Consulting and Expert Witness Services
Working closely with all segments of the legal community to expeditiously perform escrow and title expert witness services in a professional manner and provide the most objective analysis in reports and testimony. Specialties include the following:
- Escrow and title industry standard practice
- Jurisdictional closing customs and practices
- Parties to an escrow and what role they play
- Escrow instructions – Southern California version
- Escrow instructions – Northern California version
- Escrow instructions – closing instructions from third parties
- Funds and escrow audits
- Funds from third parties
- Good funds practices
- Payoffs – institutional and private
- Drafting of documents
- Fiduciary duties – escrow holder
- Fiduciary duties – title insurer
- Improper title clearance
- Standard of Care for title and escrow personnel
- Interpretation of real estate documents and forms
- Interpretation of covenants, conditions and restrictions (“CC&R’s”)
- Operations