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Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Uses Creative Lawyering to Achieve Remarkable Results

Remarkable Results Using Creative Lawyering

Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. has landed the most remarkable trial victories and settlements, put together extremely favorable deals, and furnished the best in corporate counsel. Looking for the ingredients it would take to become the firm to call when you are looking for the very best real estate attorney, we came up with the following recipe:

  1. We practice one type of law, real estate law and not every facet of real estate law. We only take on projects in which we believe we can furnish the very best representation in the field.
  2. We practice in one state and focus our work on one city and its immediate suburbs, giving us the home field advantage in the courts, the boardrooms and the governmental agencies.
  3. We recruit attorneys who are recognized as the very best in their field in one facet of real estate law.
  4. We model our first year lawyer recruiting on baseball’s farm system where we hire externs, clerks and students who are still in law school. We nurture and build their skills and from these, we hire only the best candidates for full time employment.
  5. We practice aggressive, creative, out-of-the-box lawyering. Led by a cadre of partners recognized in their sub-specialties as number one in the state, we brainstorm new ways to solve the unsolvable, achieve the incredible, and accomplish the impossible.
  6. We never rest on our laurels and know that we are only as good as our last case, deal, or negotiation.
  7. We have invented new ways to practice law and new theories to solve our clients’ problems. Our successes have resulted in producing new laws and new precedents, creating new leases to become the industry standards, devising new faster, less expensive procedures to obtain foreclosures and evictions, using “Perry Mason” moments to win trials, creating out-of- the-box ways to collect on judgments, and creating new theories of law to obtain justice for our clients.
  8. We require of our staff, from the top to the bottom, a level of responsiveness to clients’ interests, concerns, and communications unrivaled not only in real estate law, but in the entire legal industry.
  9. We remain ever vigilant for the clients’ bottom line, looking for less expensive but more effective ways of achieving their goals.
  10. We never stop searching for new things to add to this recipe to make our service for our clients and their interests ever better.
  • Creating Coalition to Save Harlem, garnering the press and governmental representatives using a save Harlem theme, five commercial tenants either without leases or demolition clauses in lease avoid eviction and obtain million dollar settlements. Read more
  • Despite crane hitting building and putting restaurant out of business, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. wins injunction stopping demolition with creative lease reading and garners a seven-figure settlement. Read more
  • Turning to a forgotten federal statute called the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act, he discovered a way to void the contracts of sales for buildings over 100 units. Adam Leitman Bailey. P.C. assisted almost a thousand purchasers in closing on these homes at discounted prices or obtaining a refund of their deposits. The Wall Street Journal quoted a prominent New York developer’s attorney calling these holdings a “game changer” affecting hundreds of newly constructed buildings nationwide. Read more
  • In a family constructive trust case where a right to real property was claimed, intensive investigation, including access to normally sealed records, permitted successful destructive cross-examination of plaintiff resulting in victory for the client before a jury. Read more
  • Our client had promised to sell a building to prospective buyer, had exchanged writings to that effect and had accepted money toward the purchase. Pretrial preparation of multiple bench memoranda were instrumental in keeping out or limiting plaintiff’s evidence, resulting in trial victory for our client in a holding that the client need not convey the property to plaintiff. Read more
  • Client had erected a structure at the back of their business on the property of a neighbor. At trial, Adam Leitman Bailey PC was able to establish through the use of “ancient documents” and testimony establishing a course of conduct that our client was entitled an easement by adverse possession for the continued use of the contested area.
  • Uninsured landlord was sued by tenant for improper security measures leading to terrible injuries inflicted by intruders bent on robbery. Rigorous and exhaustive initial investigation led to a factually intensive motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff was convinced that he had no chance to win and discontinued his lawsuit. Read more
  • Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. argued the rarely-litigated Doctrine of Ratification and put proof forward to show that Plaintiff received the benefits of the allegedly fraudulent transfer, which ultimately validated the deed in favor of the insured. Read more
  • To the best of the world’s knowledge, this was the first decision ever handed down under the newly amended provisions of the adverse possession statue, and it confirmed that de minimus encroachments can no longer form the basis of an adverse possession claim. Read more
  • Even though Wells Fargo’s mortgage was recorded second to Citibank’s mortgage, and even though the buyer had notice of Citibank’s mortgage and was not directly protected by New York’s recording statutes: extensive strategizing and novel research enabled Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., not only to successfully elevate Wells Fargo’s mortgage into the priority position in the chain of title, but even to invalidate Citibank’s mortgage with respect to the property altogether. Read more
  • Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. strategically elicited admissions from the Plaintiffs during discovery that they were not the personal representatives of the estate, in order to get the entire action (and title claim) dismissed for lack of standing, sparing the client the expense of a lengthy trial. Read more
  • Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Makes New Law for a Succession Claim
    Establishing new legal precedent, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. convinced the appellate court that when relatives who are actually relatives but not the kind who are automatically entitled to succeed to an apartment claim succession, they must show not merely that they are relatives, but that there is an actual financial interdependence between the tenant and the claimant to succession. Read more
  • In evicting a nuisance-tenant, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. made new law where a tenant no longer has a right to cure nuisance post trial. Read more
  • Unorthodox collection of trial evidence from internet and public sources resulted in the eviction of a famous nightclub. Read more
  • Thanks to the Beatles, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. used aggressive and creative tactics to enforce a money judgment for the landlord. Read more
  • Bringing the Self Help Remedy Back to New YorkAs the first law firm to advocate and utilize the neglected remedy of self-help evictions in order avoiding having to go to court to recapture space, we gained immense power for our landlord clients. We first published an article on the subject and later this remedy was affirmed by the Appellate Courts. Read more
  • Chronic Nonpayment Cases as a Weapon for Evicting Late Paying Tenants
    As a rarely used theory to evict rent regulated tenants, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. developed methods to evict chronic non-paying tenants. We later applied this doctrine to free market leases. Too many times landlords would start cases and right before the eviction the case would be terminated as the tenant paid right before eviction. With the chronic nonpayment remedy, paying the rent did not stop the eviction. Read more
  • Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. avoids a lengthy court process with the use of licensing agreements to evict commercial tenants without going to court. Read more
  • Creating technology to allow evictions without going to court
    Creating a way to intersect the latest technology and one of the oldest but dormant legal remedies, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. drafted commercial licensing agreements that allowed landlords to turn off the electric key cards when a tenant failed to pay rent. This remedy saved property owners thousands of dollars in legal fees as no court action became necessary as a result of the legal self help remedy combined with the turning off of the electronic key which was the only way to access the shared commercial space. Read more
  • Getting Around the No-Pet Rule
    Adam Leitman Bailey creates the most powerful and creative lease to assist landlords in gaining ground on tenants abusing the legal system. One example is the provision requiring all pets to be registered or face eviction. This provision faces off with the law that allows animals to sneak into a building for 90 days and be allowed to keep an animal for life. Read more
  • Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Wins Case of First Impression As the First Landlord to be Awarded Attorney Fees Under the Tenant Anti-Harassment Act. Read more
  • Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. created new law on primary residence matters and won at trial and on appeal. Read more
  • Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Allows Tenant to Keep “Zoo” in her Apartment
    Thanks to Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., A Manhattan woman was able to keep three dogs and five birds in her Upper West Side apartment, despite the landlord claiming nuisance. Read more
  • Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Won a Trial by Uncovering the Landlord’s Fraud, Thus Thwarting an Owner’s Case
    Adam Leitman Bailey disproved the landlord’s claim that it intended to occupy building as one home when ALB PC found newly installed mailboxes, circuit breakers and intercoms for the six other apartments. Read more
  • The New York Times wrote that “Adam Leitman Bailey fought on…grinding through excruciating detail and obscure Perry Mason moments.
    Using creative questioning, and surprise evidence, Adam Leitman Bailey caught five witnesses in lying to the judge, causing a victory for the tenant at trial. Read more
  • Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Used a Creative Legal Theory to Save a Tenant ‘s Rent Stabilized Apartment
    Tenants used two apartments as one to prevail in non-primary residence case. The proximity of the two apartments to each other and to the business created a nexus over which the couple spread their lives equally. Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., argued that the fact that the tenant may have been away from the apartment on several nights out of the week did not prevent the apartment from being her primary residence. Read more
  • Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Prevents Eviction of Tenant and Wins Damages and Attorney Fees using Federal Law Discrimination Statute. Read More
  • 21 Million Dollar Grant for Cooperative
    Needing a total rebricking with an estimated cost of 72 million, one of the largest cooperatives in New York turned to our counsel to find enough money cover the cost. Believing in miracles Adam Leitman Bailey and the board of directors strategized on a plan to attract money from the City, State and Federal government. The plan worked and 21 million dollars of free money came to the cooperative just in time. Read more
  • The Killer Lease
    Adam Leitman Bailey creates killer lease to assist landlords in gaining ground on tenants abusing the legal system. One example is the provision requiring all pets to be registered or face eviction. This provision faces off with the law that allows animals to sneak into a building for 90 days and be allowed to keep an animal for life. Read more
  • Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Forces Sponsor To Donate An Additonal $21 Million To Repair and Renovate Building As Well As Obtaining Landlord’s Consent To Have Homeowner Association Board Members Read more
  • Adam Leitman Bailey P.C. Works with Attorney General’s Office to Enforce $11 Million Judgment and with the Department of Buildings to Obtain a Certificate of Occupancy For the Building
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  • Adam Leitman Bailey Invents Agreement to Give Condominium Preference in Foreclosure Action
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  • Creative Means to Collect Condominium Arrears Without Having to Go to Court Read more
  • In Lorne v. 50 Madison, making new law, the Appellate Division found condominium boards not liable for repairing newly constructed building and that the obligation to repair remains with Sponsor.
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  • Manhattan Newly Constructed Condominium Takes Over Sponsor Controlled Board and Receives $450k + Apartment + Significant Construction Work without Judicial Intervention
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  • Exhaustive Investigation and Negotiation Results in Cooperator Garnering Exclusive Penthouse Roof Terrace Read more
  • Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Obtains First-of-its-Kind Appellate Ruling Enabling Condominium to Defend Its Ownership of Unit. Read more
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    East 51st Street Crane Collapse

    East 51st Street Crane Collapse

    106 A.D.3d 473 (1st Dept. 2013) Established that settlements of wrongful death action due to crane collapse should be unsealed for review by the public and other parties adversely affected by the collapse.

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    Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Successfully Defends Owner of Building, Shows That the Purchaser Was Unable to Sustain Claims of Fraudulent Inducement, Fraud, and Promissory Estoppel

    Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Successfully Defends Owner of Building, Shows That the Purchaser Was Unable to Sustain Claims of Fraudulent Inducement, Fraud, and Promissory Estoppel

    — N.Y.S.2d —-, 2013 WL 2347542 (N.Y.A.D. 1 Dept.), 2013 N.Y. Slip Op. 03913 (Cite as: 2013 WL 2347542 (N.Y.A.D. 1 Dept.)) Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York. B & C REALTY, CO., Plaintiff–Appellant, v. 159 [Redacted] PROPERTIES LLC, et al., Defend-ants–Respondents. May 30, 2013. Goldberg Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP, New York (Matthew E. Hearle of counsel), for appellant. Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., New York (Jeffrey R. Metz of counsel), for respondents. GONZALEZ, P.J., MAZZARELLI, MOSKOWITZ, RENWICK, MANZANET–DANIELS,...

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    184 Thompson St. Owner LLC

    184 Thompson St. Owner LLC

    Wifb w. 106 A.D.3d 542 106 A.D.3d 542 (Cite as: 106 A.D.3d 542, 965 N.Y.S.2d 114) v 184 Thompson St. Owner LLC 106 A.D.3d 542, 965 N.Y.S.2d 114 NY,2013. 106 A.D.3d 542, 965 N.Y.S.2d 114, 2013 WL 2096432, 2013 N.Y. Slip Op. 03574 Appellant v 184 Thompson Street Owner LLC, et al., Respondents. Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York May 16, 2013 CITE TITLE AS: v 184 Thompson St. Owner LLC HEADNOTE Condominiums and Cooperatives Offering Plan Method...

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    Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Achieves Winning Settlement on Behalf of Co-op Sellers in Landmark Housing Discrimination Case

    Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Achieves Winning Settlement on Behalf of Co-op Sellers in Landmark Housing Discrimination Case

    Client v Stewart Tenants Corp. 93 A.D.3d 550, 940 N.Y.S.2d 600 NY,2012. 93 A.D.3d 550, 940 N.Y.S.2d 600, 2012 WL 952410, 2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 02156 [redacted]Respondents-Appellants v Stewart Tenants Corporation, Appellant- Respondent, et al., Defendants. Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York March 22, 2012 HEADNOTES Condominiums and Cooperatives Board of Directors Business Judgment Rule Civil Rights Discrimination in Housing Age and National Origin—Human Rights Law—Punitive Damages Civil Rights Discrimination in Housing Age and National Origin—Federal Fair Housing...

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    Fort Washington Holdings, LLC v. Maurice Abbott

    Fort Washington Holdings, LLC v. Maurice Abbott

    Fort Washington Holdings, LLC v Maurice Abbott

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    Hartman v. Goldman

    Hartman v. Goldman

    Decided on May 3, 2011 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT JOSEPH COVELLO, J.P. DANIEL D. ANGIOLILLO THOMAS A. DICKERSON SHERI S. ROMAN, JJ. 2010-04447 (Index No. 8003/09) Scott Hartman, et al., appellants, v Dorian Goldman, respondent. Robert I. Eber, Tarrytown, N.Y., for appellants. Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. (John M. Desiderio and Jeffrey R. Metz of counsel), for respondent. DECISION & ORDER In an action, inter alia, for a judgment declaring that...

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    211-06 Merrick Blvd. Associates LLC v. Crescent Electric Acquisition Corp.

    211-06 Merrick Blvd. Associates LLC v. Crescent Electric Acquisition Corp.

    221-06 Merrick Blvd. Associates LLC v. Crescent Electric Acquisition Corp. Before: Pesce, P.J., Golia and Rios, JJ. APPELLATE TERM Jeffrey R. Metz, Esq., New York, New York Burton R. Ross, Esq., Jaffe, Ross & Light LLP, New York, New York DECIDED Appeal from a final judgment of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County (Rudolph E. Greco, Jr., J.), entered March 31, 2008. The final judgment, after a nonjury trial, dismissed the petition in a holdover...

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    Lorne v. 50 Madison Avenue, LLC

    Lorne v. 50 Madison Avenue, LLC

    65 A.D.3d 879 (Cite as: 65 A.D.3d 879, 886 N.Y.S.2d 1) Lorne v. 50 Madison Ave. LLC 65 A.D.3d 879, 886 N.Y.S.2d 1 NY,2009. 65 A.D.3d 879886 N.Y.S.2d 1, 2009 WL 2851987, 2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 06381 Simon Lorne et al., Respondents v 50 Madison Avenue LLC et al., Respondents, and Board of Managers et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants. Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York September 8, 2009 CITE TITLE AS: Lorne v 50 Madison Ave. LLC...

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    Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Prevails in Getting Clients’ Application for Attorneys’ Fees Awarded

    Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Prevails in Getting Clients’ Application for Attorneys’ Fees Awarded

    James Sykes, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, -against- RFD Third Avenue I Associates, LLC. Defendant- Respondent April 10, 2007 Trevor Davis, et al., Defendants. Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. , New York (William J. Geller of counsel), for appellants. Background: Purchasers of real property sought to recover legal fees following release of monies held in escrow in connection with litigation against sellers. The Supreme Court, New York County, Louis Crespo, Special Referee, denied fee application, and purcha s- ers appealed. Holding: The Supreme...

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    Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Reaffirms That a Time of the Essence Letter Must Detail the Consequences of a Failing to Appear at the Closing

    Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Reaffirms That a Time of the Essence Letter Must Detail the Consequences of a Failing to Appear at the Closing

    Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York. Ben NEHMADI, appellant-respondent, v. E. William DAVIS, respondent-appellant. May 23, 2012. Background: Purchaser brought action for specific performance of contract for sale of real property. Vendor moved for judgment on counterclaim that purchaser was in default and that vendor was entitled to retain down payment and for summary judgment. The Supreme Court, Nassau County, McCarty III, J., denied purchaser’s motion for leave to amend the complaint, denied vendor’s motion for summary judgment,...

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    Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Prevails at Trial in Invalidating Contract to Purchase Commercial Property

    Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Prevails at Trial in Invalidating Contract to Purchase Commercial Property

    Chan v. Chin, 106692/05 Decided: July 29, 2008 Justice Walter B. Tolub NEW YORK COUNTY Supreme Court Justice Tolub. Click here to see Judicial Profile Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law This matter was tried before this court on April 30, 2008, May 1, 2008, May 5, 2008 and May 6, 2008. This constitutes the court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law. FINDINGS OF FACT Defendant Shew Foo Chin owns title to the premises known as 79 Eldridge...

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