Author Archive: Max Travis
In the face of a dramatic emergency, details are sacrificed to expediency, and what may seem like an insignificant detail can swell over time into a major blunder. One such potential blunder concerns some poorly chosen words in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Order No. 202.8 dated March 20, 2020. It provided: “In accordance with the…
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A real estate developer purchases an underutilized lot and seeks to either extend the existing structure or demolish it and build a new structure to maximize its square footage. To do this, architects and engineers are engaged and building plans are prepared. The building department reviews the plans and approves them, but before the developer…
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At its most basic level of divergence: Litigation is public and Arbitration is private, not unlike the difference between the United States Postal Service and FedEx. Both provide dispute resolution, but the private one allows you to spend more on better (or at least faster) service. Litigation is the default setting for dispute resolution. If…
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