As anyone who has watched FX’s The Bear knows, running a restaurant is hard work. When restaurants occupying leased commercial space fail, commercial landlords need a gameplan to protect their ...

Lease negotiations begin when the tenant is presented with the Landlord’s lease form. The tenant will be told it is standard, all the other tenants have signed it and, in any event, it is ...

Generally, California law treats parties to a commercial lease as sufficiently sophisticated, equal bargainers, capable of negotiating an agreement governing their relationship, such that it should be ...