Title Insurance for New Real Estate Attorneys: Understanding Coverage and Endorsements, Risk Mitigation

Course Details
- smart_display Format
On-Demand
- signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level
Beginner
- work Practice Area
Real Property - Transactions
- event Date
Thursday, July 17, 2025
- schedule Time
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
- timer Program Length
60 minutes
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This 60-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.0 CLE credits.
This CLE webinar will provide new real estate attorneys with an overview of the role of title insurance in a real estate sales transaction, providing protection for buyers, sellers, and lenders. The expert panel will examine the most recent ALTA policy provisions and commonly requested endorsements. The panel will offer best practices for evaluating coverage and endorsements that provide optimal protection for clients.
Faculty

Mr. Glosser’s primary focus is real estate, business, and corporate law. His practice combines transaction and litigation. He has been actively involved in the real estate industry as a broker, manager, developer and attorney since 1978. Mr. Glosser is thoroughly familiar with all aspects of real estate transactions and financing. He brings his entrepreneurial experience to the practice of law, enabling him to understand both the legal and business issues presented in each transaction. As an attorney, he assists clients with understanding and evaluating legal issues associated with business transactions, enabling clients to analyze risk, and make informed business decisions. Mr. Glosser is a frequent speaker on a variety of real estate topics, both locally and nationally.

Ms. Niver represents banks, insurance companies and debt funds in construction and permanent loans, debt restructurings and secondary market transactions, as well as working with market-rate and affordable housing developers and owners on financings, acquisitions and sales, joint venture arrangements, condominium regimes, and leases for all product types, including multifamily, retail, office and hotel, and frequently as part of complex mixed-use development and redevelopment and master planning projects nationwide. In addition to her broad background in CRE finance and development generally, Ms. Niver has had a career-long focus on affordable housing and community development, both as a real estate and commercial finance attorney, and formerly as an urban planner specializing in affordable housing finance and policy. She has extensive experience in community development lending, impact finance syndications and programmatic and policy issues related to affordable housing, and routinely provides legal advice to profit and nonprofit developers, financial institutions, investors, and community development entities engaged in all types of complex real estate development and financing transactions, specifically social impact investing and tax credit finance.
Description
Title insurance plays a critical role in insuring against certain risks for all parties to a real estate sales transaction including liens or other encumbrances on the property that could restrict its transferability and use. Practitioners must understand the intricate details of title insurance policies to effectively advise property owners, investors, lenders, and developers. They should also understand the most recent ALTA policy provisions and commonly used endorsements.
Listen as our expert panel provides a comprehensive overview of title insurance for new attorneys. The panel will discuss the role of title insurance in the sales transaction, necessary policy provisions and endorsements, and best practices for evaluating coverage for clients.
Outline
I. Introduction: the role of title insurance before, during, and after the transaction
II. Title insurance protections
A. Buyers
B. Sellers
C. Lenders
III. What to know about ALTA
A. 2021 ALTA policy provisions
B. Most requested ALTA endorsements
IV. Best practices for evaluating coverage and endorsements for clients
Benefits
The panel will discuss these and other key considerations:
- What role does title insurance play in real estate sales transactions?
- What protection does title insurance offer to buyers? Sellers? Lenders?
- What is the importance of ALTA policy provisions to practitioners? ALTA endorsements?
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