POSTPONED: Creative Solutions to Real Estate Title Problems
We apologize for any inconvenience, but this event is being postponed.
We will post the new date as soon as it's rescheduled. Thank you.
Throughout his career in the title insurance industry, Ward Graham's focus has always been on legal education and creative solutions to title problems in order to facilitate real estate transactions. Join us for a light breakfast at Backbeat Brewing Company (yes, Backbeat does Breakfast!) to ask all your real estate conveyancing questions.
Breakfast at 7:30am will be followed by Ward's presentation at 8am.
About our speaker
Ward Graham has been an underwriting and claims counsel in the title insurance industry for over 35 years, most recently joining Old Republic Title as Vice President and Senior Underwriting Counsel in 2016. After a tour of duty as a U.S. Naval Judge Advocate, Ward spent several years in private practice concentrating in the areas of real estate conveyancing and probate before entering the title insurance industry.
Ward is a longstanding member of the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts, for which he serves on the Standards & Forms Committee and Legislation Committee. He is also a member of the Abstract Club, a past president of New England Land Title Association and a past contributing author to the MCLE publication, Real Estate Title Practice in Massachusetts (2 nd ed. 2010)(specifically, Chapter 4 on Title Insurance, §4.2(c), reference to which was made by the SJC in footnote 42 of REBA v. NREIS, 459 Mass. 512, 534-535 (2011), for reference with respect to “Massachusetts case law relating to different types of marketable title promised in purchase and sale agreements”). He has participated in numerous seminars on topics of real estate law and title insurance and was a guest lecturer for several years for the Real Estate Litigation Course at Suffolk University Law School. Ward received his B.A. from Tufts University in 1975 and his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 1980.
