From April 21 to April 23, C. Scott Schwefel will be speaking at the American Bar Association’s Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section’s 33rd Annual National CLE Conference. Scott will be speaking to a national audience on Covid-19’s Impact on the Real Estate Market and Its Implications for the Real Estate Attorney. The program…
By: Mark S. Shipman, Esq. Adverse Possession vs. Prescriptive Easement vs. Acquisition. Acquiescence and Adverse Possession are really the opposites of each other. A boundary acquiesced in for fifteen years cannot be restored. Perry v. Pratt, 1863 WL 783, at *1. “Acquiescence in the use and development of an area by a landowner is…
Shipman, Shaiken & Schwefel, LLC started off the new year with a victory in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Hartford on behalf of its client, a chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee. In Novak v. Rogers (Adv. Proc. No. 19-02018 (JJT)), the Bankruptcy Court entered a judgment avoiding the fraudulent transfer of a debtor’s home, made within…
We are pleased to announce that Shipman, Shaiken & Schwefel, LLC has been ranked in the 2021 U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Law Firms” list regionally in 4 practice areas. Firms included in the 2021 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a…
On October 2, David Shaiken participated in a panel presentation at the Connecticut Bar Association’s Annual Bankruptcy Conference. David’s panel discussed a bankruptcy court’s authority to award sanctions and punitive sanctions against a creditor for violation of a debtor’s bankruptcy discharge. The talk focused on a 2019 U.S. Supreme Court case called Taggart v. Lorenzen,…
There are a number of municipalities undergoing revaluation this year. If you are a property owner in these towns, you will soon receive a letter advising you of your new assessment. The list below is of municipalities currently conducting a town-wide/city-wide revaluation. Bridgeport, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Clinton, Colebrook, Deep River, Derby, Durham, East Hampton, Ellington, Fairfield,…
As many of you know, Connecticut’s hourly minimum wage increases from $11.00 to $12.00 on September 1, 2020. The increase over the current hourly wage was passed in 2019 to eventually bring the state’s minimum wage to $15.00 by June of 2023. The minimum wage hike schedule calls for one dollar annual increases as follows:…
Shipman, Shaiken & Schwefel, LLC is pleased to announce that two of our lawyers have been named to the 2021 Edition of Best Lawyers in America©, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. David Shaiken and Mark Shipman were, again, selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in the…
By David M. S. Shaiken What happens when unforeseen events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, make it impossible to perform a contract? Are parties bound by the contract anyway? Is the contract terminated? The general rule is that if unforeseen events make performance of a contract impossible, then the parties are excused from performing their…
By David M. S. Shaiken, Esq. As businesses begin to spend their cash reserves during and following the lockdown caused by the pandemic, inevitably there are going to be cash shortfalls and defaults on commercial loans. Will lenders make concessions to keep companies from remaining in default, or will they push companies out of business…
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