Last month our partners Erica Menze and Dean Alterman joined Patrick Bartman of Baird Holm LLP to present a 90-minute seminar on negotiating and drafting leases and easements for the Real Property, Trusts & Estates (RPTE) section of the American Bar Association. The seminar is one in a series, “Lay of the Land,” that RPTE is presenting this year to provide practical technical advice to newer real estate lawyers.
We’re very pleased to announce that Super Lawyers has named Dean Alterman to the 2022 Oregon Super Lawyers list, and Erica Menze to the 2022 Oregon Rising Stars list, both in the field of real estate law. Super Lawyers is a ratings service of Thomson Reuters. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. No more than 5% of the lawyers in a state are named to the Super Lawyers list and no more than 2.5% of the lawyers in the state to the Rising Stars list.
Dean was first named to the Oregon Super Lawyers list in 2009, and Erica made her first appearance on the Oregon Rising Stars list in 2020. Congratulations!
Clients save money when their lawyers base new agreements on old forms, but some forms are a little too old. I haven’t seen a lease form that allows the parties to send each other notices by Pony Express, but last year two law firms sent me lease drafts that allow the landlord and the tenant to send notices by telegraph.