Meet the person behind the microphone…
I am the host and producer of the Tenant Law Podcast.
I have been a landlord-tenant litigator and consultant in New York City for over thirty years. I represent tenants and landlords in residential and commercial landlord-tenant disputes and projects. I have always marketed my law practice via content marketing; I never advertise. I am a co-author of the New York State Bar Association’s 400-page, 3000-footnote treatise entitled New York Residential Landlord-Tenant Law and Procedure. For over twenty years, I have been teaching accredited continuing legal education classes on landlord-tenant law to other lawyers for Lawline, the nation’s largest provider of such classes, and I am one of Lawline’s highest rated instructors. My law firm website contains almost 500 articles and 25 white papers on landlord-tenant law in New York City, all written by me. I am frequently quoted in the press on landlord-tenant law in New York City. I have over 23k likes on TikTok!
Because I have so much content out there, thousands of New Yorkers started finding me and I realized how desperately our City’s residential tenants need accurate and actionable information about their legal rights. Thus, I created the Tenant Law Podcast, where we never waste time talking about politics, we never dumb the hard legal stuff down, and every episode ends with a practical take away. I have a very small law firm and cannot be everyone’s lawyer. Via the Tenant Law Podcast, however, I can be many people’s teacher.
Because I am a lawyer, and the founder of my eponymous law firm, Itkowitz PLLC, I am ethically obligated to say that all this may be considered legal advertising. However, if all this is legal advertising, it is terrible advertising, because I am asking you not to contact me. The Tenant Law Podcast is not a commercial for me or my law firm. This is simply the podcast that I always wanted to make. I am not an affordable option for most residential tenants at this point in my career journey. Thus, as legal advertising, this podcast is terrible. But, hopefully, as a resource for people who very much need information relevant to their housing, this podcast is valuable.
Look, NYC – the law belongs to you. But your ownership of the law is only as great as your understanding of the law. So, let’s learn, to live better!
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Considering the foregoing, please do not contact me via the Tenant Law Podcast for legal advice. If you really want to contact me for legal advice (and I am NOT encouraging you to do that), then do it through my law firm and be sure to follow my Consultation Policy. The press or potential collaborators can contact me about the Tenant Law Podcast at [email protected].
Michelle Itkowitz
