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Sean T. Morris, Founding Member
The Morris Law Firm was founded by Sean T. Morris, who is also the principal attorney in the firm. Sean focuses his law practice on the needs of small and medium-sized businesses, assisting with purchase and sale transactions, organizational and operational documents, real estate issues, administrative matters, and business disputes. Sean’s practice has a special focus on the legal needs of restaurant owners and he is one of the most sought-after authorities in the DC metro area on alcoholic beverage matters across all industries.
Restaurant Law Blog
One of the most important provisions in any restaurant lease is when the tenant has to start paying rent. We call this the “rent commencement date” in most leases (or “RCD” for short) and it is rarely the date the lease is signed, or even when possession is turned over to the tenant. Rather, the tenant is […]
Read more...Before I started working with restaurants as an attorney, I did not know anything about the concept of percentage rent. I didn’t even know it existed. If you are reading this, you probably understand the basic idea of percentage rent, but if not: it is where a tenant pays a percentage of its annual revenues […]
Read more...Many people new to the restaurant business are unfamiliar with the concept of percentage rent. In a restaurant lease, percentage rent provisions allow the Landlord to share in the profits of the business, often in exchange for a lower base rent. The idea is that if the restaurant makes a lot of money, the Tenant […]
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