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Identifying a Commercial Lease Attorney- Observe whether
your calls are returned with in 24 hours after you made your contact.
If they are not, especially after you have retained the commercial
lease attorney, think about a change.
- Your attorney
should be obsessed with details. Good enough shouldn’t be good enough
until you say so. You are the customer. Try to determine whether they
love their job.
- Observe whether she listens more than she talks.
- He should be detail focused and fact hungry.
- She should be at once approachable and non-judgmental.
- You
should never get the feeling that your attorney is running the clock.
Demand accountability for this time. You are paying for it.
- Commercial
lease attorneys with trial experience tend to write the best contracts,
provisions and riders. They are in the courts all the time and know how
the local judges react to various situations. Retain one who knows
commercial space leasing and who has trial experience in that legal
discipline. This will give you the best likelihood of having a fair
lease at inception.
- There should never be any question that the attorney respects your money and time.
- At
no time, should your attorney ever provide an evasive answer to a
question. If he does not know, you should demand that they disclose
that and get the answer. Do not pay for basic research that he should
have known. Experts are very efficient and can be cheaper than
generalists.
- Good attorneys are not necessarily good
business persons. Ensure that they focus on your legal leasing issues.
Most cannot eliminate risk for you without ultimately limiting your
chances of success. Business requires risk.
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