We apply our cumulative knowledge and resources to deliver creative and focused counsel in negotiating and litigating commercial and residential real estate-related disputes including: zoning and planning, prerogative writ, mandamus, quiet title, riparian rights, deed and covenant restrictions, adverse possession, tax and mortgage foreclosures, condemnation/eminent domain, property tax appeals and assessment challenges, tax certiorari proceedings, tax exemption disputes, easement disputes, valuation litigation and disputes, commercial eviction and landlord-tenant proceedings, disputes involving claims for real estate brokerage commissions, disputes representing title insurance companies or their insureds, and disputes involving sales of real property. We consistently help clients assert and protect their property interests under extraordinarily difficult and complex circumstances. Indeed, our experience, if called upon prior to the need for litigation services, can assist our clients in ultimately avoiding litigation.
Moreover, the many years of experience and wisdom honed by our tax, real estate, and litigation attorneys affords our residential, commercial, industrial, municipal, and nonprofit clients with the comprehensive and cost-effective representation needed to maximize the value of their real property assets by successfully litigating disputes involving real property. Our real estate litigation experience runs the gamut, and includes appeals before and from local boards and agencies, administrative matters, cases before trial and appellate courts, tax courts, state Supreme Courts, as well as United States District Courts and Circuit Courts of Appeal.
We have substantial experience in handling disputes involving large corporate headquarters and complexes, office complexes/high-rises, industrial structures, multi-use facilities such as hotels, casinos, conference centers, large tracts of vacant land, large residences, charitable properties, telecommunications facilities, as well as research and laboratory facilities and special purpose properties. We have advised several charitable, community, and educational nonprofit organizations with regard to exemptions from taxation on their real property, as well as with regard to their rights vis-?-vis the network of state and federal laws which protect religious and charitable institutions from discrimination. In addition, we have also litigated and consulted with clients relative to the property taxation of business equipment, intangibles and easements. We have developed an interdisciplinary practice together with our Real Estate department involving the resolution of problems faced by lenders when confronted with tax sales and tax foreclosures. Members of our group have significant involvement in the state and local tax arenas in the jurisdictions in which we practice, including service on committees and task forces dealing with tax issues and tax legislation. The many years of experience and wisdom honed by our tax, real estate, and litigation attorneys affords our residential, commercial, industrial, and nonprofit clients with the comprehensive representation needed to maximize the value of their real property assets by successfully reducing their property tax assessments.
Day Pitney has represented a broad spectrum of condemnation clients for many years. These clients have included landowners, business tenants, contract purchasers and licensees. In relation to developed properties, we have represented flagship regional shopping malls, single location retail merchants, a compressed gas company, a stone quarry, an international automotive parts manufacturer (warehouse), and telecommunications companies. We have consistently achieved premium results for our condemnation clients ranging from awards of several hundred thousand dollars to $25 million.
We have successfully accomplished premium results in contested condemnation hearings. In one instance, we forced the condemning authority to abandon proceedings and reimburse our client for $150,000 in attorneys' fees and expert fees. We have close working relationships with deputy attorneys general who represent the State of New Jersey Department of Transportation in condemnation matters. These working relationships allow more effective, more efficient, and less time-consuming resolution of condemnation matters. We are also well experienced in redevelopment, municipal, New Jersey Turnpike and New Jersey Transit takings. For redevelopment projects, our condemnation lawyers work together with municipal counsel to develop and pursue the most effective plan for gaining title to blighted properties designated for redevelopment. Together with our environmental lawyers and their engineers and consultants, we are also particularly well-suited and experienced in the complex legal and valuation issues arising from the taking of environmentally impacted properties. We work with experienced appraisers, planners, and engineers in connection with valuation issues and in connection with land use and site planning issues generated by total and partial takings as well as site reconfigurations.
