COURSE DESCRIPTION
Navigate the unique ethical challenges facing real estate practitioners where multiple party representation, financial conflicts, and professional service boundaries create complex professional responsibility issues. This specialized program addresses the intersection of legal ethics and real estate practice, from dual representation challenges to referral fee arrangements. Ensure your real estate practice maintains the highest ethical standards while serving diverse client needs effectively.
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Understand multiple representation rules and conflict identification in real estate transactions
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Navigate referral and marketing relationships with real estate brokers, lenders, and service providers
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Address trust account management and escrow responsibilities specific to real estate practice
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Manage client confidentiality and disclosure obligations in multi-party real estate transactions
Speakers:
Thomas E. Spahn is a partner in the McLean, Virginia office of McGuireWoods, LLP, where he has a substantial practice advising clients on properly creating and preserving the attorney-client privilege and work product protections. For more than 30 years he has lectured extensively on legal ethics and professionalism and has written “The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine: A Practitioner’s Guide,” a 750 page treatise published by the Virginia Law Foundation. Mr. Spahn has served as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and as a member of the Virginia State Bar's Legal Ethics Committee. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.
Anthony Licata is a partner in the Chicago office of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, where he formerly chaired the firm’s real estate practice. He has an extensive practice focusing on major commercial real estate transactions, including finance, development, leasing, and land use. He formerly served as an adjunct professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Licata received his B.S., summa cum laude, from MacMurray College and his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School.