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Recorded on: Jun. 29, 2012

KENT QIAN: I think we have reached the 10:15 mark, so that's the signal for me to transition to our next topic, which will be admission issues in federally subsidized housing. And to guide us through that, Meliah Schultzman will be the presenter for this part. Ms. Schultzman is an attorney at a national housing law project. She is involved in policy advocacy and litigation to advance the rights of tenants in federally subsidized housing programs ...

From the program: Catastrophe and the Law: What Lawyers Need to Know to Advise Clients to Prepare and Respond to Disasters 2013

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Catastrophe and the Law: What Lawyers Need to Know to Advise Clients to Prepare and Respond to Disasters 2013 recorded April, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [00:58:48]Real Estate Litigation, Property Law and Landlord-Tenant Law  [00:58:48]IntroductionI. Property and Landlord-Tenant Law relating to Casualties Differences in the law in the commercial and residential contexts Landlord’s duty to repair and ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL E. MEYER: OK, we're going to start in. Welcome back on Friday morning. It's my pleasure to introduce you to, in addition to John Wood and myself for today's first session, is Conrad Breece. And he's with a major law firm in San Francisco, and has a great deal of experience over the past 20 years in representing commercial landlords such as Embarcadero, and tenants such as IKEA. Did I say that right? And-- CONRAD D. BREECE: And, and then, ...

From the program: Negotiating Commercial Leases: How Owners & Corporate Occupants Can Avoid Costly Errors 2012

Released on: Nov. 2, 2012

Leases are the building blocks of value for all real estate, and whether your client is entering into a lease, acquiring a leasehold, purchasing a Ground Lease or investing in or lending on properties, knowing the “Commercial Lease” in and out is a must. Knowing the current commercial leasing market trends, hot topics and current schemes is the most important investment one can make. Leases are long-term investments and your client or ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

SPEAKER 1: I'm now delighted to introduce the chair of today's program, Michael E. Meyer. Michael Meyer is a partner at DLA Piper LLP where he specializes in real estate and project development. He has developed a national reputation as one of the leading leasing attorneys in the United States. He regularly represents leading financial institutions, accounting firms, and law firms in connection with major lease transactions throughout the United ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

MARTIN D. POLEVOY: Welcome back to the second session of the morning program. And we're about to hear from Ron Sernau and Rob Sorin, relating to successfully negotiating a contract of sale and what are the things one has to do to close a transaction. With us, we have, as I said, Ron Sernau, who's the co-chair of the real estate department of Proskauer Rose. Ron has represented some of the most prominent real estate developers in New York, as well ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Negotiating Real Estate Deals 2013 Recorded June, 2013 in New YorkClosing Complex Transactions [00:59:54] A. Successfully Closing Purchase and Sale Transactions Manage the due diligence process Shape Seller's representations and warranties Outline covenants of Purchaser and Seller to govern the contract period Establish conditions to the parties' obligations to close Manage the closing process Define default ...

From the program: Commercial Real Estate Institute (14th Annual)

Released on: Nov. 23, 2012

As commercial real estate slowly recovers from the recession, practitioners will need a broad skill set to achieve and maintain a viable real estate practice. This program helps practicing attorneys enhance traditional transactional skills, and develop workout and enforcement skills, so that they can help their clients regain their footing more quickly. Lecture Topics  [Total time 12:51:20] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MIKE MEYER: So thank you for being here, stay here. I need to bring up our two new panelists. And we're in for a great treat. What are you [INAUDIBLE]? OK. They're on their way up? They're making a grand entrance? It's like, let's make a deal. Come on down, it's 10 o'clock, 10:02, it's coming out of their time. But the two people who are walking in and making this grand entrance, we're really lucky to have. One is Alan Robin who, there's no better ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL MEYER: So with all of that said, that's a hell of an introduction for 45 minutes. But John, like myself, has served as an expert witness, an arbitrator, served as a judge pro tem, but basically he's a real estate lawyer. And all he does this deals. And he wrote a lease a long time ago that got his name in the Wall Street Journal. It was actually a complimentary article about him. But it was writing about how tough that lease was. And-- why ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL MEYER: A person who needs no introduction, so she's going to get no introduction, because we're don't to take up too much of her time. But she has been a practicing attorney for 30 years. All of our lawyers who are on the program are practicing lawyers. It's important that we have, it's called the Practising Law Institute, but to have people who actually do it every day and deal with it. And so Carol has been in private practice and was a ...

Recorded on: Jun. 29, 2012

CATHERINE BISHOP: OK, I'll put that down. KENT QIAN: All right. Welcome back from lunch everyone. I hope that you are all excited now to move on from the substantive grounds for eviction to the next part of eviction from federally-subsidized housing. Now we can talk about some of the procedural protections that tenants in federally-subsidized housing programs have. So this again, as I said in the beginning of the day, this part is going to have ...

Recorded on: Jun. 29, 2012

KENT: OK, welcome back, everyone. Now we're going to start a new chapter in our program-- eviction from federally-subsidized housing. And I'm sure this is a session that many of you came here for, so this part I will do together with Kathy Bishop. So eviction will have two parts. I think the more the morning part will cover the substantive grounds for eviction, so we'll be we take an hour for that. And then we'll take an hour in the afternoon when ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL E. MEYER: OK. We're going to start. And it's my pleasure to formally introduce to you Alan Whitson, who is going to talk about green leases. I've always known and admired Alan because he chaired the Model Green Lease Task Force which recently released a Model Green Lease, and I've dealt with him on numerous occasions. I don't think there's anybody who knows more about green leases than Alan. But when you read people's bios, which are all ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MIKE MEYER: OK, so we're going to begin the afternoon session, the final afternoon session. And it's my pleasure once again to introduce to you our two speakers which are, Theani Louskos and Rosie Reed. I never get your name right. Help me this time. THEANI C LOUSKOS: I'm Theani Louskos. ROSIE REES:And Rosie Rees THEANI C LOUSKOS: This is Rosie Rees. And this is Mike Morris, oh, Meyer. MIKE MEYER: Works for me. And they're going to talk-- and ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL MEYER: --start the afternoon session, and we're lucky to have with us Marc Maiona, who is one of the managing members of CyberLease. He started his commercial real estate career with C&W, and in 1994 joined CyberLease. You really formulated, right? MARC MAIONA: No. Terry Barger. MICHAEL MEYER: It was Terry Barger? MARC MAIONA: Yeah, Terry Barger. MICHAEL MEYER: So there's two people at CyberLease that I deal with. One is Terry and ...

Recorded on: Jun. 29, 2012

KENT QIAN: So maybe we should move on to the next session on Housing Choice Voucher Terminations? Again, we are using Section 8 Voucher and Housing Choice Voucher interchangeably. So if you're wondering is there a difference between Section 8 Vouchers and Housing Choice Vouchers, the answer is no. Housing Choice Voucher is simply the more formal name the HUD uses for what people commonly called Section 8 Vouchers. But essentially, they are the same ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL E. MEYER: So here's the person I was referring to who has agreed to take the last slot on a Friday afternoon to talk about insurance. His name is Jay Paxton. He's one of the leading lawyers in the state of California. He's done things that make me envious. For example, he represented Carnegie Mellon University in establishing its West Coast campus on a ground lease land at the NASA Ames Research Park, and represents the University of California ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC YOUNG: Well, I think we'll go ahead and get started with this afternoon's sessions. It's my great pleasure to introduce Joan Story. Joan is a partner at Sheppard Mullin. Her practice there emphasizes real estate investment, financing, and leasing transactions. Her clients include developers, institutional and foreign investors, corporate real estate users, pension funds, and pension fund advisers. One of Joan's main clients is DHL, whom she's ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2012

CHANCELA AL-MANSOUR: So we're basically right on time to start the very beginning of Navigating Anti-Discrimination Laws and Housing, and I turn the platform over to Stephanie Haffner. STEPHANIE HAFFNER: So hello everyone who's in the room with us and to folks who are also at Hastings and elsewhere. Thank you for the introduction, Chancela. I am talking to you first about basic fair housing law, so fair housing 101-- as an introduction to the fair ...

From the program: Representing Tenants in Unlawful Detainer Actions in San Francisco 2012 (Free)

Released on: Dec. 27, 2012

For low-income families who often do not have the benefit of legal counsel, eviction can mean homelessness. Most are unrepresented.  Won’t you volunteer to help those in our community who are most vulnerable?  Get the legal training you need in this program and then sign up with The Volunteer Legal Services Program of The Bar Association of San Francisco and make a difference. Lecture Topics  [Total time 03:10:50] Segments ...

Recorded on: Jun. 29, 2012

KENT QIAN: And then let me just introduce you to the first speaker that we have today. Catherine Bishop is the senior attorney with the National Housing Law Project. She's one most experienced people in federally subsidized housing. She has over 30 years experience advocating on behalf of tenants and tenants rights in federally subsidized house. I know I have come to her office many, many times to ask questions about what tenants rights are in any ...

From the program: Pathways to Justice 2012: Special Housing Updates (Free)

Released on: Jun. 22, 2012

PLI has joined with the State Bar of California Office of Legal Services to share special sessions from the 2012 Pathways to Justice Conference.  The sessions will focus on hot topics in housing law, including affordable housing, tenant relocation and replacement housing in the wake of the foreclosure and economic crises, and recent developments in fair housing and anti-discrimination laws, litigation, and enforcement.  The panelists are ...

Recorded on: Jun. 29, 2012

KENT: So thank you for staying with us through to the fourth hour. This hour we have Gideon Anders to present on rural housing issues. Gideon Anders is a senior attorney with the National Housing Law Project. He's also essentially the nation's recognized expert on rural housing service related issues, and essentially the number one person, or the go to person, on RHS related multifamily and single family issues. Gideon. GIDEON ANDERS: Thank you, ...

From the program: Subsidized Housing Basics 2012 (Free)

Released on: Jul. 12, 2012

This substantive training provides a comprehensive overview of the federal housing programs, recent changes, current trends, and issues facing practitioners.  The training is designed for advocates with limited housing experience, but practitioners at all experience levels should be able to benefit from this training.  The panelists are noted experts in housing law who will cover a broad-ranged of topics in federally-subsidized housing with ...