This 48-page Executive Report written for real estate lawyers, developers and investors features strategies for approaching land use and real estate issues and obtaining approvals. Leading real estate lawyers share insights on how to overcome challenges on behalf of the client and identify client objectives. Using examples to demonstrate how these conversations might be conducted, the effective lawyer is able to communicate the positive impact of these same client objectives to other parties. This Executive Report provides advice on how to satisfy the essential needs of the community while at the same time fulfilling the goals of the client.

Other topics include:

• permits
• zoning issues
• government regulations
• crucial documents
• legal issues
• land approvals
• real estate developers. In addition, supporting contracts around land use and environmental permits is provided in the appendix of the report

This Executive Report is written by:

• Robert J. Ivanhoe, Chair, National Real Estate Practice, Greenberg Traurig - Understanding the Options in Real Estate Development
• L. Suzan Kedron, Partner, Jackson Walker LLP - Looking at Land Use from the Inside Out
• Frank L. Baker III, Partner, Robinson & Cole LLP - The Commandments of Real Estate Value

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