Law Seminars International Presents

The Seventeenth Annual Advanced Conference on

Commercial Real Estate Leases

Practical information on negotiating and enforcing commercial leases

December 12 & 13, 2005
Renaissance Seattle Hotel in Seattle, WA

(This past program is available as a video homestudy, or you may purchase the written materials)

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Who Should Order Homestudy

Attorneys, lenders, owners, managers, brokers, leasing agents, real estate developers, and others who are involved in landlord/tenant relationships and who deal with lease negotiation, drafting, defaults, and litigation

Why Order

"This seminar will provide insightful, practical information useful to real estate lawyers, brokers, lenders, landlords, and tenants in negotiating and enforcing commercial leases. Basic concepts are explained to assure that those with less experience are not left behind, but the panel discussion and presentations quickly extend into more sophisticated nuances, often providing specific suggestions for lease provisions and ways to handle particular issues that frequently arise in negotiations and during the tenancy. The use of examples allows participants to apply the concepts to real world situations, based on the knowledge of experienced real estate lawyers, leasing agents, and other professionals in this area. This program has been very popular in past years, and its content continues to be updated and refined. A must for anyone who needs to make important decisions in commercial leasing." - Richard A. Moore, Esq. of Buck & Gordon LLP and Cynthia Thomas, Esq. of Real Property Law Group, PLLC

What You Will Learn

*Making the Deal Happen From Letter of Intent to Move-in *Emerging Issues in Environmental Law *Financing Issues *Remedies & Enforcement *Ground Leases *Assignments & Subleases *Negotiating Key Lease Provisions *Wi-Fi and Other Telecommunications Issues *Work Letters and Construction Law Issues *New Issues in Bankruptcy *Insurance Considerations *Avoiding the Deal Killers *Office, Industrial & Warehouse/Retail Shopping Center Leases

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Agenda

8:30 am	Introduction & Overview
Monday, December 12, 2005
	Richard A. Moore, Esq., Program Co-Chair Buck & Gordon LLP / Seattle, WA
	Cynthia Thomas, Esq., Program Co-Chair Real Property Law Group, PLLC / Seattle, WA
8:45 am	Negotiating Key Lease Provisions: A Panel Discussion
	Landlord’s Point of View
	Jennifer D. Cobb, Esq. Jameson Babbitt Stites & Lombard PLLC / Seattle, WA
	Tenant’s Point of View
	Thomas S. James, Jr., Esq. Summit Law Group / Seattle, WA
	Lender's Point of View
	Brian J. Danzig, Esq. Lane Powell Spears Lubersky, LLP / Seattle, WA
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	A Guided Tour Through Wi-Fi and Other Telecommunications Issues
	Know the terms: Collocation space; telecom hotels; meet me rooms. Services: do you restrict a tenant’s rights, access to services; right of entry? What do you ask for?
	Kraig Baker, Esq. Davis Wright Tremaine LLP / Seattle, WA
11:15 am	Work Letters and Construction Law Issues
	Drafting work letters in leases; liens; releases and waivers; ways to guard against problems and avoid risks
	John Parnass, Esq,. Davis Wright Tremaine LLP / Seattle, WA
	Richard A. Moore, Esq., Program Co-Chair Buck & Gordon LLP / Seattle, WA
12:00 pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:15 pm	Effects of Bankruptcy - New Issues
	Affirmation of lease termination, impact of bankruptcy stay; lender's concern; changes in the bankruptcy code
	David R. Riley, Esq., Director Weinstein & Riley, P.S. / Seattle, WA
2:00 pm	Insurance Considerations for Commercial Leases
	Co-insurance, waiver, and subrogation
	Larry V. Wagner, Vice President Parker Smith & Feek, Inc. / Bellevue, WA
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	The Dance of Negotiation
	Clauses you always spend time on; what you trade; cancellation clauses; tenant improvements; delays in delivery of the premises; exclusion from operating costs; assignments; subleases; indemnities; insurance; what you really care about
	William H. Block, Esq., Director Committee to End Homelessness / Seattle, WA
	Ellen Conedera Dial, Esq. Perkins Coie LLP / Seattle, WA
4:00 pm	Ethics and Strategies in Resolving Lease Disputes
	Roger D. Mellem, Esq. Foster Pepper & Shefelman PLLC / Seattle, WA
5:00 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
8:30 am	Updating Your Leases and Leasing Skills
	Privacy and changes in code
	Cynthia Thomas, Esq., Program Co-Chair Real Property Law Group, PLLC / Seattle, WA
9:00 am	Making the Deal Happen
	From letter of intent to move-in; avoiding the deal killers
	Jennifer D. Cobb, Esq., Moderator Jameson Babbitt Stites & Lombard P.L.L.C. / Seattle, WA
	Daniel J. Ivanoff, Managing Investment Partner Schnitzer Northwest LLC / Bellevue, WA
	Craig E. Kinzer, Esq., President Kinzer Real Estate Services / Seattle, WA
	Paul Suzman, Principal OfficeLease / Seattle, WA
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	Emerging Issues In Environmental Law
	New cases on cleanup liability; revised policy on DOE's "No Further Action" letters; indoor air toxics; stormwater management
	Rodney L. Brown, Jr., Esq. Cascadia Law Group PLLC / Seattle, WA
11:15 am	Financing Considerations for Lease Negotiations
	Landlord/waivers and consents with regard to tenant financing; Subordination, Non-Disturbance and Attornment Agreements (SNDA) with regard to landlord financing
	Constance L. Proctor, Esq. Karr Tuttle Campbell / Seattle, WA
12:00 pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:15 pm	Remedies and Enforcement
	Enforceability of particular lease provisions; unlawful detainer actions (with forms) and other enforcement remedies; dealing with abandonment; handling of security deposits; mitigation of damages; enforcement of Washington landlord's lien
	Evan L. Loeffler, Esq. Harrison, Benis & Spence, LLP / Seattle, WA
	Andrew A. Guy, Esq. Stoel Rives LLP / Seattle, WA
2:15 pm	Commercial Ground Leases
	How to structure, negotiate, and draft solid commercial ground leases; avoiding common pitfalls, financing issues
	Jerome D. Whalen, Esq. Attorney At Law / Seattle, WA
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Assignments & Subleases
	Which works better for landlords, and for tenants? What rights do tenants have? What control do landlords have? How does the market impact assignments and subleases? Update on important recent case law
	Richard A. Moore, Esq., Program Co-Chair Buck & Gordon LLP / Seattle, WA
4:00 pm	Special Leases Panel
	Office leases, industrial and warehouse, retail and shopping center leases
	Constance L. Proctor, Esq., Moderator Karr Tuttle Campbell / Seattle, WA
	Rick A. Osterhout, Senior Vice President GVA Kidder Mathews / Seattle, WA
	William Pollard, Principal, Co Founder Pacific Real Estate Partners, Inc. / Bellevue, WA
	Susan Zimmerman, First Vice President GVA Kidder Mathews / Seattle, WA
5:00 pm	Evaluations and Adjourn

Cancellation

There is a $25 cancellation fee for Course Materials orders and $50 for Homestudy orders

Continuing Education Credits

This program qualifies for 13.25 WA CLE inc 1 Ethics credits and 14.25 OR CLE inc 1 Ethics and 16.5 WA Appraiser and Real Estate credits . On request, we will apply for CLE credits in other states and other types of credits.

Cost

Our complete Homestudy Course, consisting of a VHS or DVD recording and the written course materials, is available for $905. The written course materials alone are available for $100. We will ship your homestudy order via UPS ground within two weeks after the seminar or the date we receive payment (whichever is later).
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Agenda
Credits
Cost
Faculty Bios
Firm Links
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Faculty Bios

Richard A. Moore, Program Co-Chair, a partner at Buck & Gordon LLP, counsels public and private clients in real property transactions. His practice includes representing buyers and sellers in the evaluation, financing, acquisition, development and sale of residential and commercial real property.

Cynthia Thomas, Program Co-Chair, is a Co-Founder of Real Property Law Group, PLLC, providing legal services exclusively in the area of real estate transactions. Her practice covers the full range of real property transactions, including acquisitions, sales, leasing, financing and development.

Jennifer D. Cobb, Moderator, a partner at Jameson Babbitt Stites & Lombard, P.L.L.C. represents clients involved in real estate and business transactions. She was one of the lawyers who formed Jameson Babbitt Stites & Lombard, PLLC in 1994.

Constance L. Proctor, Moderator, is a shareholder in Karr Tuttle Campbell’s Business Department, and Real Estate and Banking Groups. Her practice emphasizes transactional real estate law for both U.S. and foreign clients and includes representation of lenders, developers, governmental and quasi-governmental entities and commercial tenants.

Kraig Baker is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP where he focuses his practice on all aspects of media, entertainment, high-tech and Internet representation, including advising on privacy and security compliance issues.

William H. "Bill" Block is the recently named Director of the Committee to End Homelessness in King County. In his prior life in private law practice he was a partner at Buck & Gordon and represented major owners, developers and users of real property in leasing transactions across the U.S. Earlier yet he clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Rodney L. Brown, Jr. is a partner with Cascadia Law Group PLLC. His practice covers every kind of environmental issue, from hazardous waste cleanup to natural resource management. He was the principal author of Washington's Superfund law.

Brian J. Danzig, Of Counsel at Lane Powell Spears Lubersky LLP, emphasizes real estate, finance, and business law, handling real estate secured financings, loan workouts and restructurings for a variety of lenders at his practice.

Ellen Conedera Dial is a partner at Perkins Coie LLP where her practice emphasizes real estate development and financing. She is the President-elect of the Washington State Bar Association and is the former chair of the Real Property and Trust Section of the Washington State Bar.

Andrew A. Guy, a partner in the Seattle office of Stoel Rives LLP, has extensive experience in a broad array of legal areas including real estate, leases, judicial and nonjudicial foreclosures, contracts, secured transactions, lender liability, loan restructuring, bankruptcy, business disputes and related litigation.

Daniel J. Ivanoff, Co-founder and Managing Investment Partner of Schnitzer Northwest LLC, led them to become the Puget Sound NAIOP Developer of the Year in 2000.

Thomas S. James, Jr. is a partner at Summit Law Group and is the founder and chair of their Retail Practice. He represents retail chains in connection with retail leasing, mergers, operations and dispute resolution.

Craig E. Kinzer, President of Kinzer Real Estate Services, is a licensed attorney, CPA and real estate broker, specializing in corporate real estate services and complex property transactions.

Evan L. Loeffler is Of Counsel to the law firm of Harrison, Benis & Spence, LLP, where his practice emphasizes landlord-tenant relations and real estate litigation.

Roger D. Mellem is a partner at Foster Pepper and Shefeman PLLC and a member of the Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group. He resolves securities, real estate and commercial cases on behalf of individuals and businesses in federal and state courts.

Rick A. Osterhout is Senior Vice President with GVA Kidder Mathews. He serves as a real estate advisor to companies, both regionally and nationally, in the following areas: acquisitions and dispositions; redevelopment and adaptive re-use; coordination of ancillary professional services, and strategic facilities analysis.

John Parnass, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, specializes in Construction Disputes and Transactions and Complex Litigation. He was named a Top Lawyer by Seattle Magazine and a Super Lawyer by Washington Law & Politics in 2003.

William Pollard, principal and co-founder of Pacific Real Estate Partners, Inc., holds a tenant representation of more than 2.5 million square feet as he represents some of the largest, most active corporate users in the marketplace. He currently serves on the NAIOP Board of Directors.

David R Riley is founding director of Weinstein, Fischer, Riley, Erickson & Wolf, P.S., one of the largest national law firms focusing on the representation of creditors in bankruptcy.

Paul Suzman, Principal, founded OfficeLease in 1981 as the first pure Tenants’ Representative real estate firm in the Pacific Northwest. OfficeLease represents numerous companies in both the lease and purchase of facilities.

Larry V. Wagner, Vice President of Parker Smith & Feek, Inc., has more than 20 years of insurance industry experience and has designed and managed the insurance programs for many of the company’s most prominent clients.

Jerome D. Whalen, Attorney at Law, has over 30 years of experience in commercial real estate dealings. Currently he represents several of the largest commercial real estate holders in Seattle. He is the author of Commercial Ground Leases, 2nd Ed. 2001 (with annual revisions).

Susan Zimmerman is a First Vice President with GVA Kidder Mathews, specializing in retail properties and tenant representation. She concentrates on downtown Seattle's regional leasing and currently represents Bentall's City Centre and Schnitzer's Eastside redevelopment.