24 Jan, 2024 WeWork Wrestles to Amend Leases as Landlords Seek Clarity on Restructuring Plan By Douglas Rosner WeWork entered bankruptcy looking to reject or amend leases that were fueling billions of dollars in losses at the flexible-workspace...
22 Jan, 2024 Newly Launched NYC Office Conversion Accelerator Program By Frank Ditta George Evans Hara Perkins Andrew Shaw +1 more... Show less In August 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Department of City Planning announced three major initiatives to...
19 Jan, 2024 Restraining retainage: Drilling down into New York’s 5% retainage law and its impact on your project By Frank Ditta Jaclyn Grodin Alexander Berger In the world of construction, retainage is a portion of funds withheld from payments made to contractors and subcontractors until work is...
19 Jan, 2024 Girl Scout's council sells more than 500 acres in Prince George's County By Wendelin White Derick Wallace Goulston & Storrs attorneys Wendy White, Jennifer Bisgaier, and Derick Wallace represented the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital...
18 Jan, 2024 Thriving in 2024: Brick-and-mortar retail is back in fashion By Brendan Smith Jennifer Jones Karen O'Malley Lawrence Ferris +1 more... Show less As keen observers are already aware, reports of the “death of brick-and-mortar” retail have been greatly exaggerated. Neither the...
18 Jan, 2024 Mass. Bar Split As Pre-Pandemic 12-Person Juries Return By Jennifer Furey What a judge called the "last vestige" of COVID-era restrictions in Massachusetts state courts came to an end in the new year with the...
11 Jan, 2024 Supreme Court Tax Case Reveals Two Issues in Estate Protection By Michelle Porter Emily Berlin An estate tax case before the US Supreme Court underscores the importance of stock-purchase agreements and life insurance arrangements,...
11 Jan, 2024 Goulston & Storrs Prepares For Office, Leadership Changes By Michelle Porter It's a new era for Goulston & Storrs! Michelle Porter spoke with The Boston Globe about the firm's upcoming move to One Post Office...
09 Jan, 2024 NY Courts Revisit CPLR 3213 Statute’s Applicability to “Bad Boy” Guarantees By Adam Safer Financial institutions seeking to recover on promissory notes and unconditional guarantees can often obtain quick relief from CPLR 3213,...
08 Jan, 2024 Boston Adds Updated Inclusionary Development Policy to the Zoning Code—What Questions Remain? By Matthew Kiefer David Linhart In November 2023, the Boston Zoning Commission adopted Article 79 of the Boston Zoning Code, codifying for the first time long-studied...
08 Jan, 2024 How I Made Partner: Be ‘A Good Firm Citizen in Addition to a Good Lawyer,’ Says Jennifer Mikels of Goulston & Storrs By Jennifer Mikels How did she make partner? Jennifer Mikels discusses her trajectory to Goulston & Storrs director with Law.com. Learn more about her...
08 Jan, 2024 Renting in the wake of homeownership By David Linhart After the Great Depression, federal policy pushed single-family homeownership as the gold standard of housing through Federal Housing...
03 Jan, 2024 Foreclosure And Deficiency Judgments In Massachusetts And New York: Two States, Two Very Different Processes By Alexander Berger Charles Jacob III Rajinder Saini You just finished the foreclosure process but the asset securing the loan was not worth enough to recover the entire amount of the debt....