{"id":340,"date":"2011-04-26T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T19:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/?p=340"},"modified":"2011-04-26T15:18:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T19:18:43","slug":"massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court-requires-lawyers-for-the-lender-to-be-present-and-active-at-real-estate-closings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/2011\/04\/26\/massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court-requires-lawyers-for-the-lender-to-be-present-and-active-at-real-estate-closings\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court requires lawyers for the lender to be present and active at real estate closings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In answer to two certified questions from the First Circuit the Massachusetts high court has ruled that Massachusetts law requires the presence and substantive participation by a lawyer on behalf of the mortgage lender but that routine title examination does not constitute the unauthorized practice of law. The case is <a href=\"http:\/\/weblinks.westlaw.com\/result\/default.aspx?action=Search&amp;cnt=DOC&amp;db=MA%2DORSLIP&amp;eq=search&amp;fmqv=c&amp;fn=%5Ftop&amp;method=TNC&amp;n=2&amp;origin=Search&amp;query=TO%28ALLSCT+ALLSCTRS+ALLSCTOJ%29&amp;rlt=CLID%5FQRYRLT554249914264&amp;rltdb=CLID%5FDB611759914264&amp;rlti=1&amp;rp=%2Fsearch%2Fdefault%2Ewl&amp;rs=MAOR1%2E0&amp;service=Search&amp;sp=MassOF%2D1001&amp;srch=TRUE&amp;ss=CNT&amp;sskey=CLID%5FSSSA71909914264&amp;sv=Split&amp;vr=1%2E0\">Real Estate Bar Assn for Mass. Inc. (REBA) v. National Real Estate Information Services (NREIS)<\/a>, 2011 Mass. LEXIS 244 (Mass. 2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In answer to two certified questions from the First Circuit the Massachusetts high court has ruled that Massachusetts law requires the presence and substantive participation by a lawyer on behalf of the mortgage lender but that routine title examination does not constitute the unauthorized practice of law. The case is Real Estate Bar Assn for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1564],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mortgages"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5SHi7-5u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}