Law Seminars International Presents

An Advanced Two-Day Conference on

Real Estate Purchases & Sales

Structuring, Negotiating and Documenting Major Commercial Property Sales

March 7 & 8, 2005
Renaissance Seattle Hotel in Seattle, WA
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Who Should Order Homestudy

Attorneys, real estate developers, owners, managers, brokers and appraisers, as well as lenders, escrow officers and others who make decisions in the purchase and sale of real property

Why Order

Commercial Purchase and Sale Agreements are unique machines - machines that can, unfortunately, blow up in the face of the unwary or uninformed. A friend once said that lawyers hate closings because that’s when they stop getting paid and take on liability. This seminar will explore, in a real world context, the structuring, negotiation and documentation of major commercial property sales, as well as the pleasures and pain of enforcing sale agreements. The key words here are real world context - the knowledge you gain here can be used tomorrow - or even this afternoon if you are pressed. This conference is a must for anyone who needs to make important decisions in commercial property purchases and sales. ~ Program Co-Chairs: William H. Block, Esq. and Jennifer Cobb, Esq.

What You Will Learn

- Advanced Issues in Purchase and Sale Agreements - The Latest in Ti tle Insurance Claims - Due Diligence - Using Appraisals in Real Estate Purchases and Sales - Agency Duties & Liabilities - Section 1031 and Other Tax Issues - The Dance of Negotiation - Ethical Issues in Purchases and Sales - Brownfields - Developments in Hazardous Waste - Making and Killing Deals - the Real World Perspective - Enforcement - Build to Suit - Income tax pointers - Floataing homes - Excise tax conundrums - Shopping centers - Finished lots in master planned communities - Condominiums

What Attendees Said

~ The audience was like the brain trust of Seattle real estate! ~ Overall content was excellent as always!

Agenda

Monday, March 07, 2005
8:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Introduction & Overview
  William H. Block, Esq.
 Buck & Gordon LLP / Seattle, WA
8:45 am Advanced Issues in Purchase and Sale Agreements
  Identifying the complexities and drafting to meet them
  Cynthia Thomas, Esq.
 Real Property Law Group / Seattle, WA
9:30 am The Latest in Title Insurance claims
  An overview of coverage, selected cases involving claims
  John Jones, Esq., Vice President & Underwriter
 Stewart Title Guaranty Company / Seattle, WA
10:15 am Break
10:30 am Due Diligence
  Easements and covenants, rights and burdens, leases, financial statements, surveys, consultants, Negotiating with Permitting Authority
  Jennifer C. Cobb, Esq.
 Jameson Babbitt Stites & Lombard / Seattle, WA
  Easements and covenants, rights and burdens, leaes, financial statements, survey, consultants, negotiating with Permitting Authority
  Daniel J. Ivanoff, Co-founder & Managing Investment Partner
 Schnitzer Northwest, LLC / Bellevue, WA
12:00 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:15 pm Using Appraisals in Real Estate Purchases and Sales
  How appraisals can apply in financing, contingencies, government acquisitions, Fair Market Value and litigation
  Peter K. Shorett, MAI, CRE, Executive Vice-President & Division Manager
 GVA Kidder Mathews / Seattle, WA
2:15 pm Agency Duties and Liabilities
  Real estate practice of agency as defined by statute
  Christopher Osborn, Esq.
 Foster Pepper & Shefelman, PLLC / Seattle, WA
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm Section 1031 and Other Tax Issues and Strategies
  Tax- deferred and reverse exchanges, syndicated tenancies in common, condemnations and installment sales
  Mary B. Foster, Esq.
 Section 1031 Services, Inc. / Bellevue, WA
4:00 pm The Dance of Negotiation
  In Negotiations, what gets cut, what gets left in and why
  William H. Block, Esq.
 Buck & Gordon LLP / Seattle, WA
  Cynthia Thomas, Esq.
 Real Property Law Group / Seattle, WA
5:00 pm Reception for faculty & attendees
  Sponsored by Jameson Babbitt Stites & Lombard and Buck & Gordon

Tuesday, March 08, 2005
8:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Introduction & Overview
  Jennifer C. Cobb, Esq.
 Jameson Babbitt Stites & Lombard / Seattle, WA
8:45 am The Straight and Narrow: Ethical Issues in Purchases and Sales
  Representing multiple parties; partners and partnerships; disclosure; acting as both lawyer and escrow
  John Strait, Esq., Professor
 Seattle University School of Law / Seattle, WA
9:45 am Brownfields -- Developments in Hazardous Waste
  Hazardous waste laws affecting purchase and sale, risk allocation among buyer, seller, lender
  Rodney L. Brown, Jr., Esq.
 Brown Reavis & Manning PLLC / Seattle, WA
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Making and Killing Deals: What You Need to Know About the Real World
  William H. Block, Esq.
 Buck & Gordon LLP / Seattle, WA
  Curt Ghan, Senior Vice President & Partner
 Kidder, Mathews & Segner, Inc. / Seattle, WA
  Craig E. Kinzer, Esq., CPA, President
 Kinzer Real Estate Services / Seattle, WA
  Arthur Wahl, Managing Director
 CB Richard Ellis / Seattle, WA
12:00 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:15 pm Enforcement
  New remedies, specific performance, damages, avoiding liability, alternative dispute resolution, sample clauses
  Christopher I. Brain, Esq., Attorney
 Tousley Brain Stephens PLLC / Seattle, WA
2:15 pm Break
2:30 pm Quick Tips on Specialized Issues
  Build to Suit
  William H. Block, Esq.
 Buck & Gordon LLP / Seattle, WA
  Income Tax Pointers
  Mary B. Foster, Esq., President
 Section 1031 Services, Inc. / Bellevue, WA
  Floating Homes
  Phillip S. Miller, Esq., Principal
 Law Offices of Phillip Miller / Seattle, WA
  Excise Tax Conundrums
  Pamela Charles Brown, Esq.
 Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP / Seattle, WA
  Shopping Centers
  William H. Block, Esq.
 Buck & Gordon LLP / Seattle, WA
  Finished Lots in Master Planned Communities
  Robert B. Fikso, Esq.
 McCullough Hill Fikso Kretschmer Smith Dixon PS / Seattle, WA
  Condominiums
  Gary N. Ackerman, Esq.
 Foster Pepper & Shefelman PLLC / Seattle, WA
5:00 pm Adjourn

Cancellation

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

Continuing Education Credits

Law Seminars International automatically obtains CLE credit approval for the state in which a seminar is held. On request, we will apply for CLE credits in other states and other types of credits. Current credits status: WA CLE 13 inc.1 ethics | WA APP 15.5 (#AP477) | WA LPO 7.25 gen units & 2.75 liability | WA RE 15.5 #C4109) | CA MCLE 13.5 inc. 1 ethics | NY CLE 15.6 inc 1.2 ethics

Cost

Our complete Homestudy Course, consisting of a VHS or DVD recording and the written course materials, is available for $905. The 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 (which ever is later).
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Faculty Bios

William H. Block, Program Co-Chair, of Buck & Gordon LLP concentrates his practice on real estate acquisition and disposition, leasing, construction and municipal law. Previously he served as a law clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court.

William H. Block, Program Co-Chair, of Buck & Gordon LLP concentrates his practice on real estate acquisition and disposition, leasing, construction and municipal law. Previously he served as a law clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackman of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Gary Ackerman, a partner with Foster Pepper & Shefelman PLLC, focuses his practice on business with an emphasis in real estate. His real estate experience includes specialization in condominium and homeowner association law, representing both owners associations and developers of residential, commercial and mixed-use condominium projects.

William H. Block, Program Co-Chair, of Buck & Gordon LLP concentrates his practice on real estate acquisition and disposition, leasing, construction and municipal law. Previously he served as a law clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackman of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Christopher I. Brain focuses his practice at Tousley Brain Stephens PLLC on real property and business litigation. He is author of “Commercial Litigation Posturing in Real Estate Cases,” “Procedure for Processing Judicial Foreclosures,” and “Litigation of Disputes over Easements and CCRs” for the Washington State, and the Seattle-King County Bar Associations.

Pamela Charles Brown is a shareholder with Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP where she practices federal and Washington State tax law providing transactional tax planning advice in domestic and international business transactions. She also advises taxable and tax-exempt entities on real estate transactions, exemption and unrelated business taxable income issues and on executive compensation matters.

Rodney L. Brown, Jr. is a partner with Brown Reavis & Manning PLLC, a firm that specializes in environmental law. Rod has worked on many significant environmental cases in the Northwest for the past twenty years, including most of the region’s Superfund cleanups, the permitting of major industrial and municipal facilities, and the development of large-scale “brownfield” properties. He was the principal author of Washington’s Superfund law—the Model Toxics Control Act.

Bob Fikso is a founding principal of McCullough Hill Fikso Kretschmer Smith Dixon PS. His practice emphasizes real estate transactions and organizations.

Mary B. Foster is Of Counsel to the Seattle law firms of Tousley Brain Stephens PLLC and the Real Property Law Group, PLLC. Her practice focuses on real estate taxation, partnership law and estate planning. She is currently General Counsel to Section 1031 Services, Inc. and is co-author of Tax Free Exchanges under IRC Section 1031, published by The West Group.

Curt Ghan is a Senior Vice President and Partner at GVA Kidder Mathews, the northwest’s largest commercial real estate services company. He has 25 years of experience in real estate investment sales and leasing. Mr. Ghan has represented both buyers and sellers in the acquisition and disposition of numerous Puget Sound area investment properties.

Daniel J. Ivanoff is the co-founder and managing investment partner of Schnitzer Northwest, LLC, leading them to become Puget Sound’s NAIOP Developer of the Year in 2000. He has 15 years of experience including being Regional Vice President of MBK Northwest, where in 1995, under his direction, they were awarded Industrial Developer of the Year by the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors.

John Jones is Vice President and Underwriter for Stewart Title Guaranty Company in its Seattle National Title Services office. He has been the primary underwriter for a significant group of major projects in the Seattle-Bellevue area including the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Pike Place Market, Benaroya Hall, One and Two Union Square, Pacific Place, the Harbor Steps Project and the new international headquarters for Washington Mutual/Seattle Art Museum.

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.

Phillip S. Miller opened his solo practice in Seattle after 20 years with large and medium-sized firms. He continues to focus on transactional real estate and general commercial matters. As a result of an interesting connection nearly 25 years ago, he has become an expert in the laws pertaining to floating homes, a small practice niche unique to Seattle.

Christopher Osborn, a partner with Foster Pepper & Shefelman PLLC, focuses his practice on real estate transactions and dispute resolution, with emphasis on the representation of multiple listing services and real estate brokerages as well as buyers, sellers and developers of real property. He is counsel to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service and the Commercial Brokers Association and represents numerous commercial and residential brokerages. He is the principal author of the most commonly used residential and commercial real estate transaction forms in the state.

Peter K. Shorett, an Executive Vice President & Division Manager with GVA Kidder Mathews, has a widely diversified background in appraisal, market analysis and counseling for the development, acquisition, sale, leasing and financing of major urban real estate.

John Strait is a Professor at Seattle University School of Law. He also consults and lectures nationally in the fields of civil and criminal trial advocacy, legal and judicial ethics, and legal malpractice. He has served on the Washington Supreme Court’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee, King County Bar Association Campaign Ethics Committee, the Seattle Port Authority Ethics Advisory Committee and WSBA Rules of Professional Conduct Committee. For the clinical component of his course in Professional Responsibility, the law school received the E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award from the American Bar Association.

Cynthia Thomas helped to form Real Property Law Group, PLLC to provide 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. Work for current clients runs the gamut from garden-variety leases to development documents for large urban mixed-use projects.

Arthur Wahl is a Managing Director at CB Richard Ellis where he applies his 37 years of experience across the real estate environment from leasing and sales to development, both industrial and retail. He has been involved with a number of start up companies throughout the west and their national roll-outs, including Costco, Starbucks, Seattle’s Best Coffee, IKEA, Sur La Table, Eagle Hardware / Lowe’s. And he has been responsible for the work in the greater Seattle area for Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic, as well as the development of Krispy Kreme in the Northwest.