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Super Lawyers Again!

Published: March 22, 2009

Karen Meislik and Ira Meislik have each been selected to be listed among the New Jersey Super Lawyers listing published inside the April 2009 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.

These selections are the result of a rigorous multistep selection process. After candidates are nominated in a statewide peer selection process, others are added following a review of legal trade publications and professional databases. Then, each candidate is evaluated based on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement, including: transactions, experience, honors and awards, pro bono activity, scholarly lectures and writings, and bar activities. Then, blue ribbon panels in more than 70 areas of practice evaluate candidates. After background checks are completed, the final list represents less than 5% of the attorneys in NJ.

Mark Morfopoulos is Insider Source for Article on Early Occupancy Agreements

Published: March 15, 2009

The March, 2009 edition of Commercial Lease Law Insider looked to Mark Morfopoulos as the source for its feature article: “Sign Early Occupancy Agreement Before Allowing Pre-Lease Work.” It isn’t an ideal situation for a landlord to let its prospective tenant into space before a lease is signed, but sometimes the business exigencies create such a situation. Mark provided the newsletter’s editors with valuable tips for this timely subject and for their article.

Commercial Lease Law Insider is a “Practical, Plain-English Newsletter for Owners, Managers, Attorneys, and Other Real Estate Professionals.” It is published monthly by the Vendome Group, LLC and subscriptions can be obtained at www.vendomegrp.com.

Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal Looks to Our Attorneys

Published: March 15, 2009

The Shopping Centers section of the March 13, 2009 edition of Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal features Ira Meislik and Mark Morfopoulos as its “Retail Experts.” There, Ira and Mark write about “Seven ways SNDA agreements can modify your lease.” Though addressed primarily to retail tenants, all tenants, landlords, and lenders will find the seven tips and the underlying analysis useful.

A copy of the Article is on the Meislik & Meislik web site and can be seen by clicking here: Get SNDA Article.

Ira Meislik Named for Excellence in Delivery of Client Services

Published: March 15, 2009

Ira Meislik, managing principal of the Montclair, New Jersey law firm of Meislik & Meislik has been named to the 2009 BTI Client Service All-Star Team.

The BTI Client Service All-Star Team celebrates the 176 attorneys identified by Fortune 1000 companies as providing outstanding client service. According to BTI, this year’s Client Service All-Stars are honored for their ability to deliver service in a way that adds more value to the client relationship. BTI conducted over 270 individual interviews with corporate counsel at Fortune 1000 and other large organizations. BTI probed corporate executives on every aspect of law firm relationships, including how law firms responded to their needs and priorities, which law firms they rely on and, perhaps most importantly, the quality of legal service they receive. Without prompting those executives, BTI collected nominations for its 2009 roster of elite attorneys heralded for exceptional client service.

According to BTI’s research, Ira Meislik was named as part of a select group of 176 attorneys — The BTI Client Service All-Star Team — 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.”

Meislik & Meislik, a firm whose credo is “Getting the Deal Done,” focuses on business and commercial real estate transactions. According to Ira Meislik, “we are thrilled to join the Client Service All-Star Team together with 175 other attorneys, virtually all of whom belong the country’s largest national and international law firms. We may be the smallest firm represented on this year’s list, but we stand ready, day after day, to provide the ‘absolute best in client service.’”

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 and commercial real estate. 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.

Boston-based BTI Consulting provides research, analysis, benchmarking, and consulting services to key buyers of professional services at the world’s largest and best run companies, including regularly interviewing more than 6,000 individuals with such companies on how they acquire and manage outside legal services. It conducts the only continuous benchmarking market study in the legal services industry based on 1,900 independent interviews with General Counsel and key decision makers that hire law firms.

Mark Morfopoulos’ Creative Solution Published in Retail Law Strategist

Published: March 9, 2009

“Read Your Lease Before You Send a Letter Exercising Important Rights,” a retail leasing article by Mark Morfopoulos, has been published in the February 2009 edition of Retail Law Strategist, as the newsletter’s bi-monthly “Creative Solution.” 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.

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’s practice focus is on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, with particular emphasis on Retail Real Estate Law.

Retail Law Strategist, a publication of the International Council of Shopping Centers, is a monthly legal newsletter that offers practical solutions for shopping center professionals. Every item, every solution, every strategy and tactic the Retail Law Strategist is tightly focused on shopping center solutions.

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 throughout the country. More about Meislik & Meislik can be found on its website at www.meislik.com.