Closing Opinions: The Long and the Short of Them
Developments in opinion letter practice over the past several decades, including the Uniform Commercial Code Opinions Report.
Opinion Matters
Volume 4, Issue 1
Articles
Legal Opinions that a Mortgage Grants a Valid Lien and is in Recordable Form
The opinion states that a mortgage grants a valid lien and is in recordable form. It distinguishes this opinion from one regarding remedies or enforceability.
Special Delaware Bankruptcy Remote Opinions
In Special Delaware Bankruptcy Remote Opinions, walks the reader through the opinions generally expected and provided in transactions involving special-purpose, bankruptcy-remote, limited liability c…
Notes on Zoning and Permitting Opinions in Real Estate Finance Transactions, Part 2 of 2
The second half of Mitchell Meisner’s Notes on Zoning and Permitting Opinions in Real Estate Finance Transactions, appears in this issue. The first half was published in the Fall 2018 issue of Opinio…
Risk Management for Legal Opinions: Limiting Who May Rely on Your Opinion Letters
Continued Risk Management series of articles on who may rely on an opinion letter. In this issue he addresses syndicated loans.
Opinions Reports Continued: U.C.C.
The U.C.C. Opinions Report joins the 2012 Report and the Local Counsel Report, joint efforts of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, and the Attorneys’ Opinions Committee of the American Colle…
Whither Real Estate Opinion Letter Guidelines?
Report has been formed to consider current issues arising from the Statement of Opinion Practices, a report sponsored by the ABA Business Law Section Legal Opinions Committee and the Working Group on…
Summary of Selected Recent Business Law Section Legal Opinions Committee Community Discussion Activity, December 2018–April 2019
Summaries of listserve activity by our Committee and by the Business Law Section’s Opinions Committee discussion activity December 2018–April 2019.