As a member of Legal Shield (formerly PrePaid Legal), I have access to good legal counsel whenever I need it. Legal Shield providers Lombino Martino have helped me write my will, develop a medical Power of Attorney, write a property easement, get out of a traffic ticket, and deal with all kinds of landlord-tenant issues. Now there is a new legal service available to real estate brokers through the law firm of McFerran & Burns:
IF YOU ARE LICENSED AS A BROKER…THIS SERVICE IS AVAILABLE TO YOU
Our law firm handles “ALL THINGS REAL ESTATE” and we are happy to answer your email questions on matters within our diverse practice area at no charge to you. You just have to be a licensed and active broker in the state of Washington. No, we don’t do divorce questions, but we do real estate, tax, business matters, bankruptcy, collections, short sales, tax deferred exchanges, easements, real estate litigation, landlord-tenant, escrow, title matters, just to name a few of the many areas of law we practice.
HOW TO PLACE YOUR LEGAL QUESTION… IT’S EASY
Just email us at legalline@mbs-law.com with your question and your name, agency, phone number and email address that we can respond to you. The attorney in our office best suited to answer your legal question will respond by email or phone within 24 hours and it is as easy as that. You get no bill. No salesman will call.
We look at all these various inquiries and categorize them. It helps me in designing my classes as it allows me to see areas in which brokers out there are seeking assistance. If a small number are of brokers in need of assistance in a particular area, then many others probably have the same questions. Our plan is to take the questions that come up week after week and create a weekly section that goes over that question with all of our Broker readers so we can all benefit from it. It can also help to produce new live classes.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SEND AN E-MAIL TO LEGAL LINE?
As a law firm we are regional, but by no means deemed a large law firm. We commonly refer to ourselves as a “Boutique Law Firm” as we are very limited in our practice areas focusing on real estate. We have 37 employees involved in all aspects of our practice. We have a complete escrow department in our law practice separate and apart from any title company. Of course we also have a staff in our short sale department. We have broken our law firm into what we call “Practice Groups” and if you send an email to our legal-line it will generally be referred to the attorney who heads a practice group for which your question relates.
This is a great service and at no cost as long as you are a licensed real estate broker.
Guest blog courtesy of McFerran & Burns, www.mbs-shortsales.com
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