In the November 2015 edition of The New Jersey Cooperator, Jonathan H. Katz, Esq., a partner in Hill Wallack LLP’s Community Associations Group, was quoted in the article “Vetting Your Professionals; Hiring the Best People for the Job.”

The article discusses finding the right contractor for your community association and includes some helpful tips on reviewing the contractor’s proposal and ensuring that the contractor is properly insured and licensed.

Hill Wallack LLP‘s Community Association Practice Group will be exhibiting at the 2015 New Jersey Cooperator’s Condo, HOA and Co-op Expo on Saturday, May 9, 2015, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Join board members, property managers, building owners and real estate professionals and meet building service companies, attend educational seminars and get your questions answered by a member of our team at Booth 600.

For more information or to register to attend, click here!

Hill Wallack LLP‘s Community Association Practice Group will be exhibiting at the 2014 New Jersey Cooperator’s Condo, HOA and Co-op Expo on Wednesday, May 7, 2013, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey. Join board members, property managers, building owners and real estate professionals and meet building service companies, attend educational seminars and get your questions answered by a member of our team.

Hill Wallack LLP Partner Caroline Record, Esq. is among the featured panelists of experts at the Educational Seminar titled “Breaking Bad – The Insiders Guide to By-Laws & Rules.” This seminar will discuss how by-laws and rules are the keys to maintaining a harmonious community, provided that they are reasonable and properly enforced. The panel will discuss the keys to drafting, enacting and enforcing by-laws and house rules. Topics to be explored include when to change by-laws/rules; the proper and legal method of changing them; the role of your association’s attorney; how your governing documents affect by-laws/rules, and much more.

For more information or to register to attend, click here!

Hill Wallack LLP Partners Michael S. Karpoff, Esq. and Kenneth R. Sauter, Esq. will be speaking at the 2013 Community Association Law Summit. This seminar is presented in cooperation with the New Jersey Chapter of the Community Associations Institute and the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section.

Mr. Karpoff will be speaking on “Negotiating and Drafting Community Association Contracts – Getting the Terms Right,” and Mr. Sauter will be speaking on “Have We Weathered the Financial Storm? Dealing with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Foreclosures, Bankruptcies, Vacancies, and the Bell Tower Case.”

The Summit will be held at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on Wednesday, November 6, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and it has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 8.0 hours of CLE credit, of which 1.0 qualify for ethics/professionalism credit. CLE credit is also available for PA and NY, and CPE credits are also available.

For more information on this seminar or to register to attend, please click here.

Hill Wallack LLP Partners Michael S. Karpoff, Esq. and Terry A. Kessler, Esq. spoke on “Essentials of Community Association Contracts: From Regular Operations to Capital Projects” at the Community Associations Institute’s 34th Annual Community Association Law Seminar, presented by the College of Community Association Lawyers (CCAL), in Tucson, Arizona on January 26, 2013.

To view their powerpoint presentation and article on this important topic, please click here. Reprinted with permission of the Community Associations Institute.

In the December 2012 edition of Habitat Magazine, Ronald L. Perl, Esq., the partner-in-charge of Hill Wallack LLP’s Community Associations Group, authored an the article entitled “Protect Yourself! The Four Things Every Vendor Contract MUST include.”

The article advises that community association and co-op boards should never enter into contracts without review by their attorneys. Mr. Perl states: “Attorneys are trained to anticipate problems and provide protection for various situations and are more likely to spot potential pitfalls. A co-op board or condo board should never approve a contractor’s contract without attorney review, and managers should not simply use form contracts for vendor work.”

You can read the full Habitat article here.

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