Jim Butler’s article entitled, "Hotel lawyers’ on "State Of The Hotel Industry" — Sound Bites from hotel industry leaders at the ALIS conference", appeared in Hospitality Net.
Jim Butler’s article entitled, “Hotel Mixed-Use” is the key to reinventing retail says ULI Retail Panel”, appeared in ehotelier.com.
Jim Butler’s article entitled, “Latest insights from JMBM’s Hotel Attorneys and PKF Consulting on what lies ahead for the hotel industry . . .” appeared in ehotelier.com.
Jim Butler’s article entitled, "Hotel Lawyers: How bad is it? And how bad will it get?" appeared in Hotel Resource.
Hotel lawyer in Beverly Hills at the ULI "Reinventing Retail and Mixed-Use" program, the Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, California, February 4-5, 2009. The Urban Land Institute’s big retail conference is underway and one of the lead off panels had some great information about why hotels are being added to retail mixed-use projects. "Hotel Mixed-Use" is […]
As we noted in my Hotel Law Blog interview of January 6, 2009—ADA Sweeps by U.S. Department of Justice – Coming to a theater district or hotel near you soon?—the Department of Justice initiated the Times Square/Theater District ADA Compliance Sweep involving nearly 50 popular tourist hotels. For various reasons, some of these hotels’ owners […]
Target Corporation was sued under the ADA for inaccessibility of its website We gave you an early heads up about how lawsuits brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) can target your website or online reservation system . . . and what you should do about it now. Now there is much more. For […]
An important ADA sweep has been launched — a development involving the Americans with Disabilities Act — and there are important, cost-effective steps a prudent owner or operator can take now to solve unnecessary problems. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound a cure. ADA defense champ — 300 cases I recently caught up […]
A version of Marta Fernandez’s article titled, "New Era (of Unionization)," was published in the December 2008 issue of Lodging Law by the American Hotel and Motel Association (AH&LA). To read the article, click on the File above titled "The EFCA: New Era of Unionization."
On November 17, 2008, the United States Supreme Court let stand a key Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that a “serial plaintiff” and his attorney, who had filed more than 400 lawsuits against California businesses, could not file repeated Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) lawsuits against business owners without first obtaining court […]