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11 May 2009

Hospitality Lawyer Insights from Meet the Money® 2009: If it is available, you want leverage to increase your yield, right? Not so fast, says a new study that may amaze you!

The hospitality lawyers of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group® have presented an annual hotel conference for 19 years. On May 5-7, 2009 in Los Angeles, California, Meet the Money® 2009 was held at the Sheraton LAX for almost 400 industry leaders.

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10 May 2009

Hotel industry information presented by industry leaders at Meet the Money® 2009

The hospitality lawyers of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group® have presented an annual hotel conference for 19 years. On May 5-7, 2009 in Los Angeles, California, Meet the Money® 2009 was held at the Sheraton LAX for almost 400 industry leaders.

This is a guide or index for finding the best information we collected from our annual hotel conference.

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8 May 2009

Hospitality Lawyers with David Loeb’s analysis of the hotel industry, values and trends — Meet the Money® presentation May 7, 2009

Meet the Money® is the annual hotel finance conference presented by the hotel lawyers of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group®. These slides were presented at the 19th annual Meet the Money® conference held in Los Angeles on May 5-7, 2009.

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8 May 2009

Hospitality Lawyers with John Arabia’s analysis of the hotel industry, values and trends — Meet the Money® presentation May 7, 2009

Meet the Money® is the annual hotel finance conference presented by the hotel lawyers of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group®. These slides were presented at the 19th annual Meet the Money® conference held in Los Angeles on May 5-7, 2009.

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8 May 2009

Hospitality Lawyers with Suzanne Mellen’s “What’s happening to hotel values and cap rates” Meet the Money® presentation May 7, 2009

Meet the Money® is the annual hotel finance conference presented by the hotel lawyers of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group®. These slides were presented at the 19th annual Meet the Money® conference held in Los Angeles on May 5-7, 2009.

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8 May 2009

Hospitality Lawyers with Mark Woodworth’s “Night has fallen. Waiting for sunrise” presentation– Meet the Money® presentation May 6, 2009

Meet the Money® is the annual hotel finance conference presented by the hotel lawyers of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group®. These slides were presented at the 19th annual Meet the Money® conference held in Los Angeles on May 5-7, 2009.

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8 May 2009

Hospitality Lawyers with “U.S. Lodging Industry Overview” by Mark Lomanno — Meet the Money® presentation May 6, 2009

Meet the Money® is the annual hotel finance conference presented by the hotel lawyers of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group®. These slides were presented at the 19th annual Meet the Money® conference held in Los Angeles on May 5-7, 2009.

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8 May 2009

Hospitality Lawyers with the latest information from Meet the Money® 2009

Typical comments at Meet the Money® this year were “Best ever conference!” and “I am never going to miss this conference again. It’s different than all the others.”

For all of our industry friends — whether or not you were able to attend Meet the Money® 2009 — we will present some of the invaluable information delivered at the conference. We will present both the “raw data” of the PowerPoint presentations, and will also have some commentary in the next few days.

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19 April 2009

Hotel Lawyer: “I am from the government and I am here to help you . . .”

As the old joke goes, this was one of the three biggest lies (along with “the check is in the mail” and “that’s my Porsche and I own it.”). But however you view it, the government is certainly taking a bigger role in all our lives. Part of the latest regulation requires nutritional information to be provided to customers of hotels and restaurants. Here is the latest from our Jim Abrams.

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6 April 2009
Ask the Hotel Lawyer™: What can we learn from the bedbug story? Bedbugs have plagued the hospitality industry for centuries and seem to be making a resurgence.

But there is an iconic story about a “bedbug letter” which is also instructive on the importance of treating people with respect and dignity, and the embarrassment (and financial costs) “important people” can cause to their colleagues and their companies when they forget these lessons.

Here’s the story, as told by Hotel Lawyer Robert Braun for www.HotelLawBlog.com readers, and a real life lesson from last week.

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