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February 1 Registration deadline - Texas ALP Winter Board Meeting and Educational Conference - Laredo, Texas February 12 Deadline to submit intent to
bid for 2007 Annual Meeting (Contact Meetings Coordinator: Deidra J.
Daniels, PP, PLS, CLA, TSC February 17, 2005 Docket submission
deadline (Spring issue) February 25-27 Texas ALP Winter Board Meeting
and Educational Conference For the full member calendar, go to www.texasalp.org/calendar.htm |
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The Winter Board Meeting is next month. Have you registered? The February 1 registration deadline is fast approaching. And do we have some fun planned for you! Friday starts with the Directors’ workshop and committee meetings, followed by the Open Forum, Leadership Training, and the Business Meeting. Friday night offers the Welcome Reception with hors d’ oeuvres, a cash bar, and a pinata. Sounds like fun, right? Well, it gets better. Saturday is chocked full of CLE and Saturday night we’ll have an optional, no cost excursion across the bridge into Nuevo Laredo. Check out www.martis.com. Marti’s will be hosting a style show and reception at their beautiful shop in Nuevo Laredo, with complimentary tequila sours and light refreshments. Marti’s offers art, apparel, jewelry, furniture, housewares, and gifts—a little something for everyone. We will conclude the weekend with a come-and-go buffet breakfast on Sunday morning with ample opportunity for a final visit with your friends before heading home. Don’t miss the learning and laughter in Laredo—register now! |
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ARE YOU READY FOR THE PLS EXAMINATION? Want more time to review and study with someone? Do we have the opportunity for you!!! How about Certification Cram at the Border. AND IT IS FREE……. If you are coming to the TALP Winter Board Meeting, the Certification Committee will be holding a study course just for you. Just think, a place to ask questions, review material, and study with people that are taking the examination in the near future. Written Communications, Office Procedure and Technology, Ethics & Judgment, and Legal Knowledge & Skills along with a Mock Examination will be offered. You have studied hard and now it is time to get ready for the examination. Just remember keep pushing forward and striding towards your goal. If you can dream it, it will happen! This study course will be helpful to any member sitting for the ALS, PLS and/or in preparation of the PP. MORE INFORMATION ON THIS STUDY COURSE WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE CALL TO THE WINTER BOARD MEETING. |
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Checklist
Before Taking New Territory While reading my daily devotional for Leadership, I ran across the following excerpt that I wanted to share with each of you regarding teamwork: People need to be shown the team’s vision clearly, creatively, and continually. Wherever I endeavor to cast vision with the members of my team, I use the following checklist. I try to make sure that every vision message possesses . . . Clarity: brings understanding to the vision (answers what the people must know and what you want them to do) Connectedness: brings the past, present, and future together Purpose: bring direction to the vision Goals: bring targets to the vision Honesty: brings integrity to the vision and credibility to the vision – caster Stories: bring relationships to the vision Challenge: brings stretching to the vision Passion: brings fuel to the vision Modeling: brings accountability to the vision Strategy: brings process to the vision I hope that you can utilize this message in your daily leadership when working with whatever team you are on. WINTER BOARD MEETING LEADERSHIP SESSION: Remember we will be meeting on Friday, February 25, at 1 p.m. in Laredo for our Leadership Session. We hope you will join us. Look for more information in the Call and in the Leadership Newsletter that will be sent out this month. |
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Please notify Seville Drewfs,
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Texas Institute for Specialty Certification The Texas Institute for Specialty Certification is in the final stages of completing a specialty certification exam in Real Estate. According to the present time line, the first exam will be given in September 2005, probably on the same date that the PLS, ALS, and PP exams are given. More information, such as the locations, cost, and deadline for registering, will be available at a later date, hopefully at the Texas Association of Legal Professionals annual meeting in Houston in May. At the Texas ALP Board Meeting in Laredo in February, those of you who are interested in taking the exam will be offered the opportunity to anonymously pilot a random selection of 10 questions that may or may not be on the final exam. This experience will not affect either the integrity of the exam or your eligibility to sit for the certification in September or at a later date. A sampling of 10 questions is such a small percentage of the number of questions on the exam, that it is considered more like a mini mock or a practice test. So, if you are interested, please make arrangements to be available on Sunday morning, February 27, in Laredo, for a quick 15 minute test experience. Some of the real estate categories that will be covered on the final exam are as follows: ? Terminology ? Procedures–such as document preparation, execution, recording, and deadlines ? Purchase and sale of real property, including title matters, financing, documentation, and closing ? Encumbrances, limitations, and non purchase liens ? Involuntary termination of ownership, including foreclosure, eminent domain, condemnation, and others ? Landlord and tenant regulations ? Mineral and water rights Additionally, as in most certification exams, an application section will be included to test your ability to apply the specialized knowledge you have. If you are in a firm that has a real estate practice, your firm probably has all of the resources that you will need to study for the exam. However, the Institute has tried to keep to a minimum the resources on which the test is annotated. Obviously, the Texas Property Code is a primary reference, and should be available in all law offices. Two other primary references are the Texas Real Estate Forms Manual (which may be purchased from the State Bar of Texas) and Texas Real Estate, 9th Edition, by Charles Jacobus (ISBN: 0-324-23713-8 and may be purchased at www.thomsonlearning.com; www.barnesandnoble.com; and www.amazon.com). Secondary references include the Texas Probate Code and the Texas Family Code. For information, contact |
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