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Continuing Legal Education (CLE)

Upcoming CLE Programs

To be announced

Past CLE Programs

Master Class (CLE) Seminar:  Real Estate Credit Markets in Distress
Reid A. Mandel of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and Jon Van Gorp of Mayer, Brown LLP presented a Master Class on Real Estate Credit Markets in Distress.  After a brief summary of typical real estate securitization and structured finance transactions, the course explored the role of collateralized debt obligations ("CDOs"), credit default swaps and synthetic securities in the real estate finance market, the collapse of the subprime loan market, various structural impediments to bailouts for real estate loan pools and syndicated loans, attempted corrections through regulatory changes and credit enhancement, changes in the role and regulation of the rating agencies, fraud in the marketplace, TARP and TALF, and current developments (Appx. 24 CLE hours).

Ethics and Professionalism in Real Estate Transactions
Presented by Celeste Hammond (Professor and Director, Center for Real Estate Law at John Marshall), Tracy Kepler (ARDC), Virginia Harding (Gould & Ratner LLP; Adjunct Professor at  JMLS; Center for Real Estate Law Advisory Board), Janet Johnson (Schiff Hardin LLP; Center for Real Estate Law Advisory Board), Arthur Pape (The Pape Law Firm; Adjunct Professor), Barry Alberts (Schiff Hardin LLP)


The Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit and the Modern Cityscape
Co-sponsored with the Center for Tax and Employee Benefits.  Presented by Moderator Jim Peters (Landmarks Illinois), Glenn Graff (Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen), Steve Friedland (Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen), Allen Johnson (MacRostie Historic Advisors LLC) and Anne Sullivan (Sullivan│Preservation)


Affordable/Workforce Housing Requried?:  Challenges and What it Takes to Make it Happen
Presented by Professor David Callies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Nicholas Brunick, Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen, Joanna Trotter, Metropolitan Planning Council, Deborah Haddad, Holland & Knight, Allen Rodriguez, Charter One, Mary Ellen Tamasay, Consultant to Affordable Housing Organizations.


Part I of CLE Program on 1031 Exchanges "Beginning with the Basics"
Co-Hosted by The Real Estate and Tax Law Centers.  Presented by tax attorneys Steve Gustafson (Gould & Ratner LLP) and Michael Tuchman (Levenfield & Pearlstein)
(2 CLE credits).


Part II of CLE Program on 1031 Exchanges "Moving Beyond the Basics to the Complicated Issues"
Co-Hosted by The Real Estate and Tax Law Centers (2 CLE credits).


Real Estate Auctions - A New Way to Sell Non-Distressed Real Estate
Program Presenters: Steven Good, Esq. (Chairman and CEO) & Alan Kravets, Esq. (President) - Sheldon Good & Company  (2 CLE credits).


Ethics for the Lawyer Involved in Real Estate Transactions
Presented by Wendy Muchman.  Wendy Muchman is a senior counsel and group manager at the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois where she investigates and prosecutes lawyer disciplinary cases. She teaches legal ethics at Northwestern University School of Law as a member of its adjunct faculty (2 CLE ethics credits).


The Real Estate Tax Assessment Process in Illinois
Presented by Leonard F. Amari (JD, The John Marshall Law School; president of The John Marshall Law School Board of Trustees), Katherine Amari (JD, The John Marshall Law School) and other members of the Amari & Locallo firm.

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