Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. published an article in the fall about the creative methods its firm implemented to conduct closings during the spring and summer months. The transactional world continues to face many challenges with the increasing rise of new COVID-19 cases and the frigid winter months to come. This article is an update to the evolving methods that will be used amidst closing during the continued pandemic in New York. Temperatures are rapidly declining…

By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman The Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. landlord-tenant attorneys have been navigating the constant flow of changing laws and Executive Orders under COVID19 to serve tenants with notices and bring tenants to court, getting landlords their rents in spite of the eviction moratoriums. ADAM BAILEY These moratoriums, in one form or another, have been at all levels of government, federal, state, and city and all three branches of government: executive,…

New York is in one of its worst depressions since the American Revolution. Few landlords and commercial tenants have been completely immune from the governmentally imposed economic shutdown and COVID-19’s wrath. Not including what may have been negotiated in a commercial lease, there are three traditional theories under which commercial tenants could seek to assert entitlement to forgiveness of their rent: frustration of purpose, impossibility of performance, and force majeure. One of our partners recently participated…

In this matter, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. represented a husband and wife who had recently purchased a home in the Hamptons, and were being sued for a broker’s commission. The client purchasers were baffled as they had limited involvement with the broker who was suing them, and ultimately used another broker to consummate the transaction. The involvement of the suing broker/plaintiff in the action was limited to the following:  sending email listings to our clients…