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Being on your co-op or condo board carries a lot of responsibility, liability, and, let's face it, headaches.
On Legal Talk, you'll meet New York's leading co-op and condo attorneys, who will offer advice and guidance for some of the peskiest problems facing boards today.
Twice a month, we invite a New York co-op or condo board director to ask a legal question, and we host a panel of attorneys who address it. This time, Bruce Meyers, a board director at a 34-unit co-op in Manhattan, asks how to deal with a cat who is defecating in a public space.
This episode, our panel of attorneys includes:
Dean M. Roberts, Norris McLaughlin & Marcus
Theresa Racht, Racht & Taffae
Twice a month, we invite a New York co-op or condo board director to ask a legal question, and we host a panel of attorneys who address it. This time, Carmen Kolodzey, a board president In Brooklyn, is dealing with a financial mess, including foreclosure, left by an owner who died.
This episode, our panel of attorneys includes:
Steven Troup, Tarter Krinsky & Drogin
Marc A. Landis, Phillips Nizer
Maria Beltrani, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz
Twice a month, we invite a New York co-op or condo board director to ask a legal question, and we host a panel of attorneys who address it. This time, Paul Hachmeyer, a board treasurer of an 86-unit co-op in Brooklyn, wonders if they can do anything to force their sponsor to complete the co-op conversion that was started in 1986. The sponsor still owns 31 apartments.
This episode, our panel of attorneys includes:
Dennis H. Greenstein, Seyfarth Shaw
Stuart M. Saft, Dewey & LeBoeuf
Allen M. Turek, Turek Roth Mester
Twice a month, we invite a New York co-op or condo board director to ask a legal question, and we host a panel of attorneys who address it. This time, a former board president from Brooklyn, who wishes to remain anonymous, is facing a confidentiality problem involving a board election.
This episode, our panel of attorneys includes:
David L. Berkey, Gallet Dreyer & Berkey
Kenneth R. Jacobs, Smith, Buss & Jacobs
Twice a month, we invite a New York co-op or condo board director to ask a legal question, and we host a panel of attorneys who address it. This time, Reynold Weidenaar, a board treasurer from Manhattan, is facing a contractor overcharge problem.
This episode, our panel includes:
Robert J. Braverman, Braverman & Associates
Stephen M. Lasser, formerly of Stark and Stark
Marcie Waterman Murray, Tane Waterman & Wurtzel
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