Negotiating and Reviewing Residential and Commercial Leasing Concepts in the Post-COVID Era in New Jersey

With the ever-changing commercial real estate market in New Jersey, negotiating a lease has taken on a heightened sense of the market and legal awareness, particularly when considering long-term consequences. Leases have always presented complex issues that the parties must face and anticipate, sometimes years in advance. However, with the advent of pandemics and other nuances, what should the commercial and residential practitioners consider and contemplate? In this course, participants will learn negotiation tactics that can be used by both landlords and tenants in bargaining over important and material terms that apply to most lease agreements in our modern and changing era. Presented by Kenneth W. Biedzynski, Esq., this course will canvas and discuss important negotiating tactics as well as drafting and bargaining strategies that both parties should consider and implement. In addition to discussing the above concepts, transactional forms will be presented and examined.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review laws applicable to commercial and residential lease agreements
2. Review checklists for key and material issues that should be addressed in most commercial and residential lease agreements
3. Discuss concerns and issues relating to difficult negotiations as well as address what happens when an impasse is reached in the negotiation process
4. Develop best practices for negotiating commercial and residential lease agreements