You're a commercial broker who spent eight months walking a hedge fund through every available Class A floor in Midtown. You introduced them to your client's Park Avenue tower, ran the tours, drafted the term sheet — and then the landlord cut you out and closed the lease through an in-house leasing agent. The commission you were counting on, somewhere north of $400,000, isn't coming. Broker commission disputes in New York commercial real estate happen exactly like this, and t