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Posted On: January 03, 2007 by Jim Butler
                

Hotel Lawyer — Top Picks for 2006

                 
                   

By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
3 January 2007

Hotel Lawyer — Top Picks of 2006. Yes, 2006 has been a record year for many in the hospitality industry, and for the hotel lawyers at Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP. As we have already given our Outlook for 2007, we thought it might be interesting to look back on our Top Pick articles from 2006 from www.HotelLawBlog.com.

The Top Picks articles are organized by the major TOPICS on the Blog. We generally tried to select just the top two or three articles for each TOPIC. It was a major struggle to decide where to make the cutoff. If you want more information on a particular TOPIC, you can go to www.HotelLawBlog.com, and search for all articles on that TOPIC. To do that, just scroll down the right hand side, and below the (free) subscription and RSS Feed buttons is the Browse search engine that enables you to sort by TOPIC (or date, or key words, etc.).

Here they are . . .

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Posted In: ADA, Condo Hotels, Disasters, Hotel Mixed-Use, International Hotel Investment, Labor & Employment, Land Use & Entitlements, Management and Franchise Agreements, Outlook and Trends, Workouts, Bankruptcies & Receiverships 

 
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Posted On: December 12, 2006 by Jim Butler
                

Hospitality Lawyer on hotel brands — How far will the pendulum swing? What’s in a name? Just ask Starwood, Hilton . . . Coca-Cola or Procter & Gamble

                 
                   

By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
12 December 2006

Hospitality Lawyer on the power of hotel brands. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet. But does a Trump by any other name sell out as fast? Does a Four Seasons by any other name get a $3.7 billion bid from Bill Gates and the Prince?

What’s a brand? It is not always so easy to determine. Yesterday, I talked about how Donald Trump is more than “just” a very successful developer. He has developed a powerful BRAND with legs.” But are all brands the same? Should they be? What makes a successful brand — for an owner or developer?

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Posted In: Condo Hotels, Hotel Mixed-Use, Management and Franchise Agreements, Outlook and Trends 

 
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About Jim Butler

Jim Butler is recognized as one of the top hotel lawyers in the world. He devotes 100% of his practice to hospitality, representing hotel owners, developers and lenders. Jim leads the Global Hospitality Group®—a team of 50 seasoned professionals with more than $40 billion of hotel transactional experience, involving more than 1,000 properties located around the globe.
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