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Alexander Paykin

Alexander Paykin

New York business and real estate attorney; managing director and sole owner of Paykin Law, a boutique commercial litigation and transactions firm.

Oct 16, 2026

5:47
Mm-hmm
5:48
... anytime you're dealing with maintenance, common charges, et cetera, anything where your daily drain is gonna run up a meter that you'll eventually not be able to afford, that's the trigger.
6:00
So high carry costs, slow bureaucracies, and slow legal processes.
6:07
So New York is the trifecta here.
6:09
So in New York, for example, you can end up with mechanics liens from a subcontractor who didn't get paid by a main contractor.
6:18
You could end up with complaints from, uh, from neighbors, and not even adjacent neighbors.
6:22
You could have neighbors from a block down, two blocks down say, you know, this is...
11:08
Mm-hmm.
1:41
Why don't you set the stage for us?
1:44
Oh, absolutely.
1:44
And you know what? It is one of those things that's much better to watch from the sidelines than be a part of.
1:50
And spoiler alert, the takeaway is gonna be that have your lawyer review your corporate documents before you think you're in charge.
1:58
But picture this.
2:01
A founder goes ahead and creates a company, has builds everything from scratch, brings in investors, and then suddenly receives notice that the board plans to remove him as CEO.
2:14
Now, his first reaction's gonna be, "They can't do that.

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7:37
And this is where, you know, again, it becomes very regrettable.
11:45
So let's stay tuned for this clip from the conversation that we had with attorney and tech enthusiast, Alice Pakin.
11:54
Never ever trust the demo that they give you where they provide the prompts and inputs and lo and behold, it works wonderfully.
12:02
They tested it thoroughly for their specific example.
12:05
I promise you that unless it's a really bad salesperson, he's not finding out what the tool is going to output.
12:11
When he's standing there in front of you, showing it to you, he knows what it's going to say because they tested that one.
12:15
But when you say, hold on, let me provide the query.
12:18
Let me ask it about this nuanced bit about the law in my state in this particular practice area.

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