Despite their long tenure in commercial real estate transactions, the gap closing has been, and will likely continue to be, used with greater frequency.

Moving quickly in the final hours of the legislative session Tuesday, Kentucky lawmakers approved a bill exempting a slew of personal information from the state’s open records law.

The Virginia General Assembly recently passed emergency amendments to make certain changes regarding electronic and remote notarizations. These changes are effective immediately.y

Jason Bergman discusses the state of title insurance for foreclosures given RPAPL 1302-a.

The county Auditor’s Office is sending out the notices to encourage landowners to strike these covenants from their titles.

I would like to describe one piece of unfinished business remaining from my time as superintendent at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Curecanti National Recreation Area.

Howard County landowners who were not informed of the existence of an easement when they purchased their property are entitled to $3,000 in compensation for the difference in the value of the property, but not the $61,000 a court ordered them to pay the easement holders in a related lawsuit.

This is the second in a six-part series of articles covering basic water law in the United States, predominately in the western part of the country, and how it affects this finite resource. Water law has a long history. It can be traced back to Roman times and also has roots in English common law. Across the United States, it varies from state to state, and from East to West.

A Supreme Court decision raises new questions about tribal jurisdiction in land disputes.

If interested, there is a podcast about a similar supreme court case https://crooked.com/podcast-series/this-land/

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) in 2014 estimated that at least 770,000 people had been affected by land grabs that cover some 4 million hectares of land.

By now, we are used to the fact that facial recognition technology allows our phones to identify — to see our email, do our banking, order food and hail a ride service. But the pace is picking up. AI facial and voice recognition technologies can do more, faster. For those new lawyers and law student readers, take note: Privacy law is a growth field.

The New York State Land Title Association (NYSLTA) held a “Feeding Our Neighbors” fundraiser, a statewide virtual food drive, to kick off its 100th anniversary year. NYSLTA members will donate to Feeding America Foodbanks on Long Island, New York City, Westchester and Rochester.

Christensen told MReport the strong principles instilled in her by her ancestors and parents fuels her ongoing determination to impart on her contemporaries and the industry at large the importance of diversity and how it is paramount to successfully carrying out CBCMA’s mission of helping minorities build intergenerational wealth through homeownership.

Christopher Grooms, 41, Savannah, Georgia pled guilty to an Information charging him with a scheme to enrich himself by repeatedly borrowing money against the same pieces of property will go to prison for fraud.



For six days, the giant container ship blocked the Suez Canal, captivating the world and preventing toys and other important goods from making it to their destinations in a timely fashion. We laughed, we memed, but we did not remember our history.

Fugitive hid face on cooking videos but was IDed by his tattoos, reports say.