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Real Estate Law: 6 Things I Wish I'd Known Sooner

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Montana CLE Approved 6 Total
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New Hampshire CLE Approved 6 Total
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5 hours 52 minutes
Nicole Simmons
Paul LeBlanc
R. Grace Rodriguez
Caleb Tomaszewski
Brian O
With Nicole L. Simmons from Taft Law + 4 others
Recorded September 16, 2025.
Product ID 100787

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Overview

Game-Changing Lessons That Could Save You Years of Trial and Error

Join seasoned real estate attorneys as they reveal hard-earned lessons that will help you build your real estate legal career - and avoid traps that have caught so many others. From representing buyers and sellers to dealing with lease matters, explore the common - and costly - mistakes real estate lawyers make. You will also learn how to leverage tech tools that make all the difference, get access to useful forms, and discover opportunities to really impress your clients. Learn the things many real estate lawyers wish they knew sooner - register today!

  • Be wary of pitfalls in the real estate transaction process from the perspectives of different parties.
  • Avoid lease mistakes that can complicate already oft-tenuous landlord-tenant relationships.
  • Review tech tools and tips that no real estate attorney should do without.
  • Get access to must-have documents, checklists, and templates that can save you hours of work and frustration.
  • Uncover real-world solutions to tough real estate legal dilemmas.
  • Forecast the business and tax implications of real estate deals to offer clients a service that sets you apart.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Real Estate Transactions: Mistakes I Made (and Saw Others Make)
  2. Mistakes I Made Representing Landlords and Tenants
  3. Handy Pointers and Tech Tools I Wish I'd Known Sooner
  4. Documents, Checklists, and Templates I Wish I Had Sooner
  5. Solutions to Challenges I Encountered
  6. Tips to Wow Clients: Understanding the Business and Tax Side of Real Estate Deals

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Credits Available
Credit Status Total
California MCLE Paralegal Approved 6 Total
Alaska CLE Reciprocity 6 Total
Alabama CLE Approved 6 Total
Arkansas CLE Approved 6 Total
Arizona CLE Approved 6 Total
California CLE Approved 6 Total
Colorado CLE Approved 7 Total
Connecticut CLE Approved 6 Total
Delaware CLE Approved 6 Total
Florida CLE Approved 7 Total
Georgia CLE Approved 6 Total
Hawaii CLE Approved 6 Total
Iowa CLE Approved 6 Total
Idaho CLE Approved 6 Total
Illinois CLE Approved 6 Total
Indiana CLE Approved 6 Total
Kansas CLE Approved 7 Total
Kentucky CLE Approved 6 Total
Louisiana CLE Approved 6 Total
Maine CLE Approved 6 Total
Minnesota CLE Approved 6 Total
Missouri CLE Approved 6 Total
Northern Mariana Islands CLE Approved 6 Total
Mississippi CLE Approved 6 Total
Montana CLE Approved 6 Total
North Carolina CLE Approved 6 Total
North Dakota CLE Approved 6 Total
Nebraska CLE Approved 6 Total
New Hampshire CLE Approved 6 Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 7.2 Total
New Mexico CLE Approved 6 Total
Nevada CLE Approved 6 Total
New York CLE Approved 7 Total
Ohio CLE Approved 6 Total
Oklahoma CLE Approved 7 Total
Oregon CLE Approved 6 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6 Total
Rhode Island CLE Approved 6 Total
South Carolina CLE Approved 6 Total
Tennessee CLE Approved 6 Total
Texas CLE Approved 6 Total
Utah CLE Approved 6 Total
Virginia CLE Approved 6 Total
Vermont CLE Approved 6 Total
Washington CLE Approved 6 Total
Wisconsin CLE Approved 7 Total
West Virginia CLE Approved 7.2 Total
Wyoming CLE Approved 6 Total
Delaware Certified Paralegal Program Approved 6 Total
Florida Registered Paralegal Approved 6 Total
Indiana Paralegal CLE Approved 6 Total
Montana CLE Credit for Paralegals Approved 6 Total
New Mexico Paralegal Division, State Bar of Approved 6 Total
Ohio Certified Paralegals Approved 6 Total
NFPA Approved 0 Total
Texas State Bar of Paralegal Division Approved 6 Total
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Agenda

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  1. Real Estate Transactions: Mistakes I Made (and Saw Others Make)

    1. Representing Buyers
    2. Representing Sellers
    3. Representing Other Parties

  2. Mistakes I Made Representing Landlords and Tenants

    1. Lease Drafting, Review, and Negotiations
    2. Evictions
    3. Other Landlord-Tenant Matters

  3. Handy Pointers and Tech Tools I Wish I'd Known Sooner

  4. Documents, Checklists, and Templates I Wish I Had Sooner

  5. Solutions to Challenges I Encountered

  6. Tips to Wow Clients: Understanding the Business and Tax Side of Real Estate Deals

Who Should Attend

This program is designed for attorneys. Real estate professionals, lenders, title insurance professionals, and paralegals may also benefit.

Speakers

Nicole L Simmons
Nicole L.
Simmons
Taft Law
Paul J LeBlanc Jr.
Paul J.
LeBlanc, Jr.
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
R. Grace Rodriguez
R. Grace
Rodriguez
Law Offices of R. Grace Rodriguez
Caleb G Tomaszewski
Caleb G.
Tomaszewski
Erchull Real Estate Group
Brian D O'Keefe
Brian D.
O'Keefe
Lippitt O'Keefe, PLLC
Speaker bio
Nicole L Simmons

Nicole L. Simmons

Taft Law
Nicole Simmons

is of counsel at Ballard Spahr LLP. She is a real estate and tribal law attorney who handles a wide range of commercial real estate transactions across the country. Ms. Simmons assists various real estate clients, including publicly traded net-lease REITs, with acquisitions (including sale-leasebacks), dispositions, and lease related matters. She frequently acts as lead counsel on large scale portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, and manages substantial due diligence teams on deals exceeding $100M. Ms. Simmons assists commercial, tribal and energy clients with acquisitions, leases, fee-to-trust transitions, land swaps, federal housing and Economic Development Administration grant-related due diligence, and curatives related to large-scale wind and solar projects across private, state, federal and tribal lands. Her experience includes negotiating and preparing purchase and sale agreements, leases, architectural and other design agreements, easements, restrictive covenants, and other real estate related documentation; assisting energy developers in acquiring, leasing and developing energy projects in Arizona that includes identifying curatives necessary for development, and preparing and negotiating easements, surface use agreements, crossing agreements, and other curatives under state, federal law and tribal law. Ms. Simmons has also provided outside general counsel services to various tribal entities and their Boards that includes advice regarding commercial, real estate, and labor and employment, gaming and general tribal law matters in state, tribal and federal forums across the country. She earned her B.S degree from Arizona State University and her J.D. degree from Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.

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Paul J LeBlanc Jr.

Paul J. LeBlanc, Jr.

Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Paul LeBlanc

is of counsel at Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP. He focuses his practice on advising clients in real estate development and finance matters, including purchase and sale transactions, real estate development ventures, commercial leasing, and lending transactions. Earlier in his career, he spent several years exclusively representing lenders in real estate and non-real estate lending transactions, making him uniquely positioned to advise institutional and non-institutional lenders and borrowers in loan transactions. He also draws on his time spent as a litigation associate to analyze legal and client issues, anticipating potential problems before they arise. He earned his B.A degree from University of Texas at Austin and his J.D degree, magna cum laude, from University of Houston Law Center.

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R. Grace Rodriguez

R. Grace Rodriguez

Law Offices of R. Grace Rodriguez
R. Grace Rodriguez

is a solo practitioner at Law Offices of R. Grace Rodriguez. She focuses her practice on real estate law. Ms. Rodriguez earned her bachelor's degree from Pizer College and her J.D. degree from Western State College of Law. She is admitted to practice law in California.

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Caleb G Tomaszewski

Caleb G. Tomaszewski

Erchull Real Estate Group
Caleb Tomaszewski

is an attorney at Erchull Real Estate Group. He earned his bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Northern Illinois University and his J.D. degree from Marquette University Law School. During law school, Mr. Tomaszewski had the opportunity to clerk for a local Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge, Waukesha County Corporation Counsel and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. These clerkships provided him with a diverse set of experiences that have translated to a unique and helpful knowledge of property and real estate law. Mr. Tomaszewski is admitted to practice law in Wisconsin.

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Brian D O'Keefe

Brian D. O'Keefe

Lippitt O'Keefe, PLLC
Brian O'Keefe

is the founding partner of Lippitt O'Keefe, PLLC, along with Norman L. Lippitt. He supervises the firm's transactional, real estate, business, and personal planning departments. During his more than 35 years as an attorney, Mr. O'Keefe has represented local, regional, and national entities in general business and corporate matters, including formations, financings, mergers and acquisitions, dispositions and dissolution. He has been distinguished with the highest ranking of AV by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. Mr. O'Keefe is outside general counsel to Realcomp II, Ltd, the largest real estate multi-listing service in the State of Michigan. Over the course of his career, he has been legal counsel in transactions with a cumulative value in excess of $1 billion. Mr. O'Keefe received his B.A. degree, cum laude from Michigan State University and his J.D. degree from Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan (Real Property Law, Business Law, and Taxation sections), Oakland County Bar Association, and American Bar Association (Business Law, Real Estate, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law sections). Mr. O'Keefe is admitted to practice law in Michigan; and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western districts of Michigan, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

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