24/7 Access to the WCZ Legal Team at COVID19@wczlaw.com or (404) 844-5719
The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has produced unprecedented challenges for businesses and the community association industry. The rapidly changing public health crisis has disrupted operations, supply chains, communications, and more. As a result, many leaders are uncertain about how to handle both the immediate and long-term consequences.
The WCZ COVID-19 Response Team, along with all WCZ attorneys and support staff, are working remotely whenever possible pursuant to CDC guidance, but remain fully accessible to address our clients’ issues. WCZ had a robust business continuity system in place years before the pandemic hit and thus was well-prepared to pivot into remote operations without interruption to our continued commitment to serving our clients’ legal needs.
WCZ is carefully following the developing COVID-19 pandemic and the effect it has had and will continue to have on our clients’ businesses and other operations. To efficiently address the vast and rapidly changing effects, WCZ has formed an interdisciplinary COVID-19 Response Team made up of acclaimed, highly experienced, and well-respected attorneys dedicated to addressing the unique and novel issues presented by this pandemic.
Throughout this pandemic, WCZ will be updating our website regularly with current news and advice for our clients.
Please contact members of WCZ’s COVID-19 Response Team or the attorney that you currently work with if you have any issues with which we may be able to assist.
The following attorneys comprise the COVID-19 Response Team:
- Richard Capriola
- Eric Coleman
- Kelsey Grodzicki
- Stephen A. Winter
- Steven M. Winter
- Beth Taylor
The WCZ COVID-19 Response Team fully understands the necessity for responsive legal counsel. Therefore, to ensure our clients have immediate access to the COVID-19 Response Team, a new 24/7 hotline (404) 844-5719 has been created. In addition, a new COVID-19 Response Team specific email address (covid19@wczlaw.com) has been created to allow WCZ’s experienced attorneys to resolve our clients’ issues quickly and efficiently. The WCZ COVID-19 Response Team is committed to timely and transparent communication.
The WCZ COVID-19 Response Team is positioned to develop successful strategies to navigate urgent and rapidly evolving legal issues affecting our clients. Among other things, the COVID-19 Response Team can help clients with COVID-19 related issues in the following practice areas and industries:
- Commercial litigation
- Construction issues
- Delay
- Performance
- Contract issues
- Payments
- Liens
- Bonds
- Schedule extensions
- Loan workouts and forbearance agreements
- Personal guarantor liability
- Financing
- Business formation, dissolution
- Business disputes, partner disputes, business torts
- Defaults
- Regulatory matters and compliance
- Insurance
- Contracts
- Cancellations
- Revisions
- Delays
- Nonperformance
- Impossibility of performance
- “Act of God”
- Frustration of purpose
- Force majeure
- Employment issues
- Corporate M&A
- Real estate
- Commercial leasing issues (landlord and tenant)
- New and additional costs related to COVID-19 (e.g., increased common area cleaning)
- Government forced closures or reductions in hours
- Request for abatement or deferral in rent
- Residential leasing issues
- Tenant unemployment
- Requests for deferred or abated rent
- Any obligations related to multiple tenants under different leases
- Terminating a real estate purchase contract
- Commercial leasing issues (landlord and tenant)
- Community association
- Membership meetings
- Board meetings
- Common areas / common elements
- Services provided by association
- Communications regarding COVID-19 and residents who test positive
- Notification obligations
- Food & beverage
- Hospitality & Travel
- Franchise issues
- Transportation
- Creditor bankruptcy – Chapter 7 & 11
For latest on COVID-19 and WCZ news, please visit our COVID-19 Insights page.