I am again privileged to co-chair the Hotel & Lodging Legal Summit (HLLS), which will take place at Georgetown University Law Center on October 16-17, 2025. We are looking for Student Contributors to help our panels prepare for this year’s conference. This is an excellent opportunity for law students interested in the global hotel andContinue Reading
I read with some interest this article from today’s Hotel Business Review, titled “The Healing Power of Touch: Oncology Care as an Asset to Hotel Spas.” Its author advocates for the expansion of spa services to include “specialized treatments for cancer patients,” including treatments to mitigate the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. I amContinue Reading
Congratulations to Celebrity Chef Ian Kittichai and his organization in Thailand on opening a new restaurant at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort in The Bahamas. I was privileged to represent Chef Kittichai’s company Cuisine Concept Co., Ltd., in the negotiation of a transaction with the owner of the resort to make this possible. Click hereContinue Reading
I am pleased to announce that, after I made an oral argument to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals this February, the court today issued a Memorandum Opinion and Judgment in favor of my client, a decedent’s estate. The court accepted my argument to dismiss an interlocutory appeal by which a beneficiary of theContinue Reading
On February 27, I had the privilege of presenting an oral argument before the Chief Judge and two Associate Judges of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. I am grateful to my client for the opportunity and look forward to the court’s decision. –Bob Lannan
By Bob Lannan I was privileged to attend this year’s ALIS Law conference in Los Angeles, which ended yesterday. The ALIS development conference (“Big ALIS”) is continuing, but I decided to sit that one out this year. ALIS Law has a policy that its panel discussions are “off the record.” Attendees are asked not toContinue Reading
Click Here for the fourth of a series of PowerPoint presentations on hotel management agreements. In this presentation, I discuss various state laws that affect the legal relationship between a hotel owner and management company, particularly with regard to the owner’s power (or lack thereof) to terminate an HMA without cause. -Bob Lannan
By Robert W. Lannan My most significant project in 2024 was the reorganization of a financially distressed corporate client under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. It had been years since I had represented a debtor in Chapter 11, and this was my first venture in Chapter 11’s still-new Subchapter V, for reorganization ofContinue Reading
Click here for my third presentation on hotel management agreements (HMAs), in which I discuss the different legal relationships of hotel owners and management companies.
As we begin the week of Thanksgiving, I want to share five reasons why, in my humble opinion, Thanksgiving is the best holiday of the year. 1. Thanksgiving is both a civic and a religious (inter-religious) holiday. The Pilgrim settlers who celebrated the earliest Thanksgivings were undoubtedly motivated to give thanks by the same SeparatistContinue Reading
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