New York City Council is working on tackling the city’s affordable housing shortage by converting vacant office space, Natalie Sachmechi wrote in Crain’s New York Business yesterday. While the plan is largely supported by members of the real estate community, numerous barriers stand in the way. A state law enacted...
RPJ is proud to congratulate Partners Helen D. (Heidi) Reavis, Nicole Page and Alice K. Jump and Special Counsel Frederick R. (Fred) Fucci on their 2021 selection to Super Lawyers. We also congratulate Partner Jill Kahn Marshall and Associates Michelle Lamardo and Elizabeth Stork on their selection to Super Lawyers’...
Yesterday, RPJ Partner Alice Jump was quoted in Commercial Observer’s article entitled “New York Gov. Cuomo’s Crisis Cronies Won’t Be Easy to Dislodge, Either.” The piece discusses the network of advisors and other state officials who buried allegations of sexual harassment against Governor Andrew Cuomo, as revealed in a recent...
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive orders, commencing at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, effectively froze statutory and court imposed deadlines for all manner of legal proceedings. For civil proceedings, at least, that stoppage lasted through Nov. 3, 2020. In the months since, a few courts have had a chance to...
On March 30, Partner Alice Jump was quoted by Law360 in their article entitled, “How College Basketball Can Diversify Its Coaching Ranks.” The article discusses that in NCAA history, no woman has ever coached a Division I men’s basketball team. Male coaches, on the other hand, have the opportunity for...
On Monday, February 8, NJ.com published an article entitled, “An avalanche of evictions looms in N.J. Renters and landlords say it’s only going to get worse,” discussing the hardships tenants and small landlords are facing due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 81,199 eviction complaints were filed by landlords in New Jersey...
On January 13, Crain’s New York Business published the article “Cuomo’s commercial-to-residential conversion proposal faces major obstacles” which featured Partner Alice Jump. Governor Cuomo announced that he will propose legislation for developers and property owners to convert office buildings and hotels into apartments within a five-year period. More specifically, the...
COVID-19 has introduced tensions into the contractual relationship between vegetable growers and grocery retailers. Despite being open, many grocery stores tried to limit produce stock because they didn’t have enough, or consistent, labor to unload and process. That meant growers had to discard large percentages of their harvest and incur...
On April 17, Law360 published an article discussing the four major ways COVID-19 will change American workplaces for the long haul. The article addressed issues such as workplace requirements for personal protection equipment and the shift to teleworking as well as the other ways offices will adapt, such as office...
On April 8, RPJ Partner Alice Jump and Associate Liz Stork hosted a video webinar for Women Make Movies (WMM), the New York City-based leading distributor of independent films by and about women, to discuss aspects of the CARES Act most pertinent to filmmakers, production companies and other workers in...