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DECISION TIME: 10-YEAR CAMPUS PLAN UPDATE
February 9, 2012
Alexis Lockshin on Gtown Univ Campus Plan Update
Alexis Lockshin on Gtown Univ Campus Plan Update

Tonight (Thursday Feb.

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WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH A DESERTED SHOPPING MALL?
February 8, 2012
Alexis Lockshin on Reinventing Vacant Shopping Malls - From Dog Runs to Medical
Alexis Lockshin on Reinventing Vacant Shopping Malls - From Dog Runs to Medical Clinics, Casinos & More

WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH A DESERTED SHOPPING MALL?  

Creative Solutions for Vacant Mall Space: From Dog Runs to Medical Clinics, Casinos and More... The New Trend of Viewing Malls as “Space” Rather than Simply “Retail”

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Scope of Arbitration Clause Does Not Extend to Ensuing Action to Collect Award - Giron v. Dodds
February 1, 2012
Alexis Lockshin on Giron v. Dodds, DC Ct of Appeals Case - Scope of Arbitration
Alexis Lockshin on Giron v. Dodds, DC Ct of Appeals Case - Scope of Arbitration Agreements

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals (DC’s highest court) recently held that piercing the corporate veil, i.e., disregarding the corporate entity (“PCV”) to collect on an arbitration award is outside the scope of an arbitration clause.  In a Jan.

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John Bergin Argues in Pennsylvania Appellate Court to Affirm Defense Verdict in $20M MLB Stadium Case
January 31, 2012

As discussed in SLS’s December 8th post, John Bergin represented two national general contractors/ construction managers who had formed a joint-venture to design and construct a Major League Baseball Stadium.  Plaintiff – the alleged assignee of a subcontractor on the project – had sued the joint venture for more than $20 million.  John secured a complete defense verdict for the joint venture after more than eight years of litigation, a six-week trial, and two post-trial legal memoranda. The Plaintiff appealed that verdict. 

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BYE-BYE WHITE FLINT... UPDATED... SO-LONG BLOOMIES: Bloomingdale’s at White Flint Mall To Close this Spring - Why this Location?
January 23, 2012
Alexis Lockshin on White Flint Mall Redevelopment / Closing of Bloomingdale's

BYE-BYE WHITE FLINT… UPDATED

SO-LONG BLOOMIES: Bloomingdale’s at White Flint Mall To Close this Spring - Why this Location?

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Maryland Foreclosure Sale Purchasers Are Liable For Condo Fees, Dues, and Assessments From Date of Sale, Not Date of Settlement
January 17, 2012
Alexis Lockshin on Maryland Court Opinion, Campbell v. Bayside Condominium

Campbell v. Bayside Condominium Maryland Foreclosure Sale Purchasers Are Liable For Condominium Fees, Dues, and Assessments From Date Of Foreclosure Sale (i.e., even before ratification of the sale and conveyance of the deed).

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ENFORCEABILITY OF ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS – Who Decides?
January 11, 2012
John Bergin and Kelley Halliburton

Contracts covering construction disputes often require binding arbitration. Many of these contracts contain language allowing the arbitrator to decide the enforceability of the agreement to arbitrate (the delegation provision).  But some courts have been removing this decision from arbitrators and making the arbitration agreement’s enforceability a question for judicial review. 

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SLS in Corporate Counsel Magazine
January 5, 2012
Judah Lifschitz & Laura Fraher in the December 2011 Edition of Corporate Counsel Magazine

The December 22, 2011 edition of Corporate Counsel Magazine featured the Article:  "From the Experts:  Is Your Company Tweeting its Way into Trouble?" co-authored by Judah Lifschitz and Laura Fraher of SLS.  The article discusses the emerging risks - both business and legal - that come from the explosion of social media use and the expanding threat of "E-trouble" to businesses that comes along with it.

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John Bergin Defends Defense Verdict in $20 Million MLB Stadium Case on Appeal
December 8, 2011
John Bergin on recent Major League Baseball stadium case

SLS’s John Bergin obtained a defense verdict in a case involving the construction of a Major League Baseball Stadium after more than eight years of litigation, a six-week trial, and two rounds of post-trial briefs.  Plaintiff appealed that verdict and John recently filed a Brief explaining in detail why the Appellate Court should confirm it.  John represented two national general contractors and construction managers who had formed a joint-venture to design and construct the stadium.  Plaintiff – the alleged assignee of one of their subcontractors – sued the

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SQUARE 54 – PART II??? GW University’s Redevelopment of Pennsylvania Avenue
November 22, 2011
Alexis Lockshin on GW’s Redevelopment of Pennsylvania Avenue

GW University is moving ahead with redevelopment plans outlined in the 2007 Foggy Bottom Campus Plan. 

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Did You Know . . .

Members of the SLS trial group have tried in excess of 50 jury trials and 75 bench trials?
The SLS construction group has worked on sports stadiums across the country including Orioles Park in Baltimore and Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati?
The SLS construction group has worked on power plant projects across the country?
In 2007 SLS was selected for an Honorable Mention as one of the Best Places To Work in Washington DC?
Ron Shapiro, Steve Schram and Judd Lifschitz have all been selected as SuperLawyers by Law and Politics?
The SLS office building is an historic townhouse constructed in the late 1800s?
SLS has been selected by Martindale-Hubbell as a Preeminent Law Firm?
SLS trial lawyers have argued appeals in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal for the 4th, 5th, 9th, D.C. and Federal Circuit?
SLS trial lawyers have been lead trial counsel in cases in Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia, - to name just a few?
Virtually all the cases that SLS trial lawyers mediated have been favorably settled at mediation?

The transactional group at SLS was lead counsel on one of the largest, most complex mixed-use projects in downtown Washington, DC involving 4 lenders and 6 property owners?

In appreciation for the outstanding efforts of each of its employees during 2007, SLS gave everyone (attorneys, paralegals, and staff) a 4 day/3 night expense paid trip to Key West, Florida?
The transactional group at SLS has represented tenants in more than 200 retail leases in the Mid-Atlantic region?
Every attorney in the transactional group at SLS has at least 15 years experience?
The transactional group at SLS has represented developers in the purchase, construction, financing and/or sale of more than 75 multi-family apartment projects?
The transactional group at SLS has represented real estate investors and developers with respect to property in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Michigan and the U.S. Virginia Islands?
Attorneys in the transactional group at SLS have represented eight national banks in commercial real estate loans?
Attorneys in the transactional group at SLS have represented the FDIC, the Resolution Trust Corporation and several banking institutions in loan workout transactions throughout the Mid-Atlantic region?
The transactional group at SLS has represented homebuilders and commercial real estate developers in work-outs of individual loans and also for work-outs of large portfolios involving dozens of properties in several states?
The trial lawyers of SLS have numerous reported decisions to their credit?