, and federal and state incentives and mandates intended to promote EV use come into effect, owners and operators of multifamily residential properties should be prepared to meet the growing demand for onsite EV charging infrastructure, say Sydney Tucker and Andreas Wokutch at Frost Brown.

  • Bid Protest Spotlight: Debriefings, Timeliness, Documentation

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    ​James Tucker at MoFo examines three recent decisions from the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims concerning an agency's decision not to hold post-award discussions, a timeliness trap in certain Federal Supply Schedule procurements and the importance of providing contemporaneous documentation in price-evaluation protests.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • Fla. Insurer-Breach Cases Split On Unrepaired Property Issue

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    A Florida appellate court's recent decision in Universal v. Qureshi is directly at odds with a 2020 decision from another Florida appellate court, and raises important questions for policyholders and insurers about the proper measure of damages in breach claims involving unrepaired property, say Andrea DeField and Yaniel Abreu at Hunton.

  • Series

    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.

  • A Look At Recent Case Law On Expedited Judgment In NY

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    A number of recent New York state court decisions clarify and refine the contours surrounding Civil Practice Law and Rule 3213, providing landlords, lenders and other payees guidance on how to seek accelerated judgment in certain litigation, says Alexander Lycoyannis at Holland & Knight.

  • Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs

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    The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.

  • Series

    Colorado Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3

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    In the third quarter of 2024, Colorado's banking and financial services sector faced both regulatory updates and changes to state law due to recent federal court decisions — with consequences for local governments, mortgage lenders, state-chartered trust companies and federally chartered lenders serving Colorado consumers, says Sarah Auchterlonie at Brownstein Hyatt.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Series

    In The CFPB Playbook: No Lazy, Hazy Days Of Summer

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    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is headed for a brisk fall season, on the heels of a heated summer, which included the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that the CFPB funding structure is constitutional, and in advance of the November election, says Eamonn Moran at Holland & Knight.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

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