PA Specific

Real Estate

Pennsylvania Landlord-Tenant Law From Start to Finish

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 7.2 Total
New York CLE Approved 7 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6 Total
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5 hours 58 minutes
Matthew Samley
Frank Kosir
Peter Kogan
With Matthew C. Samley from Appel Yost LLP + 2 others
Recorded March 10, 2026.
Product ID 101489

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Overview

Practical Insights From Lease Agreement to Post-Tenancy Issues

The relationship between landlord and tenant is often fragile and can rapidly disintegrate into hotly-contested matters. Are your lease drafting and negotiation skills enough to keep clients out of court? Can you effectively resolve disputes when things go south? In this online seminar, our experienced faculty will reveal all the essentials you need to know about landlord-tenant laws in order to protect clients. Get the foundational knowledge you need to handle any case that may cross your desk. Register today!

  • Understand landlord and tenant rights and obligations as spelled out by state, local, and federal laws.
  • Take a look at routinely-negotiated lease provisions from landlord and tenant perspectives.
  • Get solutions to nonpayment of rent, damages to rental property, repairs and maintenance issues, and other disputes.
  • Walk step by step through the eviction process.
  • Learn the dos and don'ts for handling abandoned property and other post-tenancy matters.
  • Gain legal ethics insights tailored to the practice of landlord-tenant law.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Landlord-Tenant Laws: Rights and Obligations Made Simple
  2. Terminations and Evictions: When the Love is Gone
  3. Fair Housing and Discrimination Issues
  4. Lease Drafting and Negotiations: Landlord vs. Tenant Perspectives
  5. Landlord-Tenant Disputes: Prevention and Problem Solving Tips
  6. Collecting a Judgment, Abandoned Property, and Other Post-Tenancy Issues
  7. Ethics in the Practice of Landlord-Tenant Law

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Product ID 101489

Credit Details

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 7.2 Total
New York CLE Approved 7 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6 Total
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Agenda

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  1. Landlord-Tenant Laws: Rights and Obligations Made Simple

    1. State Statutes and Local Ordinances
    2. Must-Know Case Law
    3. Remediation Responsibilities: Mold, Radon, Asbestos
    4. Property Management Laws
    5. Short-Term Rental Ordinances

  2. Terminations and Evictions: When the Love is Gone

    1. Terminating a Lease
    2. Causes for Eviction
    3. Eviction Proceedings Walkthrough
    4. Tenant Defenses
    5. When a Tenant Files for Bankruptcy: Automatic Stay Basics

  3. Fair Housing and Discrimination Issues

    1. Tenant Anti-Discrimination Laws: The FHA and Beyond
    2. Legally Screening and Qualifying Tenants
    3. Reasonable Accommodations and Modifications
    4. Service Animals, ESAs, and Therapy Pets
    5. Retaliation and Harassment

  4. Lease Drafting and Negotiations: Landlord vs. Tenant Perspectives

    1. Residential Lease Agreement Walkthrough
    2. Commercial Lease Agreement Walkthrough
    3. Hotly-Negotiated Provisions: Landlord vs. Tenant Perspectives
    4. Top Lease Drafting Mistakes to Avoid
    5. Electronic Signatures and Lease Agreements

  5. Landlord-Tenant Disputes: Prevention and Problem Solving Tips

    1. Nonpayment
    2. Damages to Rental Property
    3. Repair and Maintenance Disputes
    4. Ordinance Violations and Nuisance Claims
    5. Premises Liability Issues

  6. Collecting a Judgment, Abandoned Property, and Other Post-Tenancy Issues

  7. Ethics in the Practice of Landlord-Tenant Law

    1. Pertinent Rules of Professional Conduct
    2. Conflicts of Interest
    3. Can You Represent Both Landlord and Tenant?
    4. Fee Agreements
    5. Confidentiality
    6. Dealing With Unrepresented Parties
    7. Code Citations and Cases

Who Should Attend

This comprehensive, basic-to-intermediate level online seminar will benefit:

  • Attorneys
  • Housing Authorities
  • Code/Housing Compliance Professionals
  • Real Estate Brokers
  • Property Managers
  • Developers
  • Building Owners
  • Leasing Agents
  • Other Real Estate Professionals
  • Paralegals

Speakers

Matthew C Samley
Matthew C.
Samley
Appel Yost LLP
Frank Kosir Jr.
Frank
Kosir, Jr.
Meyer Unkovic & Scott LLP
Peter L Kogan
Peter L.
Kogan
Reed Smith LLP
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 Departments of Business Studies and Social Sciences. 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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Frank Kosir Jr.

Frank Kosir, Jr.

Meyer Unkovic & Scott LLP
Frank Kosir

is a partner with Meyer Unkovic & Scott LLP in Pittsburgh, and is a member of the firm's real estate and lending, litigation and dispute resolution, energy and mineral rights, and construction law groups. He has significant civil litigation and general practice experience in all areas of real property law. Prior to entering the practice of law, Mr. Kosir acquired extensive experience in all facets of real estate development, sales, construction and leasing with his family's home construction company. He represents clients in a wide range of matters, including commercial and residential real estate tax assessment appeals, commercial and residential sales and leasing, oil and gas lease negotiations, boundary line disputes, real estate title defense and claims, commercial and residential landlord-tenant proceedings, quiet title proceedings, eminent domain proceedings, condominium creation and amendment, and zoning and land use issues. Mr. Kosir earned his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Washington and Jefferson College and his J.D. degree from the Duquesne University School of Law. A member of the Pennsylvania, Allegheny County and Washington County bar associations, he formerly served on the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section Council. Mr. Kosir writes a monthly real estate case law update and a quarterly real estate update column. He is co-author of the books, Fagnilli and Kosir on Deeds-Fundamentals of Deed Drafting and Fagnilli and Kosir on Deeds-Fundamentals of Deed Drafting (2nd edition). 

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Peter L Kogan

Peter L. Kogan

Reed Smith LLP
Peter Kogan

is counsel in the real estate group of the law firm of Reed Smith LLP. He represents clients in all major aspects of transactional real estate law, including property acquisition and disposition, land use and development, leasing and subleasing, and real estate finance and entity structuring. Mr. Kogan's clients have included large global retailers, professional sports franchises, hotel and restaurant developers, major industrial and manufacturing businesses, software and information technology companies, entities engaged in commercial transportation and waste disposal, and owners of retail and other properties. He focuses his practice on complex transactions involving the multi-purpose development and redevelopment of large-scale properties in Western Pennsylvania and elsewhere, which frequently include extensive and innovative arrangements with public and quasi-public agencies for the use of former industrial, commercial and institutional sites. In connection with such transactions, Mr. Kogan has assisted clients in securing public-private financing, and entering into partnership and development agreements governing the use and development of brownfield and grayfield sites. He has lectured extensively on issues of real estate law and commercial development in Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Kogan earned his B.A. degree from the University of Michigan and his J.D. degree, with honors, from Emory University School of Law.

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