Strategy & Gamesmanship Getting the Results You Want in Landlord and Tenant Law

Description:

This courses focuses on the strategy and gamesmanship that will help you to get the results you want when practicing in the landlord and tenant area. For example -- when to start litigation, trial readiness, adjournments, traverse hearings, motion practice, witnesses, "good guy" guarantees, how to prepare for trial, and how to draft a solid stipulation of settlement.

Lecturers:

• Jay Itkowitz, Michelle Maratto

Jay Itkowitz, Michelle Maratto

Jay Itkowitz is the founding partner of Itkowitz & Harwood, an AV-rated, boutique law firm specializing in complex commercial litigation and transactions that has been serving the real estate industry in New York City for over twenty years.  Mr. Itkowitz is admitted to practice in New York State, the U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals 2d Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.  Mr. Itkowitz graduated from New York Law School with honors in 1977, where he published a note in the Law Review.

Mr. Itkowitz’s firm has cleared several buildings for major capital projects.  I&H was lead counsel, for example, in evicting tenants from Grand Central Station in the mid 1990's so that its historic renovation could be commenced. Other "de-leasing" projects include clearing: a building at 750 Lexington Avenue for Cohen Bros. Real Estate Corp.; the New York City headquarters of the Directors Guild of America, Inc.; the New York Coliseum for the Triborough Bridge And Tunnel Authority; and a building on 11th Avenue in Manhattan containing approximately 150 sub-tenants for Charles Benenson & Preston R. Tisch.

Mr. Itkowitz is also a managing partner of a number of residential and commercial real estate projects.  He is currently building a regional company offering state-of-the-art office suites for attorneys and other professionals, which has just opened a new facility on the top floor of 305 Broadway, New York, New York.  He is also currently constructing a condominium building in Brooklyn, New York.

Mr. Itkowitz has been an adjunct professor of legal writing at New York Law School and has authored many articles and given many lectures on real estate issues, including for Lorman Education Services, the Practicing Law Institute, the New York State Bar Association, and the Rent Stabilization Association.  Mr. Itkowitz and the I&H partners authored a chapter on lease remedy clauses for the New York State Bar Association Commercial Leasing Manual.

Mr. Itkowitz, a former investigative journalist for newspapers in the New York Metropolitan Area, began his legal career as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York and has clerked for a U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York and a Kings County Supreme Court Judge.  Mr. Itkowitz specializes in complex trial work.

Mr. Itkowitz can be contacted at (212) 822-1400 ext. 102 or at (646) 996-6597 or at jitkowitz@itkowitz.com.  The web site of Itkowitz & Harwood is www.itkowitz.com.

Michelle Maratto is a partner in the firm of Itkowitz & Harwood.  Ms. Maratto is admitted to practice in New York and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Ms. Maratto received her B.A. from Union College and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.  Ms. Maratto has been a faculty member for continuing legal education programs in the area of real estate for Lorman Education Services, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Practicing Law Institute, and the New York State Bar Association, Real Property Section, Commercial Leasing Committee.  Ms. Maratto authored a manual on Evictions in New York City for Lorman Education services and co-authored a chapter on lease remedy clauses for the New York State Bar Association Commercial Leasing Manual.  Ms. Maratto has been practicing in the area of residential and commercial landlord and tenant law in the City of New York for almost fifteen years.  She also does real estate related litigation, appellate work and transactional work.  She is active in the Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyer’s Project.  Michelle Maratto can be contacted at (212) 822-1400 x117 or at mmaratto@itkowitz.com.  The web site of Itkowitz & Harwood is www.itkowitz.com. 

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Strategy & Gamesmanship Getting the Results You Want in Landlord and Tenant Law