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Ira Meislik Named To Joint Editorial Board For Real Property Acts

Published: March 29, 2010

Ira Meislik, managing principal of the Montclair, New Jersey law firm of Meislik & Meislik, has been appointed to the Uniform Law Commission’s Joint Editorial Board (JEB) for Real Property Acts. The JEB is responsible for monitoring new real property developments which may have an impact on Uniform State Laws and for making recommendations to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) for drafting new, proposed state laws. The JEB consists of twelve members drawn from the Uniform Laws Commission, the American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.

Ira Meislik has been frequently recognized for his professional achievements. In 2009 alone, he was named as part of a select group of 176 attorneys — The BTI Client Service All-Star Team — for delivering the absolute best client service to Fortune 1000 clients. Also in 2009, Ira Meislik was named by Real Estate New Jersey magazine as one of the Garden State’s top real estate attorneys. He also was selected for inclusion within the New Jersey Super Lawyers listing published inside the April 2010 issue of New Jersey Monthly magazine. Ira Meislik has been included in the Real Estate category each year since the Super Lawyer’s designation first appeared in New Jersey. In addition, he has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers In America®. In the United States, Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.

The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL), now in its 117th year, provides states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical areas of state statutory law. Conference members must be lawyers, qualified to practice law. They are practicing lawyers, judges, legislators and legislative staff and law professors, who have been appointed by state governments as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to research, draft and promote enactment of uniform state laws in areas of state law where uniformity is desirable and practical.

Super Lawyers Again!

Published: March 29, 2010

Karen Meislik, head of Meislik & Meislik’s Family Law Department, and Ira Meislik, the law firm’s managing principal, once again have been selected to be listed among the New Jersey Super Lawyers listing published inside the April 2010 issue of New Jersey Monthly magazine. Ira Meislik has been included in the Real Estate category each year since the Super Lawyer’s designation first appeared in New Jersey. Karen Meislik, first designated in 2007, is listed among her Family Law colleagues.

In 2009, Ira Meislik was named as part of a select group of 176 attorneys — The BTI Client Service All-Star Team — for delivering the absolute best client service to Fortune 1000 clients. In announcing this year’s All-Star Team, BTI reported: “Clients celebrate the uncanny ability of many of the 176 BTI Client Service All-Stars to instill a confidence and trust reserved only for the most valued and strategic business partners. This achievement is worthy of commemoration.” In addition, he has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers In America®. In the United States, Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.

Karen Meislik, a principal of the law firm of Meislik & Meislik, is one of fewer than 140 attorneys certified by the Supreme Court as a matrimonial attorney. She has been practicing family law, exclusively, for more than 20 years, providing advice and support to clients, and guiding them through the custody, divorce, separation, support systems, and judicial process. In 2007, she received the prestigious 2007 Partner in Hope award from Partners for Women and Justice.

Meislik & Meislik’s 13th Annual Review of Recent Business and Real Property Law Developments

Published: March 29, 2010

For the thirteenth year in a row, Meislik & Meislik presented its Annual Business and Real Estate Developments program for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (NJICLE). This extremely popular program reviewed important New Jersey court decisions made in 2009. Steven Gellerstein, Mark Morfopoulos, and Ira Meislik described approximately 50 of the most interesting cases of 2009 and the program materials included summaries of over 400 court opinions. Over the years, this program has been attended by thousands of attorneys from the Tri-State area. The case summary volumes furnished at these programs now cover more than 5,500 published and unpublished judicial decisions in the areas of business and real property law.

The program was presented in two locations this year – West Orange and Mount Laurel, New Jersey and was attended by over 125 attorneys from New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, many returning year after year. Meislik & Meislik’s annual review is one of the longest running and highest rated annual programs produced by the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education. Plans are already in place for the fourteenth Annual Program to take place in February, 2011.

Ira Meislik To Be Featured Speaker at the New Jersey Business Law Symposium 2010

Published: March 29, 2010

On April 9, 2010, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, in cooperation with the Business Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association will present its Business Law Symposium 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Ira Meislik, managing principal of the Montclair, New Jersey law firm of Meislik & Meislik, has been selected as a featured speaker and member of the faculty for this program and will present a program of “Hot Tips From the Real Estate Practitioner” in the morning plenary session and then an afternoon workshop on liability insurance concepts and issues for transactional lawyers.

In his morning presentation, Mr. Meislik will cover opportunities and issues arising out of changes in New Jersey’s environmental laws and regulations, developments in like-kind exchanges, New Jersey’s transfer tax laws, and the controversial changes to insurance certificates.
In 2010 alone, Mr. Meislik has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers In America® and as a New Jersey Super Lawyer. In the United States, Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The 2010 selections were based on more than 2.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. The Super Lawyer designation process employs a rigorous, multiphase process. Peer nominations and evaluations are combined with third party research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. In addition, in 2009 he was singled out by Real Estate New Jersey magazine as one of the Garden State’s top real estate attorneys. The complete article appears in its May/June 2009 edition. Also in 2009, Ira Meislik was named as part of a select group of 176 attorneys — The BTI Client Service All-Star Team — for delivering the absolute best client service to Fortune 1000 clients.

Be Ambiguous At Your Own Risk – Article by Mark Morfopoulos Published

Published: December 6, 2009

The title of Mark Morfopoulos’s newest article, just published in the Summer 2009 edition of the Shopping Center Legal Update, warns: “Be Ambiguous at Your Own Risk: Sloppy Draftsmanship Strikes Again!” In his article, the text of which can be found at: http://www.meislik.com/articles, Mark uses the 2008 Pennsylvania Superior Court decision in Giant Food Stores, LLC v. THF Silver Spring Development, L.P. to illustrate how litigation could have been avoided had the parties clearly written what they had actually agreed-upon. No one should ignore the warnings he gives.

Mark is an attorney in the Commercial Real Estate Group at Meislik & Meislik and has a special focus in the area of Retail Real Estate Law. He is a frequent contributor to legal and trade publications serving the commercial real estate market and has written on a wide range of topics from parking garage leases to SNDAs to professionalism. Mr. Morfopoulos formerly was an in-house attorney for a Fortune 500 company and, as such, regularly handled complex deals at domestic and international locations. While acting as in-house counsel he was instrumental in initiating a company-wide environmental audit program. As a private practitioner, Mark managed the Toys ‘R Us lease in Times Square, New York and negotiated a successful cable franchise contract with Verizon. Mark can be reached at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this e-mail address) or by calling (973) 783-3000.

Shopping Center Legal Update, published by the International Council of Shopping Centers, is the legal journal of the shopping center industry. Information about this publication and the Council can be obtained by contacting ICSC at 1221 Avenue of the Americas, 41st Floor, New York, New York 10020-1099.
Meislik & Meislik is a law firm focusing on commercial real estate matters with a special knowledge of Retail Real Estate Law. Although located in Montclair, New Jersey, it represents developers, investors, landlords, and single and multiple-location tenants locally as well as nationally and regionally. More about Meislik & Meislik can be found on its website at http://www.meislik.com.