MN_Retailer
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? MN
We’re in (yet another) battle with our landlords over their continued failure to enforce the Use Clause in our lease (retail store, strip mall location) granting us exclusive rights to very specific types of products. It’s come to the point of engaging legal counsel in hopes of terminating our lease, as they have allowed a neighboring tenant (franchise owner and good friend of the landlord) to encroach on this for years. We have lost several clients and untold dollars as a result of the duplication of product offered at discount prices.
Translated: We’re way past a mere “right to cure,” which has been ignored twice.
The attorney we hired, while a nice person, is obviously out of her element, having made two critical errors in our initial approach (and admitting so), as well as needing to consult litigators in her firm every time I ask a question. Four weeks into this, and still, we’re at square one with no response from our landlords.
I feel strongly that since the landlord is refusing to acknowledge our letter of intent to terminate and is not returning her phone calls, we need a more assertive approach...and legal counsel who is more familiar with this type of litigation and adept at making sound decisions.
Here’s my question:
I’d like to stay with the same firm, since their’s a partner there who seems to fit the bill. Is there a correct way to do this so I don’t end up paying two attorneys simultaneously while avoiding any potential problems? What do I need to do to keep the ball rolling forward (and not into a pothole)?
Please advise. Thanks!What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state?
We’re in (yet another) battle with our landlords over their continued failure to enforce the Use Clause in our lease (retail store, strip mall location) granting us exclusive rights to very specific types of products. It’s come to the point of engaging legal counsel in hopes of terminating our lease, as they have allowed a neighboring tenant (franchise owner and good friend of the landlord) to encroach on this for years. We have lost several clients and untold dollars as a result of the duplication of product offered at discount prices.
Translated: We’re way past a mere “right to cure,” which has been ignored twice.
The attorney we hired, while a nice person, is obviously out of her element, having made two critical errors in our initial approach (and admitting so), as well as needing to consult litigators in her firm every time I ask a question. Four weeks into this, and still, we’re at square one with no response from our landlords.
I feel strongly that since the landlord is refusing to acknowledge our letter of intent to terminate and is not returning her phone calls, we need a more assertive approach...and legal counsel who is more familiar with this type of litigation and adept at making sound decisions.
Here’s my question:
I’d like to stay with the same firm, since their’s a partner there who seems to fit the bill. Is there a correct way to do this so I don’t end up paying two attorneys simultaneously while avoiding any potential problems? What do I need to do to keep the ball rolling forward (and not into a pothole)?
Please advise. Thanks!What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state?