| MCLE Credit: | 8.5 (Ethics: 2.0) |
| Live-Interactive Credit: | 0.0 |
| Designation Credit: | 8.5 Real Estate, 2.0 Ethics (Designations Information) |
| Price: | $379 (Includes a downloadable audio version.) |
| Viewable Through: | 01/31/2027 |
$379.00 (or 8.5 Bundle Credits)
A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay from the March 2024 webcast seminar, 28th Annual Advanced Real Estate.
Cosponsored with the Real Property Section of the Virginia State Bar
This year’s program has a variety of topics that are relevant and timely for real estate lawyers in sophisticated transactions.
HIGHLIGHTS of this educational and entertaining seminar:
Equitable Remedies in Real Estate Litigation Cases
John C. Altmiller
Real estate litigation often involves claims for equitable remedies, including claims for declaratory relief, quiet title, partition, specific performance, and injunctive relief. However, the special rules applicable to these claims can create traps for the unwary. It is essential that the real estate practitioner understands when equitable relief is available, as well as some of the common defenses to such claims. This session discusses many of the issues that arise when equitable relief is sought, including: the inapplicability of the statute of limitations to equitable relief, additional legal relief available under the clean-up doctrine, equitable defenses, and the causes of action for which such relief is commonly available.
Advanced Commercial Lease Negotiations
Robert C. Goodman
This session provides suggestions and insights on how to add value in commercial lease negotiations and the lease provisions.
Risky Business: Strategies for Assessing and Managing Environmental Risk in Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Maxwell H. Wiegard
The objective of this presentation is to provide a framework for Virginia attorneys in Virginia to understand, assess, and manage environmental risk in the context of handling commercial real estate transactions. Following a brief summary of the development of federal environmental laws and state environmental regulatory programs, we discuss the types and categories of environmental risk at a conceptual level, and then discuss certain tools and strategies for assessing and managing environmental risk available to Virginia attorneys.
Zero Trust Architecture: An Ethical Imperative for Lawyers
Michael C. Maschke
Many lawyers still look at us blankly when we talk about zero trust architecture (ZTA). If you don’t understand what ZTA is, this CLE is for you. For years, law firms relied on securing their perimeter, but that model of cybersecurity has become obsolete. Now our data is often outside law firm networks—often in a number of cloud services—and on the personal devices of attorneys and staff who work from home. We cannot protect that which is outside our networks.
The federal government projects that it will have fully adopted ZTA by the end of 2024. In a way, the government is setting a standard for “reasonable cybersecurity” that will apply to all businesses, including law firms. And no, you can’t simply buy ZTA as a product—it really is an architecture. Our experienced speakers make ZTA understandable in this session. Law firms must adopt ZTA’s “Never Trust, Always Verify” framework—sooner rather than later.
Land Use & Zoning: What Every Transactional Lawyer Should Know
Karen L. Cohen, J. Lori H. Schweller
This presentation is intended to raise awareness among transactional practitioners about potential land use and zoning issues to consider when assisting clients who are purchasing or leasing residential or commercial property. Topics discussed include drafting zoning contingencies for commercial developers, investigating existing zoning status, and advising contract purchasers about potential land use restrictions before purchase.
Successful Strategies to Resolve Virginia Real Estate Title Defects
James L. Windsor
This session discusses strategies for resolving various real estate title defects that are often discovered during a title examination, at closing, or after closing in Virginia. By the end of this session, you will have a number of proven strategies to effectively tackle many different real estate title defects and to cost-effectively and efficiently resolve the title defects for your client and any future owners of the subject property under Virginia law.
Cyber and Wire Fraud Strategies
Krista Christensen, Tim Lynch
This presentation discusses how wire fraud through business email compromise is currently impacting real estate transactions. It provides insight into the Business Email Compromise (BEC) scheme, a brief discussion on the financial impact of this fraud scheme, examples of social engineering used by fraudsters to infiltrate transactions, including ways to recognize the fraud scheme. It also provides suggestions on how agents can help protect themselves and consumers from this fraud scheme.
The Ethics of Negotiation and Adversaries’ Mistakes
Tom Spahn
This session uses hypotheticals to explore lawyers’ confidentiality and disclosure duties in the context of adversaries’ misunderstanding or mistakes. Among other things, the session addresses: the difference between ethics and professionalism; dealing with unrepresented persons who may misunderstand a lawyer’s role; negotiation ethics (including adversaries’ factual or legal misunderstanding, substantive mistakes, or scrivener’s errors); litigators’ duties in the face of litigation adversaries’ or courts’ misunderstanding, mistakes, or scrivener’s errors.
John C. Altmiller, Pesner Altmiller Melnick Demers & Steele PLC / Tysons
Krista Christensen, Fidelity National Financial / Omaha, NE
Karen L. Cohen, Gentry Locke / Richmond
Robert C. Goodman, Kaufman & Canoles, PC / Virginia Beach
Timothy D. Lynch, CR-11 — FBI Washington Field Office / Manassas
Michael C. Maschke, Sensei Enterprises, Inc. / Fairfax
J. Lori H. Schweller, Williams Mullen/ Charlottesville
Thomas E. Spahn, McGuireWoods / Tysons
Maxwell H. Wiegard, Miles & Stockbridge / Richmond
James L. Windsor, Kaufman & Canoles, PC / Virginia Beach
Toula Dreifuss, S & T Law Group / Falls Church
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