Individual sessions also available.
| MCLE Credit: | 8.0 (Ethics: 2.0) |
| Live-Interactive Credit: | 0.0 |
| Price: | $369 (Includes a downloadable audio version.) |
| Viewable Through: | 01/31/2028 |
$369.00 (or 8 Bundle Credits)
A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay from the March 2025 live seminar, 29th Annual Advanced Real Estate.
Cosponsored with the Real Property Section of the Virginia State Bar
Great topics. Exceptional materials. This program presented by some of the top speakers in real estate offers timely information for those engaged in sophisticated transactions.
This year’s topics include:
Using AI in Real Estate
Justin Ritter
This session provides demonstrations of how to use artificial intelligence tools to speed up your legal review, research, and drafting. Various real estate legal tasks will be demonstrated, such as drafting a deed, ensuring Condo Act/POA Act compliance, and review of common interest community centric pre-existing legal documents.
Neighbor Law
John Altmiller, Robert Hawthorne, Jr.
Disputes between neighbors can be particularly challenging for the real estate practitioner. In addition to being emotionally fraught, these cases often involve nuanced—and occasionally contradictory—legal doctrines. This session looks at the many different types of claims that can arise between neighbors in a variety of contexts throughout the Commonwealth, including urban, suburban, and rural settings. The session also discusses many of the issues and claims that arise in neighboring disputes, including adverse possession, encroaching trees and plants, trespass and nuisance, express and implied easements, boundary disputes, division fences, and ejectment.
Deeds and Misdeeds—The Intersection of Death, Estate Planning, and Real Estate
Susanna Hickman, Alison Zizzo
This session provides insight into various real estate issues that can arise during the estate planning process and death. We cover tips and tricks to avoid sticky situations with real property, including ensuring proper titling, misdeemed property, life estate issues, the power of sale versus the direction to sell, and intestacy. The session also aims to streamline property transfers after death to avoid expensive and time-consuming litigation.
Land Use Litigation from Three Different Perspectives: Land Use Counsel, Litigation Counsel, and the Local Government Attorney
Mary Catherine Gibbs, Curt G. Spear, Jr., Matthew A. Westover
In this session we discuss recurring issues in land use litigation, like standing for plaintiffs and the various challenges brought by parties seeking to overturn local government approvals. Advanced topics covered include the defenses available to localities and land use applicants, as well as ways to prepare a land use application to protect against challenges.
Virginia Ethics for Real Estate Lawyers in 2025
Renu Brennan, Emily Hedrick
This session addresses the latest hot topics, including due diligence on clients and matters, cybersecurity, wire fraud, and effective use of AI in your practice. It reviews the application of the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct, Legal Ethics Opinions, and recent disciplinary cases relevant to real estate law.
Mission Accomplished: Transiting the Minefield of Real Property Law and Military Rights and Benefits
Dwain Alexander
This presentation will discuss federal and state laws that attorneys practicing property law need to be aware of in evaluating the process and potential challenges associated in transactions with military personnel. It provides an overview of the scale of the military presence in Virginia, and the demands on military life on servicemembers; it reviews and explains important provisions of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) as it applies to property law; it identifies unique provisions in Virginia law that provide similar protections in addition to the SCRA for the National Guard and Servicemembers; and it discusses the enforcement of violations of the SCRA.
Laws protecting military personnel have existed since 1918. These laws evolve and adjust with each new conflict to reflect the challenges of providing a ready, able, and focused fighting force to defend the interests of the United States. The laws provide rights and benefits that protect Active Duty personnel, Reservists, National Guard, and in some cases their family members. Collectively these laws address everything from civil service of process to default judgments; interest rates to foreclosures and repossessions; and termination of services for both personal and professional activities of covered personnel. Because of the size and integrated presence of the military Virginia, these laws present a potential minefield for the unaware practitioner.
Tax Planning for Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Brandon S. Allred, Louis Rogers, L. Scott Seymour
This session covers various strategies for tax planning and deferral in the context of commercial real estate transactions. Topics discussed include the use of UPREIT and IRC Section 721 structures, installment sales, and IRC Section 1031 transactions and Delaware Statutory Trust vehicles to defer tax on the sale of commercial real estate assets and optimizing tax depreciation through cost segregation analysis. The presentation also includes an update on Opportunity Zones and related tax benefits for real estate investment in those areas.
Dwain Alexander, II, Region Legal Service Office / Hampton
Brandon S. Allred, Kaufman & Canoles, PC / Norfolk
John C. Altmiller Jr., Altmiller Melnick Demers Steele & Rosati PLC / Tysons
Renu Brennan, Virginia State Bar / Richmond
Mary Catherine Gibbs, Wire Gill, LLP / Alexandria
Robert Hawthorne Jr., Hawthorne & Hawthorne, PC / Halifax
Emily Hedrick, Virginia State Bar / Richmond
Susanna Hickman, Geddy, Harris, Franck & Hickman / Williamsburg
Justin Ritter, Ritter Law PLLC / Charlottesville
Louis Rogers, Capital Square / Glen Allen
L. Scott Seymour, Kaufman & Canoles, PC / Norfolk
Curt G. Spear, Jr., Prince William County Attorney’s Office / Prince William
Matthew A. Westover, Walsh, Colucci, Lubeley & Walsh, PC / Prince William
Alison Zizzo, Midgett Preti Olansen / Virginia Beach
James L. Windsor, Kaufman & Canoles, PC / Virginia Beach
