Are Additional Opinion Limitations Appropriate to Address Emergency Orders Issued for the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Explore the Business Law Section's debate on whether opinion letters should include limitations for pandemic-related emergency orders.
Opinion Matters
Volume 5, Issue 1
Articles
Electronic Signatures and Legal Opinions
Provisions of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA).
Legal Opinions in Loan Modification Transactions
Issues to consider in preparing opinions on loan modifications, as the fallout of the pandemic can be expected to result in a surge in loan modifications and assumptions for borrowers and lenders ada…
Sufficiency of Collateral Description in U.C.C. Perfection by Filing Opinions: Incorporation by Reference
Distinction between a collateral description in a financing statement and one in a security agreement and, in particular, incorporating by reference, in the financing statement, an unattached, unfile…
Updating Real Estate Finance Opinion Letter Guidelines—Next Steps
An in-depth draft report on updating the 2003 Real Estate Opinion Letter Guidelines. It highlights changes in legal opinions and serves as a starting point for revising the guidelines.
Summary of Selected Recent Business Law Section Legal Opinions Committee Community Discussion Activity: January 2020 – June 2020
Summaries of recent discussion on the ABA Business Law Section Legal Opinions Committee Connect Community, in addition to the discussion on qualifications for emergency orders mentioned above.
Addendum to Opinions Matters: Spring 2020
Guidelines, the opinions committees of the ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section and of ACREL, along with the American College of Mortgage Attorneys (ACMA), have published jointly extensive…