Real Estate

4.2

Landlord-Tenant Law: From Lease Drafting to Litigation

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
Alaska CLE Reciprocity 6 Total
Alabama CLE Approved 6 Total
Arkansas CLE Approved 6 Total
Arizona CLE Approved 6 Total
California CLE Approved 6 Total
Colorado CLE Approved 7 Total
Connecticut CLE Approved 6 Total
Delaware CLE Approved 6 Total
Florida CLE Approved 7 Total
Georgia CLE Approved 6 Total
Hawaii CLE Approved 6 Total
Iowa CLE Approved 6 Total
Idaho CLE Approved 6 Total
Illinois CLE Approved 6 Total
Indiana CLE Approved 6 Total
Kansas CLE Approved 7 Total
Kentucky CLE Approved 6 Total
Louisiana CLE Approved 6 Total
Maine CLE Approved 6 Total
Minnesota CLE Approved 6 Total
Missouri CLE Approved 6 Total
Northern Mariana Islands CLE Approved 6 Total
Mississippi CLE Approved 6 Total
Montana CLE Approved 6 Total
North Carolina CLE Approved 6 Total
North Dakota CLE Approved 6 Total
Nebraska CLE Approved 6 Total
New Hampshire CLE Approved 6 Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 7.2 Total
New Mexico CLE Approved 6 Total
Nevada CLE Approved 6 Total
New York CLE Approved 7 Total
Ohio CLE Approved 6 Total
Oklahoma CLE Approved 7 Total
Oregon CLE Approved 6 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6 Total
South Carolina CLE Approved 6 Total
Tennessee CLE Approved 6 Total
Texas CLE Approved 6 Total
Utah CLE Approved 6 Total
Vermont CLE Approved 6 Total
Washington CLE Approved 6 Total
Wisconsin CLE Approved 7 Total
West Virginia CLE Approved 7.2 Total
Wyoming CLE Approved 6 Total
North Carolina Continuing Paralegal Education Approved 6 Total
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5 hours 52 minutes
Christi Weber
Grant Puleo
Robyn Kish
Eric Steven
Thomas Major
Matthew Samley
With Christi M. Weber from Dinsmore & Shohl LLP + 5 others
Recorded June 16, 2025
Product ID 100374

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Overview

Navigate Leasing, Compliance, and Disputes With Confidence

Don't let landlord-tenant issues leave you feeling "rented out" - get the keys to success with this comprehensive CLE program! This course provides a practical guide to navigating landlord-tenant law at a national level, from lease drafting to litigation. With expert-led sessions, you will gain actionable insights into crafting effective leases, understanding tenant and landlord rights, and managing disputes. Whether you're representing landlords, tenants, or property managers, this course offers tools to enhance your legal practice and protect your clients' interests. Register today!

Benefits of Attending:

  • Comprehensive Coverage: Gain expertise in all aspects of landlord-tenant law, from lease drafting to post-judgment enforcement.
  • Compliance Insights: Learn to navigate federal regulations like the Fair Housing Act and ADA to protect your clients from costly legal pitfalls.
  • Practical Strategies: Discover effective methods for handling disputes, evictions, and discrimination claims to achieve favorable outcomes.
  • Client Advocacy Pointers: Equip yourself with knowledge to advise clients confidently on their rights, responsibilities, and litigation strategies.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Leases Part 1: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
  2. Leases Part 2: Landlord Rights and Responsibilities
  3. Eviction Procedures and Alternatives
  4. Overview of Federal Tenant Protection Laws and Compliance
  5. Litigation Strategies in Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  6. Ethical Challenges in Landlord-Tenant Law
Product ID 100374

Credit Details

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
Alaska CLE Reciprocity 6 Total
Alabama CLE Approved 6 Total
Arkansas CLE Approved 6 Total
Arizona CLE Approved 6 Total
California CLE Approved 6 Total
Colorado CLE Approved 7 Total
Connecticut CLE Approved 6 Total
Delaware CLE Approved 6 Total
Florida CLE Approved 7 Total
Georgia CLE Approved 6 Total
Hawaii CLE Approved 6 Total
Iowa CLE Approved 6 Total
Idaho CLE Approved 6 Total
Illinois CLE Approved 6 Total
Indiana CLE Approved 6 Total
Kansas CLE Approved 7 Total
Kentucky CLE Approved 6 Total
Louisiana CLE Approved 6 Total
Maine CLE Approved 6 Total
Minnesota CLE Approved 6 Total
Missouri CLE Approved 6 Total
Northern Mariana Islands CLE Approved 6 Total
Mississippi CLE Approved 6 Total
Montana CLE Approved 6 Total
North Carolina CLE Approved 6 Total
North Dakota CLE Approved 6 Total
Nebraska CLE Approved 6 Total
New Hampshire CLE Approved 6 Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 7.2 Total
New Mexico CLE Approved 6 Total
Nevada CLE Approved 6 Total
New York CLE Approved 7 Total
Ohio CLE Approved 6 Total
Oklahoma CLE Approved 7 Total
Oregon CLE Approved 6 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6 Total
South Carolina CLE Approved 6 Total
Tennessee CLE Approved 6 Total
Texas CLE Approved 6 Total
Utah CLE Approved 6 Total
Vermont CLE Approved 6 Total
Washington CLE Approved 6 Total
Wisconsin CLE Approved 7 Total
West Virginia CLE Approved 7.2 Total
Wyoming CLE Approved 6 Total
North Carolina Continuing Paralegal Education Approved 6 Total
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Agenda

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  1. Leases Part 1: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities

    1. Drafting the Lease: Negotiation and Critical Tenant Lease Terms
    2. Working with Brokers and Real Estate Professionals
    3. Common Areas and Liability
    4. Right to Terminate Outside of Contractual Language
  2. Leases Part 2: Landlord Rights and Responsibilities

    1. Negotiation and Important Landlord Lease Terms
    2. Handling Problem Tenants
    3. Premises Liability Concerns
    4. Commercial Leases and Special Considerations
  3. Eviction Procedures and Alternatives

    1. Grounds for Eviction
    2. The Eviction Process
    3. Alternatives to Eviction
    4. Working with Property Management Companies During Evictions
    5. Recent Eviction Case Law and Trends
  4. Overview of Federal Tenant Protection Laws and Compliance

    1. Understanding the Fair Housing Act
    2. ADA and Accessibility in Rental Properties
    3. Mitigating Risks of Discrimination Claims
    4. Other Tenant Protections Laws
  5. Litigation Strategies in Landlord-Tenant Disputes

  6. Ethical Challenges in Landlord-Tenant Law

    1. Avoiding Conflicts of Interest When Working with Brokers and Other Professionals
    2. Maintaining Confidentiality
    3. Dealing with Unrepresented Tenants
    4. Attorneys' Fees
    5. Fair Advocacy and Professional Conduct

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for attorneys. Additionally, paralegals, property managers, real estate agents, and brokers may benefit from this course.

Speakers

Christi M Weber
Christi M.
Weber
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Grant Puleo
Grant
Puleo
Duane Morris LLP & Affiliates
Robyn K Kish
Robyn K.
Kish
Klein, Daday, Aretos & O’Donoghue, LLC
Eric M Steven
Eric M.
Steven
Steven Law Office
Thomas J Major
Thomas J.
Major
Offit Kurman, Attorneys At Law
Matthew C Samley
Matthew C.
Samley
Appel Yost LLP
Speaker bio
Christi M Weber

Christi M. Weber

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Christi Weber

is a partner with Dinsmore & Shohl LLP. She focuses her practice on real estate law and commercial finance. She counsels commercial lenders, individuals, and business owners in all aspects of real estate and financial transactions including acquisitions, dispositions, title review, development, financing, and leasing, and has represented property owners and developers in the formation of condominiums and planned communities. Ms. Weber manages a broad and multifaceted real estate practice that also includes representing clients in disputes involving real estate developers, tenants, general contractors, and property owners. She earned her B.A. degree from Duquesne University and her J.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Ms. Weber is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.

Speaker bio
Grant Puleo

Grant Puleo

Duane Morris LLP & Affiliates
Grant Puleo

focuses his practice on a wide variety of real estate, finance and business transactions. He has extensive experience in a broad array of commercial, multi-family and educational facility (student housing) real estate transactions, including acquisitions, development, construction, affordable housing, P3, syndication, dispositions and specialized leasing and financing of all product types throughout California and the United States. Mr. Puleo's finance experience includes both borrower and lender representation in the origination and workout of complicated debt and equity transactions, such as acquisition and construction financing, mezzanine financing and synthetic leasing transactions. He also represents clients in business matters involving the transfer of business assets and property and the formation and restructuring of joint ventures, private placements, opportunity funds and other business entities. Mr. Puleo is also a seasoned trial attorney, having tried over a dozen jury trials and several dozen binding arbitrations and mediations involving real estate, finance and business disputes, lis pendens, quiet title and partition actions, as well as risk management and litigation avoidance counseling. Mr. Puleo has also testified as an expert witness in trial, binding arbitration and in deposition. Mr. Puleo is an adjunct professor of law at California Western School of Law, where he lectures on commercial real estate transactions. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Endeavor Bank and serves as pro bono legal counsel for various non-profit clients. Mr. Puleo is admitted to practice in the state of California.

Speaker bio
Robyn K Kish

Robyn K. Kish

Klein, Daday, Aretos & O’Donoghue, LLC
Robyn Kish

joined Klein, Daday, Aretos & O'Donoghue, LLC in 2011. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in English from Bradley University in 2001. Ms. Kish earned her Juris Doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2005. Her practice is concentrated in condominium law, collections, and mortgage foreclosures. Ms. Kish is a member of the American Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, CAI, and ACHTA.

Speaker bio
Eric M Steven

Eric M. Steven

Steven Law Office
Eric Steven

is the principal and managing attorney of Steven Law Office in Spokane with a practice emphasis in the area of landlord-tenant relations and housing. He practices in both state and federal courts in all Washington counties east of the Cascades and in northern Idaho. Mr. Steven litigates landlord/tenant cases involving eviction, ejectment, commercial litigation, fair housing claims, and a variety of other landlord-tenant issues. He is one of the few attorneys in Washington to actually defend a fair housing case in a federal court jury trial. Mr. Steven is acting counsel for numerous property owners, landlords, management companies, mobile home parks, and subsidized housing providers. He is active in legislative reform and advisory counsel for the Washington Apartment Association. Mr. Steven earned his B.A. degree from the University of Oklahoma and his J.D. degree from Gonzaga University School of Law. As a licensed instructor in real estate, he frequently lectures to attorneys, property managers, law enforcement, and owners at continuing legal education programs. He is the author of From Landlord/Tenant to Debt Collector/Consumer and Back Again, Gonzaga Law Review, and A Comparison of Residential Tenancies in Idaho and Washington State (2013), now available on the internet, publication pending. For the last several years, Mr. Steven has been an invited speaker at the Trends conference in Seattle, Washington, the northwest's largest rental housing management conference. As one of the most highly evaluated CLE instructors statewide in 2003, he was selected by the Washington State Bar Association to speak in the WSBA Encore "Best of CLE" series. Mr. Steven is a frequent speaker for the Washington State Bar and Spokane County Bar Association. He is a member of the Washington State, Idaho, Spokane County, Federal and Eastern District of Washington Bankruptcy bar associations. In 2019, Steven Law Office was named Top Housing Law Firm of the Year by Lawyer Monthly magazine. In 2023, Inc. magazine named Steven Law Office a Power Partner in business. Mr. Steven was named by National Business Institute, a nationwide CLE sponsor, as the "Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year for 2023", based upon peer review and other factors.

Speaker bio
Thomas J Major

Thomas J. Major

Offit Kurman, Attorneys At Law
Thomas Major

is the principal and chair of the business law and transactions practice in the Hackensack Office of Offit Kurman, Attorneys At Law. He maintains practices in real estate law and landlord representation, counseling clients in the multi-family and investment property industry. Mr. Major has served as a speaker in the past on real estate and landlord-tenant subjects. He earned his B.A. degree from Grove City College and his J.D. degree from Rutgers University School of Law.

Speaker bio
Matthew C Samley

Matthew C. Samley

Appel Yost LLP
Matthew Samley

is a partner with the law firm of Appel Yost LLP in Lancaster. He practices in the areas of bankruptcy and creditors' rights, real estate, business transactions, small business formation, business buy-sell, estate planning and administration. Mr. Samley serves as parliamentarian for the Lancaster County Commercial and Industrial Real Estate Council. He is on the adjunct faculty for Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster, where he teaches a variety of courses in the Department of Business Studies. Mr. Samley frequently presents at professional education programs on landlord-tenant collection law, ethics, LLC formation, contracts, and bankruptcy. He is a member of the Business Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Estate Planning Council of Lancaster County and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference. Mr. Samley serves on the Board of Directors of the Lancaster Bar Association and on an advisory board to the Lancaster County Community Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic. He earned his B.S. degree, cum laude, from Millersville University and J.D. degree from Dickinson School of Law.

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