Friedman on Leases (Sixth Edition) clarifies and analyzes the full range of lease provisions and conceivable landlord-tenant situations to give you unsurpassed practical instruction on how to negotiate and draft airtight agreements that protect your clients’ rights and minimize their liability exposure.

Friedman on Leases includes numerous case decisions with commentary and valuable sample lease clauses and agreements that help practitioners to: draft, negotiate, and amend every essential document involved in commercial leasing, modify lease provisions for the full variety of landlord-tenant arrangements, anticipate and resolve problematic transaction developments, and also avoid drafting errors, including omissions, ambiguities, and fatal terminology. 

The latest update to Friedman on Leases (Sixth Edition) continues to provide balanced coverage of tenant and landlord concerns and updates the treatise with the most current legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements and developments. Highlights of Release #8 include:

• Chapter 2, The Parties. Updated to include situations where a tenant constitutes a partnership, consisting of two or more parties who are partners under applicable state law (see section 2:1.5).
• Chapter 3, The Premises. Updated to include a New York Appellate Division holding that a tenant’s right to “use and enjoyment” is implied, especially if the space is leased for a specific expressed purpose (see
• section 3:2.2).
• Chapter 5, Rent. Provides a new sample “most favored nation” provision in an office lease (see section 5:7).
• Chapter 7, Assignment, Subletting, and Mortgaging by Tenant. Updated to include a Nebraska Supreme Court case that reviewed whether taking possession and paying rent satisfy the statute of frauds so as to make the possessor liable on the lease as an assuming party (see section 7:5.1[C][1][a]).

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