Real Property Boot Camp

The Need

More and more real estate lawyers are becoming specialized without understanding the “Big Picture” of commercial real estate. Some real estate lawyers practice for years without fully understanding their clients’ goals and needs. The most successful practitioners understand both the real estate business and how they, as real estate lawyers, most effectively may accomplish their clients’ goals. Real Property Law Boot Camp gives recent practitioners the inside track to building the knowledge and skills base for a successful career and for the benefit of their firms.

The Program

An intensive 48+ hour Boot Camp with training on real estate transactional practice, including a primer on the business and “vocabulary” of real estate; key considerations for lawyers in buying, financing, developing, leasing, and selling real estate, negotiating deals, and drafting agreements; dealing with the real estate downturn, and career and business development. Complementing the substantive training are various games and activities to help cadets form a business support network with one another.

The Drill Sergeants

Training will be conducted by a “Drill Sergeant” team of experienced, effective and successful real estate lawyers in California, all of whom have extensive teaching experience. Drill Sergeants are available throughout the weekend for individual questions and advice.

Who Should Attend?

Boot Camp is intended for cadets with 1-5 years experience in transactional real estate law, who are looking to take the next step in their careers. Boot Camp also may benefit more experienced lawyers who specialize in a particular area of real estate practice but who want to learn about the ‘big picture’, or lawyers who are seeking to re-enter real estate practice after a hiatus for family or other reasons. Business lawyers, environmental lawyers, litigators and solo practitioners who want to quickly develop a real estate “tool kit” covering the real estate industry and real estate law also will find this an efficient and useful program.

Who May Attend?

This special Boot Camp is subsidized by the California State Bar’s Real Property Law Section and is limited to 45 qualified candidates. Applicants meeting the criteria of “Who Should Attend” will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis.

Graduation

The Office of Section Education and Meeting Services is an approved MCLE provider. Cadets who successfully complete this training will receive a minimum of 14.25 hours of MCLE credit.

Program Sponsor

The Real Property Law Section has enlisted the Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) as a platinum program sponsor for the 2012 Boot Camp. CEB will provide Boot Camp cadets free access for one year to all of its Real Property publications online ($1195 value). Sign up for the complimentary one-year subscription to CEB’s OnLaw Real Property Law Library onsite.

Real Estate Lawyer Boot Camp Training Agenda

Real Property Law Boot Camp Drill Sergeants

Elaine M. Andersson has more than 25 years experience in commercial real estate as an attorney, teacher, and businessperson. She is a past Chair of the Real Property Law Section, and has been recognized as a real estate “Super Lawyer” and as one of the “100 Most Influential Women in Business” in San Francisco. She has served on the Board of the Building Owners and Managers Association of California, and as President of Commercial Real Estate Women-San Francisco. She has taught in the law schools at U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Hastings, the University of Paris (France) and Golden Gate University (where she was also Associate Dean).

Julie Baird is Vice President and National Underwriting Counsel for First American Title Insurance Company, and previously was National Counsel for First American Exchange Company, LLC, where she was involved in all phases of exchange transactions. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Law Section, and former Managing Editor of the California Real Property Journal. In 2009, Julie was named as one of the “Top 20 Under 40” real estate professionals by the Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network.

Paul M. Kawakami is a partner with Sedgwick’s Real Estate & Finance Group. He specializes in the acquisition, development, sale and exchange of real estate; retail, office and industrial leasing; real estate financing and secured transactions, including acquisition, construction, mezzanine and permanent loans; loan modifications, workouts and restructurings; and the formation of joint ventures and LLCs. Paul currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Real Property Law Section of the State Bar of California, and he is a previous co-chair of the Real Estate Finance Subsection.

Robert E. Merritt (“Bob”) was a partner in the Walnut Creek office of Bingham McCutchen LLP until his retirement in 2004, and his practice included real property, construction, subdivisions, finance, land use and environmental law. He presently serves on the State Bar Real Property Law Section Executive Committee. Bob is a former member of the American College of Real Estate. He is considered one of the state’s leading authorities on the Subdivision Map Act. He has authored numerous other land use publications and articles and has lectured extensively on real estate development topics for CEB and other CLE providers.

Jeffrey A. Schneider is a partner in Vanguard Law Group, LLP, where he counsels clients in connection with real estate and business matters and negotiates complex real estate and business transactions. Mr. Schneider has been an adjunct law professor at California Western School of Law, and has taught programs for CEB, the National Business Institute, and various business groups and Bar Associations. He is a past Chair of the State Bar’s Real Property Law Section Executive Committee, and past Chair of the San Diego County Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Committee, and its Real Property Section.

Dr. Holly Schroth teaches Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and Organizational Behavior to both MBAs and undergraduates as a Senior Lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. In addition to teaching, she is a trainer, consultant and keynote speaker on negotiations and leadership issues to a variety of organizations in the United States and abroad, and has published articles on negotiation and procedural justice in leading journals.

Helen H. Kang Shin is a real estate attorney with the San Francisco and Palo Alto offices of Morrison & Foerster LLP. Her practice includes a wide range of real estate transactions, including leasing, financing and structuring joint ventures in connection with all major classes of property. Helen currently serves as a Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the California State Bar Real Property Law Section, is the editor of the monthly e-Bulletin of the Real Property Law Section, and serves on the junior board of Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco. Helen received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Susan T. Taylor is Assistant General Counsel-Real Estate for The Presidio Trust in San Francisco. Ms. Taylor has more than 28 years of experience in sophisticated and complex real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of office buildings, commercial leasing from both landlord and tenant perspectives, property management issues, and financing transactions for both borrowers and lenders. Her clients have included large institutional real estate owners and lenders as well as smaller companies and individuals. She is a past member of the Real Property Section’s Executive Committee.

Heidi A. Timken is a founding partner of Timken Johnson Hwang LLP, a law firm in Walnut Creek, California, specializing in real property matters. Heidi is a highly experienced trial attorney and was selected Northern California Super Lawyer in 2006 - 2011. Heidi is an active member of East Bay CREW, the local chapter of the national CREW Network, and recently has been elected to the national CREW Network Board of Directors.

Enlistment Fees & Quarters

February 10, 2012 Deadline

$1275 per person (includes 2 night hotel accommodations and resort fee, meals, self-parking, registration fee, materials, and one-year subscription to CEB OnLaw Real Property Law Library.)

Real Property Law Boot Camp is an all-inclusive registration package fee limited to 45 cadets. All training, events, and sleeping quarters will be held at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina, a waterfront resort in San Diego’s Mission Bay area. Real Property Law Boot Camp hotel reservations are for arrival on Friday, February 17 and departure on Sunday, February 19. Plan to arrive before noon on Friday, February 17 to register for the program.

Hyatt Regency Mission Bay
1441 Quivira Road
San Diego, CA 92109
619-224-1234

Boot Camp Enlistment Fee includes

• Boot Camp training and survival kit [materials]
• Minimum of 14.25 hours of MCLE credit
• 2-nights hotel accommodations (Friday & Saturday)
• Daily chow [breakfast, lunch & dinner]
• Boot Camp apparel
• Complimentary Parking
• One-year subscription to CEB OnLaw Law Library ($1195 value)

Transportation Options

The Resort is located 15 minutes from the San Diego International Airport (SAN). There are several transportation options, including: local Taxi service at $20 (approx.); Cloud 9 Shuttle (800-974-8885), 24 hour service, $13 pp; and AMTRA K which is six miles from the resort.

Boot Camp Enlistment Confirmation

Cadets will receive a registration confirmation by email, provided cadet supplies email address on enlistment form. The confirmation will verify enlistment in the program and hotel confirmation number.

Questions

Call (415) 538-2585 with program questions, or (415) 538-2508 for registration information or special assistance. Enlist before February 10, 2012. Space is limited to 45 cadets on a first-come, first-served basis.

Enlist before February 10, 2012

Space is limited to 45 cadets on a fi rst-come, first-served basis.

Printable Brochure

For your convenience, we have provided a printable version of the program brochure .

Register Online

You can now REGISTER ONLINE for this program.

Register by Mail or Fax

Print out and complete the Mail / Fax Registration Form , and return it with payment to the State Bar of California. One form per registrant.

BY MAIL: Program Registrations/Boot Camp, State Bar of California, 180 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

BY FAX: 415-538-2368. Credit card registrations only. If registration form is faxed, DO NOT mail original form.
Fax registrations cannot be confirmed by telephone.

Cancellations

The State Bar of California and the Real Property Law Section are approved State Bar of California MCLE providers.