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1. Recent Developments and Legislative Update
2. Title Insurance and Survey Review: What You Need to Know
3. Step-by-Step Through the Purchase Contract
4. The Closing
5. Ethical Challenges in Real Estate
6. Financing Commercial Property Acquisitions
7. Post-Closing Procedures

1. Recent Developments and Legislative Update
   8:30 - 9:00, Kenneth B. Chigges
2. Title Insurance and Survey Review: What You Need to Know
   9:00 - 10:00, Lesa C. Duvall
   1. The Title Commitment
   2. Requests and Revisions to Consider
   3. Survey Review: Why and What to Look For (Zoning, Setbacks, Easements, Right-of-Way Issues, Etc.)
   4. Beneficial and Burdensome Easements
   5. Determining the Best Course of Action When Dealing With Title Defects and Encumbrances
   6. The Title Policy and Endorsements
3. Step-by-Step Through the Purchase Contract
   10:15 - 12:00, Norman R. Newman
   1. Initial Considerations, Due Diligence Responsibilities and Disclosure Obligations on Commercial Real Estate Transactions
   2. Reviewing Pre-Negotiated Terms and Conditions
   3. Essential Elements of the Contract
      1. Parties Such as Business Entities and Trusts
      2. Granting Clause
      3. Legal Description of Property: Avoiding Pitfalls
      4. Purchase Price
      5. Real Estate Tax Proration
      6. Earnest Money Escrow
      7. Representations and Warranties
      8. Contingencies/Closing Preconditions
      9. Indemnity Provisions
      10. Environmental Provisions
      11. Default and Remedies
      12. Other Miscellaneous Provisions
4. The Closing
   1:00 - 1:30, Norman R. Newman
   1. Closing Checklist
   2. Closing Documents and Procedures: A Walk-Through
      1. Types of Deeds
      2. Closing Statement
      3. Other Forms
   3. Types of Closings: Escrow and Roundtable
   4. What to Do When Good Closings Go Bad
5. Ethical Challenges in Real Estate
   1:30 - 2:30, Matthew G. DeLaruelle
1. Attorneys' Fees Disputes
2. Who is Your Client?
3. Conflicts of Interest
4. Liability During Closing and Post-Closing Procedures
5. Disclosure of Defects
6. Duty to Report Unethical Conduct/Fraud
6. Financing Commercial Property Acquisitions
   2:45 - 3:30, Jeffrey A. Abrams
   1. Standard Bank Form Loan Documents
   2. Key Attorney Generated Loan Documents
      1. Notes
      2. Mortgages
      3. Assignment of Leases and Rents
      4. Guaranties
      5. Environmental Indemnity Agreement
   3. Drafting Resolutions to Address Authority Issues
   4. Lender Title Issues
   5. Insurance Certificates
   6. Seller Financing
7. Post-Closing Procedures
   3:30 - 4:40, Lesa C. Duvall
   1. Disbursement of Funds and Escrow Items
   2. Preparing the Closing Package to Send Back to the Lender
   3. Recorded Documents From the Recorder
   4. Policy Preparation
   5. Release of Liens and Encumbrances

JEFFREY A. ABRAMS is a member and president of the Indianapolis law firm of Benesch Dann Pecar, where his practice includes real estate, corporate, commercial lending, and alcoholic beverage law. Mr. Abrams represents developers, landlords, tenants, and lenders in all aspects of real estate transactions. He is the author of several articles that have appeared in the Indianapolis Business Journal and frequently has spoken for the International Conference of Shopping Center Law, ICLEF, and National Business Institute. Mr. Abrams is listed in Indiana Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, and Chambers USA Leading Lawyers for Business, and is counsel for the Indiana Commercial Board of Realtors. Mr. Abrams is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State, and American bar associations, and the American College of Real Estate Attorneys (ACREL). He earned his B.S. degree from Miami University and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Indiana University.

KENNETH B. CHIGGES is an attorney with the Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights Group at Ice Miller LLP. His practice areas include real estate; commercial real estate; commercial real estate contracts; commercial real estate development; shopping center acquisitions; shopping center development; leases and leasing; adverse possession; condominium conversions; condominium development; easements; real estate acquisitions, contracts, development, finance, leasing, and sales; real property; real property acquisitions, development, and finance; and right way of easements. Mr. Chigges earned his B.S. degree from Illinois State University and his J.D. degree from the University of Illinois College of Law. He is admitted in the state of Indiana and before the U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern districts of Indiana. Mr. Chigges is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association.

MATTHEW G. DeLARUELLE is an attorney in the Indianapolis office of Ice Miller LLP. He focuses his practice in all aspects of commercial real estate, including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, financing and developments. Mr. DeLaruelle represents regional and national real estate developers in connection with a variety of office, retail, hotel, industrial, multi-family, condominium, time share and mixed-use developments as well as international corporations in connection with real estate transactions throughout the country. Mr. DeLaurelle earned his B.A. degree from Purdue University and his J.D. degree from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. He is admitted to practice in Indiana and Missouri.

LESA C. DUVALL is the owner of Mishkin & Duvall PC, where her practice areas include business formations and transactions; business successions; construction law; corporate law; creditor's rights; domestic partnerships; employment law; family law; landlord/tenant; litigation; real estate and property law; and wills, trusts, and estates. Ms. Duvall handles everything from the simplest will, to the most complicated business litigation. She earned her B.S. degree, cum laude, from Ball State University and her J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Indiana University School of Law. Ms. Duvall is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, the Commercial Law League of America, the Indianapolis Law Club, and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

NORMAN R. NEWMAN is the senior partner in the Indianapolis office of Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, LLP. He graduated with distinction from the Indiana University School of Law. Mr. Newman practices in the areas of real estate law, environmental law and construction law and is the author of numerous articles on these subjects. He also has lectured on these topics for the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (ICLEF), the International Council of Shopping Centers, and other organizations. Mr. Newman is an adjunct professor at the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. He also is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. Mr. Newman is listed in Who's Who in American Law and The Best Lawyers in America.

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