CHAIR:

EVENTS:

COMMITTEES:

Sara H Arthur, Chair
Arthur Law Group LLC
PO Box 1470
Annapolis, MD 21404-1470
P: (410) 268-7788
F: (410) 268-7785
Private email address


Section Dues: $15.00 per year

Annual Meeting Programs

Real Property Planning and Zoning Section Breakfast, Business Meeting and Networking
Friday, June 14, 2013 | 7:30 am – 9:00 am

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To The Closing
Friday, June 14, 2013 | 9:00 am – 10:30 am

• Commercial Real Estate Attorney’s Discussion Group
• Foreclosure
• Legislative
• Land Use
• Education

Section Documents:

• Proposed Bylaw Edits/Updates
• Land Use Committee Fall Seminar Presentation
• IDOTs– Atapco Howard Square Trust v. Howard Co.- Md. Tax Ct. – Memo & Order
• Updated 2012 Legislative Summary
• Attorney General Memo on Tax on IDOTS- 6/12
• Land Use Seminar, May 11, 2012: New Rules After SB236
• Real Property/Tax Section Joint Networking 3/12/09 Sample Closing Protection Letter & Mini-Bio
• Nominating Committee Report 2012
• Articles, Publications and Matters of Interest
• Meeting Webcasts
• Opinion Matters

Video Replays:

• 2012 MSBA Annual Meeting — Will the meek inherit the earth, or merely a Life Estate?
• 2011 MSBA Annual Meeting — Understanding Maryland’s New Power of Attorney Act
• 2010 MSBA Annual Meeting:
  — "Bargaining With the Devil", Featuring Professor Robert Mnookin
  — Hot topics in Real Property and Environmental Law

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REAL ESTATE MENTOR PROGRAM:

The Maryland State Bar Association Real Property Section is again soliciting real estate attorneys to act as mentors to students at the University of Maryland and the University of Baltimore law schools. This is the third year of the Mentor Program and it has proven to be a success with the law students. The students at these schools have organized a real estate club and the students are interested in cultivating mentor relationships with attorneys in the real estate field. The expectation is that each mentor/mentee relationship is individual. The mentor should be willing to meet the student, and be intermittently available for telephone calls or e-mails with questions. It has been made clear to the students that these are not job opportunities and there are no expectations that this relationship will result in a job or contacts for a job. If you have acted as a mentor in the past and your mentee has graduated, please consider acting as a mentor again. This is a unique opportunity to influence the legal community of the future.

Mentor Information Sheet | Student Information Sheet

2011/2012 ANNUAL REPORT:

This Section produced its Advanced Real Property Institute, featuring a keynote speech by Federal Reserve Board Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin, in October. It continued to have strong attendance and great programming for its regular monthly Commercial Real Estate Discussion Groups, and, in the interest of making the Section’s electronic publication, Ground Rules, more timely, began publishing articles as they are submitted and accepted. The Section also formed a committee to focus more acutely on continuing legal education programming and will present a panel of Maryland judges, moderated by the Honorable Glenn T. Harrell, Jr., Court of Appeals, discussing issues of import to real property practitioners at the MSBA Annual Meeting.

PROCESS FOR APPOINTMENT TO SECTION COUNCIL:

Nomination to the Section Council typically occurs as a result of work on the standing committees of the Section. Typically, members of the Real Property Section Council reach out to other members of the Real Property Section that they have met over the years and invite them to be active on these committees. Real Property Section members can also request to be appointed to committees in the fall of the year and/or nominated to Section Council in the spring. A primary committee is the Legislative Committee. It has approximately 15 members. Another significant committee is the Commercial Real Estate Attorney Discussion Group. The Chairs of both of these committees serve on the Section Council.

Officers of the Section Council are chosen by a Nominating Committee, and are usually selected from persons currently on the Section Council. The progression as an officer of the Section Council is first nomination to be Secretary of the Section Council, then Vice Chair of the Section Council, then Chair of the Section Council assuming one's performance has been adequate each year.