Real Property Law Section Summer Meeting 2022
Join us in Philadelphia for our Summer Meeting! We are looking forward to reuniting with our colleagues in this historical city. Here are some of the highlights you can expect:
– 6.5 MCLE credits, including 1.0 in Ethics, 1.0 Diversity Inclusion & Elimination of Bias
– Discounted registration for guests/spouses and children (see below for rates)
– 50% off registration for first time Summer Meeting attendees (membership in the Real Property Law Section required)
– An evening at the Museum of the American Revolution including private access to its extraordinary exhibits
– Optional group activities in the afternoons for Golf at RiverWinds, Independence Hall, Eastern State Penitentiary.
– Reception and dinner at The Ritz and reception at the historic Sedgeley Club at Turtlepoint Lighthouse
– Daily breakfast buffet including July 24 day of departure
Program Chair: Gilbert Hoffman, Esq., Vanguard Research & Title Services, Inc.
Please Note: You must be vaccinated for COVID-19 to attend a live NYSBA meeting, program, or event.
Preregistration is also required for this program.
Section Member Price: $550 (includes 3 breakfast buffets, coffee breaks, program materials, 3 cocktail receptions, 2 dinners including an evening at the Museum of American Revolution, shuttle to Museum and exhibits).
NYSBA Member: $675 (includes 3 breakfast buffets, coffee breaks, program materials, 3 cocktail receptions, 2 dinners including an evening at the Museum of American Revolution, shuttle to Museum and exhibits).
Non-Member: $850 (includes 3 breakfast buffets, coffee breaks, program materials, 3 cocktail receptions, 2 dinners including an evening at the Museum of American Revolution, shuttle to Museum and exhibits).
1st Time Attendee: (50 percent discount)| Available only the Real Property Section Members attending their first summer meeting: $ 275.00 (includes 3 breakfast buffets, coffee breaks, program materials, 3 cocktail receptions, 2 dinners including an evening at the Museum of American Revolution, shuttle to museum and exhibits).
Guests: $200 (includes 3 breakfast buffets, coffee breaks, program materials, 3 cocktail receptions, 2 dinners including an evening at the Museum of American Revolution, shuttle to museum and exhibits).
Children 13 – 18 yrs: $100 (includes 3 breakfast buffets, coffee breaks, program materials, 3 cocktail receptions, 2 dinners including an evening at the Museum of American Revolution, shuttle to museum and exhibits).
Children 12 and under: $25 (includes 3 breakfast buffets, coffee breaks, program materials, 3 cocktail receptions, 2 dinners including an evening at the Museum of American Revolution, shuttle to museum and exhibits).
Optional Activities
Friday Afternoon July 22| Independence Hall Admission and Shuttle Adult: 20.00
Friday Afternoon July 22 | Independence Hall Admission and Shuttle Child 18 and under: $0
Saturday Afternoon July 23 | RiverWinds Golf & Tennis Club | Golf (includes 18-hole green fee, shuttle bus and lunch): $175.00
Saturday Afternoon July 23 | Eastern State Penitentiary | Admission and Shuttle: (ages 7 and up includes shuttle): 35.00
Eastern State Penitentiary: Admission and Shuttle: (Child 18 and under) $0
Thank you to our Sponsors!
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New York State Bar Association
Real Property Law Section Summer Meeting | Philadelphia
Thursday, July 21 – Sunday July 24, 2022
The Rtiz-Carlton, 10 Avenue of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
6.5 MCLE Credits
4.5 Areas of Professional Practice, 1.0 Ethics, 1.0 Diversity, Inclusion & Elimination of Bias
https://nysba.org/realpropertysummer22/
This program is transitional and is suitable for all attorneys including those
newly admitted.
Agenda
Thursday, July 21, 2022
2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Conference Check-in – Grand Ballroom Foyer
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Executive Committee Meeting – Grand Ballroom
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Reception and Dinner – Grand Ballroom
Friday, July 22, 2022
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Committee Breakfast Meeting
Grab breakfast in The Exchange Room and
join one of the Committee meetings listed below.
Climate Change Committee Meeting – 8th Floor Ben Franklin Boardroom
Title & Transfer Committee Meeting - 8th Floor Thomas Jefferson Boardroom
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Breakfast Buffet – The Exchange Room - 1st floor
9:00 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. Welcome and Introductions - Grand Ballroom
Section Chair
Spencer Compton
First American Title Insurance Company
New York, NY
Program Chair
Gilbert Hoffman, Esq.
Vanguard Research & Title Services, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
9:10 a.m. – 9:45 p.m. New York State and City Real Estate Legislative Update: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Speaker:
Spencer Compton
First American Title Insurance Company
New York, NY
0.5 Credit in Areas of Professional Practice
9:45 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Real Estate Update
A summary of recent cases affecting all of our practices: some troubling, some groundbreaking, some humorous, and often entertaining. Stay up to date with the cases shaping real property law and practice.
Speakers:
Michelle H. Wildgrube, Esq.
Cioffi Slezak Wildgrube P.C.
Schenectady, NY
Peter V. Coffey, Esq
Niskayuna, NY
1.0 Credit in Areas of Professional Practice
10:35 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
10:45 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. From Passive Inequality Watchers to Inclusion Builders: What
Disenfranchisement Teaches Us About How to be Positive Change
Makers
Description:
This session will cover the disenfranchisement of women and all in historically underrepresented groups, unconscious and confirmation bias -- what these terms mean and what the studies tell us about the invisible barriers women and minorities face, the profitability of diversity, and tools we can use to become diversity champions.
Speakers:
Sheryl L. Axelrod, Esq.
The Axelrod Firm, PC
Philadelphia, PA
1.0 Credit in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
11:35 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. - Remote Online Notarization is Here to Stay
New York has joined a majority of states in enacting remote online notarization ("RON") allowing notaries to remotely "meet" and identify signers with electronic means. In this segment, we will look closely at New York's new RON statute's requirements and evaluate best practices for using RON in our practices. We will also examine how the pandemic prompted efforts to approve RON, review national trends with RON, and identify the important changes for RON in NYS built into the current law.
Speaker:
Joshua S. Werbeck, Esq.
Bousquet Holstein PLLC
Syracuse, NY
1.0 Credit in Areas of Professional Practice
Optional Afternoon Activities
1: 00 p.m. - Departure of Shuttle Bus to Independence Hall Tour
Please Pre-Register for this group outing to ensure space on the shuttle.
Meet in Lobby. We will board the shuttle bus on the side entrance to the hotel (south 10 Square Street side).
After passing through security at Independence Hall, the tour given by the National Park Service and is about 15-20 minutes long. Visitors will see the Assembly Room (where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were both signed) on the first floor of the building.
Once exiting the tour, please feel free to visit the other building in Independence Square most of which require no tickets: West Wing exhibits, Congress Hall, Old City Hall, National Constitution Center, Ben Franklin’s grave at Christ Church and the Liberty Bell across the street.
Return The Ritz-Carlton: The shuttle bus will pick up at Independence Hall at 3:00 p.m. and 4 p.m.
5:15 p.m. Boarding shuttle bus to Reception
You may drive to the Sedgeley Club, limited parking is available.
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Reception
The Sedgeley Club
15 Kelly Dr, Philadelphia, PA 19130
On the shores of the Schuylkill River, just beyond the towering skyline of Philadelphia, lies Sedgeley Club, which houses the city’s only operating lighthouse and has a beautiful view of the river. The evolution of this charming building began in 1897 when a group of athletic-minded women longed for shelter, a spot of tea, and a storage facility for their bikes and barges. The dedicated women of this club have maintained the building and the lighthouse for more than 120 years.
Saturday, July 23, 2022
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Breakfast Buffet – The Exchange Room
9:00 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. Not-for-Profit Property Transfers: Rules, Risks and Case Studies
This presentation includes a brief overview of regulatory considerations and approvals in not-for-profit property transfer transactions. Speakers will also cover studies of New York not-for-profit health care providers that transferred property and the many necessary approvals and considerations that were involved, including approvals from the NYS AG, lenders, and licensing agencies, as well as implications of NFP property transfers on tax exemption status.
Speakers:
Emanuela D'Ambrogio, Esq.
Barclay Damon
Syracuse, NY
Bridget C. Steele, Esq.
Barclay Damon
Rochester, NY
1.0 Credit in Areas of Professional Practice
9:50 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Bankruptcy Sales of Real Estate
This presentation will cover the process of sales of real estate in bankruptcy, and discuss various legal issues in connection therewith, including transfer tax avoidance, and how such sales are free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances, and how to protect lessees from sales free and clear of their leases.
Speaker:
Daniel N. Zinman, Esq.
Kriss & Feuerstein LLP
New York, NY
1.0 Credit in Areas of Professional Practice
10:40 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Coffee Break
10:50 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. Ethics In Action
The panelists will discuss (with the help of the audience and chocolate) recent ethics opinions, together with common ethical issues encountered in practice.
Speakers:
Nancy A. Connery, Esq.
Schoeman, Updike Kaufman & Gerber, LLP
New York, NY
Anne Reynolds Copps, Esq.
Copps DiPaola Silverman PLLC
Albany, NY
1.0 Credit in Ethics
Optional Afternoon Activities
12:15 p.m. Golf – RiverWinds Golf & Tennis Club, 270 Eagle Point Rd, West Deptford, NJ
– Advance Registration Required
Meet in lobby and board the shuttle bus on the side entrance to the hotel (south 10 Square Street side). Shuttle will return golfers to hotel following golf and lunch.
https://www.riverwindsgolfandtennis.com/
The golf course at RiverWinds stays true to the heritage of historic courses in Scotland and Ireland. Nestled in the grasslands between scenic Woodbury Creek and the deep harbor marina on the Delaware River, the 18 hole championship course invokes visions of seaside golf. The water, surrounding wetlands and mile-long twisting burn create an intriguing setting. Across the water are breathtaking views of Philadelphia skyline.
RiverWinds provides a challenge for the best player; with five sets of tees, golfers of all skill levels enjoy the course. At the start, the mounded terrain is gentle, but becomes gradually more imposing as play progresses. The holes vary in direction, requiring players to use every club in their bag to battle the crosswinds and the tough terrain. Other natural landforms, indigenous foliage and sod-walled bunkers add to the excitement of the golf experience at RiverWinds.
1:30 p.m. Eastern State Penitentiary Tour, 2027 Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, PA
– Advance Registration Required
Eastern State Penitentiary was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world, but stands today in ruin, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers. Its vaulted, sky-lit cells once held many of America's most notorious lawbreakers, including "Slick Willie" Sutton and "Scarface" Al Capone.
Meet in lobby and board the shuttle bus on the side entrance to the hotel (south 10 Square Street side).
We will return to The Ritz-Carlton as a group.
5:45 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Shuttle Departure from The Ritz-Carlton to Museum
Museum of the American Revolution
101 S 3rd St, Philadelphia, PA
The Museum of the American Revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked America’s ongoing experiment in liberty, equality, and self-government. Through the Museum’s unmatched collection, immersive galleries, powerful theater experiences, and interactive elements, visitors gain a deeper appreciation for how this nation came to be and feel inspired to consider their role in ensuring that the promise of the American Revolution endures.
Dinner Speaker:
Megan Bowersox, Gallery Interpretation Manager
Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia
Shuttle will return guests to The Ritz-Carlton as needed.
Sunday, July 24, 2022
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Buffet Breakfast – The Exchange
Departure – Safe Travels and Thank You for Joining Us in Philly
- Peter V. Coffey, Peter Coffey Household
- Spencer Compton, First American Title Insurance Company
- Nancy A. Connery, Schoeman Updike Kaufman & Gerber LLP
- Anne Reynolds Copps, Copps DiPaola Silverman PLLC
- Emanuela D'Ambrogio, Barclay Damon
- Ariel Weinstock, Katsky Korins LLP
- Joshua S. Werbeck, Bousquet Holstein PLLC
- Michelle H. Wildgrube, Cioffi Slezak Wildgrube P.C.
- Daniel N. Zinman, Kriss & Feuerstein LLP
- Bridget C. Steele, Speaker, Barclay Damon LLP
- Sheryl L. Axelrod, Speaker, The Axelrod Firm
- In-Person
- RPLSSU22
- Real Property Law Section
- Committee on Continuing Legal Education
