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Ruminations Blog – a Smashing Success

Published: October 17, 2011

Meislik & Meislik’s recently launched Ruminations – a Retail Real Estate Law Blog has become a smashing success. Since its launch on June 28, less than four months ago, it has been the site of 30 postings and has garnered several hundred comments. Subscriptions (free) arrive every day.

Thus far, it has covered a wide range of topics. While focused on retail real estate issues, many topics are equally applicable to other real estate areas, and are always interesting. Ruminations has tackled such topics as exclusive use clauses, CAM and operating expenses, approaches to negotiation, the duty of a landlord to maintain its property, insurance, renewal options, the Texas margin tax, measuring floor area, Section 1031 exchanges, and many, many more.

Through LinkedIn, the blog has enjoyed international exposure, garnering comments from India, England, Pakistan, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Comments pour in from throughout the United States, coming from property managers, tenant and landlord representatives, attorneys, brokers, and others. Many of the blog entries have sparked heated debates among the readers.

Currently scheduled to post at least one topic each week, future Ruminations entries can be expected to touch on loss payee status under insurance policies, notice issues, negotiation by e-mail, the intentional use of ambiguity, tenant allowance issues, misnamed parties, and many similar and intriguing issues.

Current and past postings can be found at www.retailrealestatelaw.com, where readers can also subscribe to receive email notice of new postings.

Ira Meislik Addresses the Inn of Transactional Counsel

Published: October 12, 2011

On October 11, 2011, Ira Meislik appeared before the Essex-Morris County chapter of the Inn of Transactional Counsel, explaining the ins and outs of insurance and what attorneys need to know, but don’t know, about this topic. In addition to addressing such opaque concepts as contractual liability insurance, loss payee status, waivers of subrogation, and the uselessness of certificates of insurance, Mr. Meislik was peppered with dozens of questions peppered from an enthusiastic audience. The Inn, formed in 2001, consists of a group of New Jersey’s prominent business lawyers and was formed for the mentoring of beginning attorneys. The program is designed to develop lawyering skills in the next generation of the New Jersey Bar. According to the Inn’s leaders, Mr. Meislik’s presentation was the best one ever presented to the Inn. A similar program was presented earlier in 2011 to the Bergen-Hudson chapter of this organization.

More about the Inn of Transactional Counsel can be found at www.innsofcourt.org.

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, Ira Meislik has twice been named by Real Estate New Jersey magazine as one of the Garden State’s top real estate attorneys. He has been selected to The Best Lawyers In America® and has been selected for inclusion within the New Jersey Super Lawyers listing published inside the April 2011 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.

Ira Meislik’s practice is concentrated in two areas – Business Law and Commercial Real Estate Law. His business law practice covers general business, commercial, and transactional matters. In this area, he provides business counseling advice and handles business formations, acquisitions, mergers, and contracts. His commercial real estate practice focuses on the needs of landlords and tenants primarily within shopping centers and office properties. In addition, he has extensive experience in the acquisition, disposition, and financing of real property. He can be reached at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this e-mail address) or at (973) 744-0288.

Ira Meislik Again Selected To The Best Lawyers In America®

Published: October 9, 2011

Ira Meislik, managing principal of the Montclair, New Jersey law firm of Meislik & Meislik, has again 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 soon to be released 18th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.1 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. This publication has been described by The American Lawyer as “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

Meislik & Meislik, a firm whose credo is “Getting the Deal Done,” focuses on business and commercial real estate transactions. When asked about his selection, Ira Meislik replied, “I am thrilled to be named again as one of New Jersey’s top real estate attorneys and will continue to do everything I can do to deserve such recognition.”

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, Ira Meislik has twice been 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 2011 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.

Ira Meislik’s practice is concentrated in two areas – Business Law and Commercial Real Estate Law. His business law practice covers general business, commercial, and transactional matters. In this area, he provides business counseling advice and handles business formations, acquisitions, mergers, and contracts. His commercial real estate practice focuses on the needs of landlords and tenants primarily within shopping centers and office properties. In addition, he has extensive experience in the acquisition, disposition, and financing of real property.

Meislik & Meislik is a law firm focusing on business law and commercial real estate law. It represents national and local businesses (large and small), developers, investors, landlords, and single and multiple-location tenants in a full range of transaction, from basic to complex. More about Meislik & Meislik can be found on its website at www.meislik.com.

Meislik & Meislik’s 15th Annual Review of Recent Business and Real Property Law Developments

Published: October 9, 2011

For the fifteenth year in a row, Meislik & Meislik will present its Annual Business and Real Estate Developments program for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (NJICLE). This extremely popular program will review important New Jersey court decisions rendered in 2011. Steven Gellerstein and Ira Meislik will describe and interpret approximately 50 of the most interesting cases of 2011 and the program materials will include summaries of more than 400 court opinions. Over the years, this program has been attended by thousands of attorneys from the Tri-State area, many returning year after year. The case summary volumes furnished at these programs now cover more than 6,500 published and unpublished judicial decisions in the areas of business and real property law.

The program will be presented at two locations this year – in Fairfield, New Jersey at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Thursday, February 23, 2012 from 5:00 pm until 8:30 pm, and then again on Tuesday, February 28 in Mount Laurel, New Jersey at the Westin Hotel from 5:00 pm until 8:30 pm. Registration materials and additional information can be obtained at: Seminar Information. 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.

Gail Pester Joins Meislik & Meislik

Published: October 7, 2011

Gail Pester, an attorney with nineteen years of experience, has joined the professional team at the law form of Meislik & Meislik in Montclair, New Jersey. Her practice is focused on commercial real estate and business transactions, including the acquisition and sale of real property, commercial lending, drafting and negotiating retail and office leases, drafting and negotiating business contracts, and entity formation and corporate governance. She is also involved in the outdoor advertising industry, particularly the selling and leasing of billboard properties. Gail currently serves as legal counselor with the Small Business Development Center at Raritan Valley Community College.

Gail earned her law degree, with Honors, from George Washington University, one of the most competitive law schools in the country. While there, she was a member of its prestigious Law Review, and was inducted into its chapter of the Order of the Coif, an honorary scholastic society.

Ms. Pester can be reached by email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this e-mail address) or by calling her directly at 973.842.4072. Additional information about Gail and about Meislik & Meislik is available at www.meislik.com.