Edward Jesse Levin

Professional and Civic Involvement

Member, American Bar Association (ABA)

Member, ABA Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law
Chair of Legal Opinions in Real Estate Transactions Committee (2009 to 2013)

ABA, Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, Real Estate Financing Group, Group Chair, (September 2014 - August 2016)

Member, Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA)

Past Chair, MSBA Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning (1988-1990)

Member, MSBA Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning, Legislative Liaison Committee (1983 to present)
Chair (1983 to 1985)

Co-Chair, Special Joint Committee on Lawyers' Opinions in Commercial Transactions of the MSBA and the Bar Association of Baltimore City (1987-1989)

Member, Special Joint Committee on Lawyers' Opinions in Business Transactions of the Section of Business Law and Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning of the MSBA (2004 to 2009)
Chair (2009 to 2010)

Member, American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) and chair of ACREL's Attorneys' Opinions Committee (1993 to 1999)

Member, Joint Drafting Committee of the ABA, ACREL, ACMA collaborative that prepared the Real Estate Finance Opinion Report of 2012, 47 Real Prop. Tr. & Est. L. J. 213 (2012)

Co-editor of the Local Counsel Supplement to the Real Estate Finance Opinion Report of 2012, 51 Real Prop. Tr. & Est. L. J. 167 (2016)

Legal Counsel to the Maryland Mortgage Bankers Association, Inc. (1995 to present)

Member, Baltimore Metropolitan Area Advisory Board, Chicago Title Insurance Company (1997 to 2013)

fellow, ABA Foundation

Life fellow, Maryland Bar Foundation

President, Baltimore Board of Jewish Education (now known as the Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Center for Jewish Education) (1989 to 1991)

• President, Baltimore Board of Jewish Education (1989 to 1991)

Publications and Lectures

• Co-author, An Overview of the Real Estate Finance Opinion Report Of 2012, Delaware Law Review, Volume 14, Number 2 (2014)

• Panelist, American Bar Association, Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, webinar in the 2014 Fundamentals of Commercial Real Estate program entitled, "An Introduction to Third Party Opinion Letter Policy and Some Practice Pointers for Transactional Attorneys," (March 19, 2014)

• Author, "What Is An SNDA and Who Needs One?" published in The Daily Record (January 17, 2014)

• Author, "IDOTs Still Work for Deposit Mortgages," published in BUILDING Magazine of Maryland-National Capital Building Industry Association, Inc. (MNCBIA) (January/February 2014)

• Author, ""IDOTs Are Still Alive, Use Them for Deposit Mortgages," published in Mid-Atlantic Builder (July/August 2013).

• Author, "Howard County Reimburses Taxpayers $587,000 in IDOT Case," published in The Daily Record, Baltimore, Maryland (July 31, 2013).

• Author, "Lenders Not Liable for Recordation Taxes on IDOTS," published in The Daily Record, Baltimore, Maryland (June 25, 2013).

• Moderator and Panelist on webinar entitled "You Want WHAT Opinions from Us? A Look at the Real Estate Finance Opinion Report of 2012" of the ABA Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law eCLE on June 19, 2013.

• Author, "Change in the Amount of IDOT the Triggers Tax and Exemption from Recordation Tax for Refinance of IDOTs and More," dated June 7, 2013. Posted at Ground Rules, The Blog of the Real Property Section of the MSBA.

• Author, "Maryland Changes Law Relating to IDOTs and Refinancings," published in ABA/RPTE eReport (June, 2013).

• Author, "New Law Relates to IDOTs, Refinancings," published in The Daily Record, Baltimore, Maryland (May 20, 2013).

• Speaker at MylesTitle Advisory Council Breakfast Seminar on "The Everchanging IDOT Issue," Hunt Valley, Maryland, May 16, 2013. Posted at Advisory Council Seminar Archive.

• Moderator and Panelist on "You Want WHAT Opinions from Us? A Look at the Real Estate Finance Opinion Report of 2012" at the ABA Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Spring Symposia in Washington, D.C., May 2, 2013.

• Panelist on "What's in Your Opinion? The Real Estate Finance Opinion Report of 2012" and co leader of workshops on the same topic at the ACREL Mid-Year Meeting on March 15-16, 2013 in Naples, Florida.

• Author, "Supplemental Instrument Exemption Applies to Indemnity Deeds of Trust," published in The Daily Record, Baltimore, Maryland (February 14, 2013).

• Author, "The Real Estate Finance Opinion Report of 2012: History and Summary," published in PROBATE & PROPERTY, Vol. 27, No.1, January/February, 2013.

• Author, "Committees Release the Real Estate Finance Opinion Report of 2012," published in ABA/RPTE eReport (December, 2012).

• Author, "Government Agency Opinions," published in ABA/RPTE eReport (December, 2012).

• Presenter of Hot Tips on The Real Estate Finance Opinion Report of 2012 (née the Annotated Real Estate Finance Opinion) and on Governmental Agency Opinions at ABA RPTE Leadership Fall Meeting, November 9, 2012, in Palm Beach, Florida.

• Presenter of Hot Tip on The Real Estate Finance Opinion Report of 2012 (née the Annotated Real Estate Finance Opinion) at ACREL Annual Meeting, October 19-20, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois.

• Speaker at MylesTitle Advisory Council Breakfast Seminar on "Maryland IDOTs, Past, Present and Future," Hunt Valley, Maryland, September 13, 2012. Posted at Advisory Council Seminar Archive.

• Presenter at "2012 Legislation, Including Issues Surviving the Demise of the IDOT" to the Commercial Real Estate Discussion Group of the MSBA's Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning on September 11, 2012 at the Hotel Monaco, Baltimore.

• Author, "The End of the Road for IDOTs?," published in The Daily Record, Baltimore, Maryland (May 21, 2012).

• Author, "The Beach, Bacon and Beard & Bone," published in The Daily Record, Baltimore, Maryland (May 14, 2012).

• Author, "Recent Cases Provide Guidance on Prescriptive Easements," published in The Daily Record, Baltimore, Maryland (February 21, 2012).

• Author, "Lessons from Fortress v. Dechert," published in The Daily Record, Baltimore, Maryland (January 17 and 18, 2012).

• Author, "Liable - Not Just Primarily Liable, or - Fixing an Attorney General's Opinion on IDOTs 20 Years Later," published in Ground Rules, Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning, Maryland State Bar Association (Fall 2009).

• Author, "What's in a Name? or, The Importance of Naming an Individual as Trustee under a Maryland Deed of Trust," published in Maryland Lawyer, in The Daily Record, Baltimore, Maryland (September 28, 2009).

• Author, "Commentary: Ending the Fear of the Fertile Octogenarian; Effective October 1, New Law Abolishes Rule Against Perpetuities for Commercial Transactions," Maryland Lawyer, published in The Daily Record, Baltimore, Maryland (September 24, 2007).

• Co-author, "Ethical Conduct and Liability to Third Persons in Legal Opinion Practice," published at American College of Real Estate Lawyers, The ACREL Papers 385 (ALI-ABA Fall 2002).

• Author, "Substantive Issues of Due Diligence for Legal Opinions", American College of Real Estate Lawyers, published in The ACREL Papers 315 (ALI ABA Spring 2000).

• Author, "Due Diligence, Legal Opinions and the Inclusive Opinion Report," published in Probate & Property (September/October 2000).

• Author, "A User-Friendly Opinion for Real Estate Lawyers," published in Probate & Property (July/August 1999).

• Co-author with Charles T. Albert, Maryland Real Estate Leasing Forms - Practice, published by Michie (now Lexis), (1988) and supplemented.

• Lecturer at and chair for seminars sponsored by ACREL, the ABA Sections of Business Law and Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, and the MSBA Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning Section.

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