8 Mistakes Experienced Real Estate Lawyers Usually Make

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Most commercial leases contain shocking drafting errors that clearly reveal their drafters’ lack of familiarity with best contract drafting practices and damage their personal reputations and credibility.  Many experienced real estate lawyers' contract drafting skills are woefully deficient until they take deliberate steps to hone them.  How confident are you about your contract drafting skills?  In this fast-paced one-hour program, we’ll explain some of the most blatant drafting errors using commercial leases from recent high-profile transactions.  We’ll make practical and imminently useful recommendations to help you avoid these drafting errors, improve the quality of any drafting project, and build a stronger professional reputation.  

Faculty
Lenne' Espenschied, Next Level Contracts

Lenne' Espenschied practiced law in Atlanta, Georgia for 25 years, focusing on corporate and transactional representation of technology-based businesses.  She is the author of two books published by the American Bar Association:  Contract Drafting:  Powerful Prose in Transactional Practice (3rd Ed.  2019), and The Grammar and Writing Handbook for Lawyers (ABA Fundamentals, 2011).After graduating from the University of Georgia School of Law magna cum laude, Ms. Espenschied began her corporate practice with a large, national law firm; she also served as Senior Counsel in the legal department of Bank of America before eventually opening her own law office.  As a law school professor, Ms. Espenschied taught commercial law, contracts, and contract drafting; she is a contributing faculty member at West Legal Ed.  She speaks nationally at continuing legal education seminars and provides private training at law firms and corporate legal departments.  Her passion is helping lawyers acquire the skills they need to be more successful in transactional practice.