Kasowitz Benson Torres partner Jennifer S. Recine, on behalf of the owners of the iconic Hotel Chelsea in Manhattan, secured dismissal of a lawsuit by a vocal minority of long-term tenants seeking to halt all renovation of the historic property, modify the Certificate of Occupancy to prohibit the use of the building as a hotel and permanently convert it to solely residential use.
Kasowitz Benson Torres matrimonial and family law partners Kelly A. Frawley and Emily S. Pollock are quoted extensively in O, The Oprah Magazine article, “The Most Common Reasons for Divorce, According to Marriage Counselors.”
On Monday, May 25, 2020, Kasowitz Benson Torres, on behalf of investment fund Cascade Funding, LP - Series 6, filed a complaint in the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court, New York County, against The Bancorp Bank, a national bank with $4.4 billion in assets, for breach of a contract under which Cascade was to purchase from Bancorp, for securitization, a pool of $900 million in commercial mortgage loan assets.
Kasowitz Benson Torres partners Paul M. “Tad” O’Connor and Christian T. Becker and associate Jeffrey Ephraim Glatt have co-authored “COVID-19 and the Future of Business Contracts,” published in the New York Law Journal.
Kasowitz Benson Torres is pleased to announce that partner Kirsten C. Jackson has been selected to represent the firm in the 2020 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (“LCLD”) program as a Fellow and associate Carolina Diaz-Martinez has been selected to participate as a Pathfinder.
Kasowitz Benson Torres matrimonial and family law partners Kelly A. Frawley and Emily S. Pollock have co-authored “How Co-Parenting Apps Can Make Family Life Easier” published in Forbes.
Kasowitz Benson Torres has secured an appellate win for a pro bono client whose pro se claim for the return of $15,000 in cash bail she had posted on behalf of her boyfriend was denied by the trial court.