On January 21, 2025, Sean Ponist will be moderating a distinguished panel of speakers discussing “Significant 2024 Real Estate Cases. ” The seminar will cover significant 2024 real estate cases affecting real property owners, buyers, sellers, agents, brokers, lenders, borrowers, consumers, developers, contractors and others. Mr. Ponist is the founder of the Ponist Law Group (PLG) and Chair of the Real Property Section of the San Francisco Bar Association. He has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer,” a distinction awarded to less than 5% of attorneys, from 2011 to present and is a Senior Fellow with the Litigation Counsel of America, a distinction bestowed upon less than 1% of lawyers, judges and scholars.

This presentation is sponsored by the San Francisco Bar Association. Click here to register for the event and here for the event flyer.

On May 17, 2024, Sean Ponist will be moderating and presenting a legal education seminar on “Successfully Arbitrating Real Estate Cases.”  Mr. Ponist is the founder of the Ponist Law Group (PLG) and Chair of the Real Property Section of the San Francisco Bar Association who is sponsoring the event.  He has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer,” a distinction awarded to less than 5% of attorneys, from 2011 to present and is a Senior Fellow with the Litigation Counsel of America, a distinction bestowed upon less than 1% of lawyers, judges and scholars.  The other panelist include PLG Of Counsel Attorney Cary McReynolds and two neutrals from ADR Services, Inc., Claudia Hagadus Long and Peter Smith.  

Most real estate agreements require arbitration—know the tips and tricks to win.  Hear from an experienced panel of attorneys and arbitrators as they discuss the keys to Successfully Arbitrating Real Estate Cases.

Topics to be covered include:

• Advantages and Disadvantages of Arbitration
• Selection of Arbitrators
• California vs. Federal Arbitration Act
• Defenses to Enforcement of Arbitration Agreement
• Special Requirements for Arbitrating Real Estate Disputes
• Enforcement Against Nonsignatories
• Arbitration Proceedings

This presentation is sponsored by the San Francisco Bar Association. Click here to register for the event and here for the event flyer.

On May 10, 2024, Sean Ponist, along with other distinguished real estate attorneys and appraisers, will be presenting at the Appraisal Institute’s 2024 Spring Litigation Conference.  The Appraisal Institute is the leading professional association of real estate appraisers, founded to help standardize the appraisal process by promoting professional education and upholding high ethical standards.  

Mr. Ponist’s presentation is entitled “How to Keep from Getting Excluded: Legal Traps and Pitfalls for Experts.”  The presentation will cover the procedural and substantive  expert witness disclosure requirements, expert depositions, handling communications between attorneys and experts, requirements for expert opinion, and exclusion of expert testimony

This presentation is sponsored by the Appraisal Institute.

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Please join us on April 30, 2024, to hear from Sean Ponist, mediator Debra Graceffa, and expert Steve Edrington as they discuss “Broker/Agent: Failure to Disclose and Agency Issues.”  This webinar will cover disclosures and agency issues commonly litigated in real estate transactions involving licensees. The panel brings tremendous experience as legal professionals, with many years of handling real estate disputes, to give the audience helpful insight into their legal practice and issues.  

Attorney Sean Ponist has personally successfully handled hundreds of such matters, both as in-house counsel for one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate brokerage companies and in private practice on behalf of buyers, sellers, agents, and brokers.  

This presentation is sponsored by the Alameda County Bar Association.

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Join us on September 15, 2023 to hear from Sean Ponist and Cary D. McReynolds as they discuss “Rescission of Real Property Transactions: Real World Tips and Traps” as they present to the Contra Costa County Bar Association. The presentation will provide an overview of real property rescission claims, with a discussion of important aspects beyond the basics and practice guides, including:

• Rescission in mixed defendant cases, where rescission applies to some, but not all defendants;
• In depth discussion of damages recoverable in rescission cases; and
• Pitfalls to be aware of in rescission actions and how to manage them

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Please join us on September 21, 2022 to hear from Sean Ponist and others as they discuss “Real Estate Standard of Care.” The seminar examines standard of care in real estate transactions for agents and brokers as well as duties of buyers/sellers. It will cover duties of agents/brokers in real estate transactions; agency law and dual agency problems; out-of-state problems—out-of-state brokers and out-of-state properties; buyer/seller obligations; and new case law update.

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