PA Specific

Real Estate

Pennsylvania Title Law Boot Camp

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 7.2 Total
New York CLE Approved 7 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6 Total
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5 hours 56 minutes
Neil Stein
Christi Weber
Jeffrey Morris
Peter Kogan
With Neil A. Stein from Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein, P.C. + 3 others
Recorded July 29, 2025
Product ID 100403

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Overview

A Comprehensive Guide to Real Estate Title Law

A clear title is the foundation of any real estate transaction. Do you have the necessary skills to shore up critical title issues that undermine transactional foundations? This fast paced, comprehensive title law training will provide valuable information you can use to maximize title protections for your clients. Experienced faculty will take you through a crucible of title commitment analysis, title defect cures, insurance coverage maximization, and more. Arm yourself with cutting-edge title law tactics - register today!

  • Ensure your knowledge of real estate title issues is up to par.
  • Get the latest updates that affect title insurance policies and practices.
  • Be thorough in title reviews - confidently spot issues in land surveys and title commitments.
  • Obtain title insurance endorsements that fit the transaction and provide crucial protections down the road.
  • Efficiently cure title defects when title insurance endorsements are a less than optimal solution.
  • Analyze title insurance policies for last-minute additions that substantially change coverage.
  • Resolve critical title issues that arise after title insurance policies have been issued.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Title Law Updates
  2. Conducting Thorough Title Reviews: Analyzing Title Commitments and Land Surveys
  3. Maximizing Title Insurance Protections: Essential Endorsements, Negotiation Strategies, and More
  4. Curing Title Defects: Alternatives to Endorsements
  5. Spot-Checking the Title Insurance Policy: Locating Gaps in Coverage
  6. When Things Go Wrong: Dealing With Title Issues After the Policy Has Been Issued
  7. Ethical Considerations

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Product ID 100403

Credit Details

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 7.2 Total
New York CLE Approved 7 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6 Total
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  1. Title Law Updates

  2. Conducting Thorough Title Reviews: Analyzing Title Commitments and Land Surveys

    1. How Insurers Conduct Title Searches: A Brief Overview
    2. Insurer's Obligations Under the Title Commitment
    3. Analyzing Schedule A
      1. Preliminary Information: Verifying Dates, Amounts, etc.
      2. Name Variations With Individual Owners, Trusts, and Corporate Entities
      3. Complete and Accurate Legal Descriptions
    4. Schedule B-I
      1. Pending Litigation, Foreclosure, and Bankruptcy Pitfalls
      2. Last-Minute Deeds, Mortgages, and Liens That Fall in the Gap Period
    5. Taking a Close Look at Schedule B-II
      1. Standard Exceptions Explained
      2. Special Exceptions: Liens, Easements, and Other Considerations
      3. How Will Standard or Special Exceptions Affect the Transaction?
    6. Analyzing Land Surveys
      1. Minimum Survey Standards
      2. How to Order the ALTA Survey
      3. Reviewing and Correcting the ALTA Plan
      4. Reviewing Sample Land Surveys and Legal Descriptions
    7. Sample Title Review Checklists

  3. Maximizing Title Insurance Protections: Essential Endorsements, Negotiation Strategies, and More

    1. Removal of - or Coverage for - Standard Exceptions: Key Negotiation Strategies
    2. Insuring Over Common Risks - Which Endorsements to Obtain and Why
    3. Special Endorsements - Ensuring They Fit the Situation
    4. Key Endorsements for Survey-Related Issues
    5. Negotiating Endorsement Fees
    6. Advising Clients of Their Options - Risk vs. Cost Analysis
    7. ALTA Endorsement Updates

  4. Curing Title Defects: Alternatives to Endorsements

    1. Dealing With Breaks in Chain of Title, Including Estate Issues
    2. Title Curing Statutes
    3. Mortgage Releases and Alternatives to Release
    4. Title Indemnity Agreements
    5. ALTA Owner Affidavits
    6. Discharging Liens
    7. Unrecorded Leases
    8. Encroachments, Overlaps, and Other Boundary Issues
      1. Boundary Line Agreements
      2. Quiet Title Actions
      3. Adverse Possession Claims

  5. Spot-Checking the Title Insurance Policy: Locating Gaps in Coverage

    1. When to Obtain Pro Forma Policies
    2. Are the Necessary Endorsements There?
    3. Spotting Last-Minute Additions
    4. Working With Title Insurance Companies to Make Changes
    5. Locating Common Policy Mistakes
    6. Sample Policy Review
    7. Closing Protection Letters

  6. When Things Go Wrong: Dealing With Title Issues After the Policy Has Been Issued

  7. Ethical Considerations

    1. Duties of Competence and Diligence
    2. Conflicts of Interest
    3. Disclosure of Defects in Property
    4. Attorneys' Fees

Who Should Attend

This basic-to-intermediate level online seminar is designed for:

  • Attorneys
  • Title Insurance Agents
  • Title and Abstract Professionals
  • Real Estate Professionals
  • Lenders
  • Paralegals

Speakers

Neil A Stein
Neil A.
Stein
Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein, P.C.
Christi M Weber
Christi M.
Weber
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Jeffrey T Morris
Jeffrey T.
Morris
The Law Offices of Jeffrey T. Morris
Peter L Kogan
Peter L.
Kogan
Reed Smith LLP
Speaker bio
Neil A Stein

Neil A. Stein

Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein, P.C.
Neil Stein

is an attorney and principal at Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein, P.C. located in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. He has represented landowners, developers, institutions and non-profit groups for over 30 years in each and every phase of real estate law, including complex transactions, entity structuring, financing, land use approvals, land use litigation, eminent domain and real estate tax appeals. Mr. Stein is currently an adjunct professor of real estate law at the Temple University Beasley School of Law and lectures frequently to professional organizations. He also serves on the Legal Action Committee of the National Association of Home Builders, chair of the Political Action Committee, and a director of the Homebuilders Association of Bucks/Montgomery counties. In 2015, Mr. Stein was inducted into the HBA Hall of Fame. He has also served as a director and member of the Judiciary Committee of the Montgomery Bar Association. Mr. Stein has been designated as a Super Lawyer by Philadelphia Magazine in multiple years, as well as being recognized as among the Best Lawyers in America. He graduated magna cum laude from Temple University with a Bachelors of Business Degree in accounting and economics, is a cum laude graduate of the Temple University Beasley School of Law, and holds a Masters of Law (LL.M.) in taxation. Mr. Stein also served as research editor of the Temple Environmental Law Journal.

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Christi M Weber

Christi M. Weber

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Christi Weber

is a partner with Dinsmore & Shohl LLP. She focuses her practice on real estate law and commercial finance. She counsels commercial lenders, individuals, and business owners in all aspects of real estate and financial transactions including acquisitions, dispositions, title review, development, financing, and leasing, and has represented property owners and developers in the formation of condominiums and planned communities. Ms. Weber manages a broad and multifaceted real estate practice that also includes representing clients in disputes involving real estate developers, tenants, general contractors, and property owners. She earned her B.A. degree from Duquesne University and her J.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Ms. Weber is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.

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Jeffrey T Morris

Jeffrey T. Morris

The Law Offices of Jeffrey T. Morris
Jeffrey Morris

is an attorney with The Law Offices of Jeffrey T. Morris, where he practices in the areas of zoning, construction, and business and commercial litigation matters. He represents lenders in state, federal and bankruptcy courts, as well as corporate, transactional and construction litigation matters. Mr. Morris is a member of the Pennsylvania, Allegheny (member, Construction Dispute Resolution Group) and American bar associations, as well as the American Arbitration Association (Commercial Arbitration Panel). He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Mr. Morris earned his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

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Peter L Kogan

Peter L. Kogan

Reed Smith LLP
Peter Kogan

is counsel in the real estate group of the law firm of Reed Smith LLP. He represents clients in all major aspects of transactional real estate law, including property acquisition and disposition, land use and development, leasing and subleasing, and real estate finance and entity structuring. Mr. Kogan's clients have included large global retailers, professional sports franchises, hotel and restaurant developers, major industrial and manufacturing businesses, software and information technology companies, entities engaged in commercial transportation and waste disposal, and owners of retail and other properties. He focuses his practice on complex transactions involving the multi-purpose development and redevelopment of large-scale properties in Western Pennsylvania and elsewhere, which frequently include extensive and innovative arrangements with public and quasi-public agencies for the use of former industrial, commercial and institutional sites. In connection with such transactions, Mr. Kogan has assisted clients in securing public-private financing, and entering into partnership and development agreements governing the use and development of brownfield and grayfield sites. He has lectured extensively on issues of real estate law and commercial development in Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Kogan earned his B.A. degree from the University of Michigan and his J.D. degree, with honors, from Emory University School of Law.

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