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1. Update On Oklahoma Title Law: Statutes, Cases, Attorney General Opinions and Title Examination Standards
2. Title Examination - Title Insurance Commitments/Abstracts of Title/Surveys
3. Ethical Considerations
4. Transfer of Title
5. Preparing the Title Opinion and Issues in Title Insurance

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1. UPDATE ON OKLAHOMA TITLE LAW: STATUTES, CASES, ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINIONS AND TITLE EXAMINATION STANDARDS
   9:00 - 10:30, Dale L. Astle
1. Introduction
2. Statutory Changes
3. Case Law Changes
4. Attorney General Opinions
5. Title Examination Standards Changes
1. Examining Attorneys' Responsibilities
2. Need for Standards
3. Newest Changes to Title Standards
6. Oklahoma Abstractors Board Regulations
2. TITLE EXAMINATION - TITLE INSURANCE COMMITMENTS/ABSTRACTS OF TITLE/SURVEYS
   10:45 - 12:00, Robert N. Sheets
1. Organizing and Analyzing Information and Recognition of Defects
2. Survey Review
3. Forms of Opinion Letter and Checklists
4. Review Issues Relative to Particular Entity Ownerships (Including Partnerships, Limited Liability Companies, Trusts, Estates)
5. Marital Property Conveyance
3. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
   1:00 - 2:00, Robert N. Sheets
1. Attorneys' Fees
2. Conflicts of Interest Multiple Representation
3. Disclosure of Defects in Property
4. TRANSFER OF TITLE
   2:00 - 3:30, Robert N. Sheets
1. Voluntary Transfers
2. Legal Requirements for an Effective Conveyance
3. Types of Deeds
4. Involuntary Transfers
5. Foreclosures of Mortgages or Deeds of Trusts
6. Mechanics' Lien Foreclosures
7. Foreclosures of Tax and Other Liens
8. Adverse Possession
9. Condemnation
10. Reversion of Title
11. Forfeitures of Title
12. Private Covenants and Restrictions
5. PREPARING THE TITLE OPINION AND ISSUES IN TITLE INSURANCE
   3:45 - 4:30, Joe Struckle  
1. Organizing and Analyzing Information
2. What is Marketable Title?
3. Introduction to Title Insurance
4. Drafting and Negotiating Title Insurance Policies
5. The New ALTA Owner's and Lender's Title Insurance Policies
6. Availability of Expanded Coverage Policies Provided by ALTA
7. The Role of the State
8. Governmental Control

DALE L. ASTLE is senior executive vice president and general counsel of Guaranty Abstract Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a frequent presenter in seminars and educational conferences, has taught real estate transactions as an adjunct professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law and has written several articles covering various topics related to real estate law and Oklahoma land titles. Mr. Astle is the author of "Title Insurance," Vernon's Oklahoma Forms 2d, Real Estate (West 2000) and "Official Conveyances and Antecedent Records," Patton and Palomar on Land Titles, Third Edition (West, 2003) and "Transfer-on-Death Deeds in Oklahoma", 82 O.B.A.J. 651 (2011). He was selected for inclusion in the 2007 and 2009 issues of "Oklahoma Super Lawyers." Mr. Astle also has served as a member of the executive committee of the Abstractors and Title Insurance Agents Section of the American Land Title Association and as chairman of the ALTA Public Relations Committee. He is a past president of the Oklahoma Land Title Association and is a member of the Tulsa County, the Oklahoma and the American bar associations, the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the Tulsa Title and Probate Lawyers Association. Mr. Astle is a past chairman of the Real Property Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association and is a member of the title examination standards committee for the Oklahoma Bar Association. In addition, he has participated as a member of the Board of Directors for the Tulsa Title and Probate Lawyers Association, the Oklahoma Land Title Association and the Real Property Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association and has served on numerous committees of the OLTA and the OBA. Mr. Astle earned his A.S. degree from Northern Oklahoma College, his B.S degree from Oklahoma State University and his J.D. degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

JOE STRUCKLE has served as a vice president and general counsel of First American Title & Trust Company in their El Reno office since 2002. He also has served as the county manager for Canadian County since 2007. Mr. Struckle began his private practice in 1989, focusing on real estate (commercial and residential), probate and taxation. He earned his B.S. degree at Northwestern Oklahoma State University and his J.D. degree at the University of Oklahoma School of Law.

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