Title attorney vs associate attorney

Differences between title attorney and associate attorney duties and responsibilities

Title attorney example responsibilities.

• Manage local counsel's work on various legal actions including estate probate and establishment of trusts.
• Analyze and resolve complex real estate title and probate issues to ensure marketability of client REO assets.
• Clear titles involving defective foreclosures, environmental liens, probate litigation and faulty conveyances.
• Represent clients in litigation involving royalty payment and ownership disputes.
• Represent individual and institutional clients in all aspects of commercial and residential real estate acquisition, financing and leasing and foreclosure.
• Develop successful processes and procedures to insure client desire results at foreclosure sales and evictions.
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Associate attorney example responsibilities.

• Provide litigation support for general civil and probate litigation at trial and appellate levels.
• Attend arbitration hearings, conduct and attend depositions, and negotiate and evaluate settlements in arbitration and litigation disputes.
• Participate in all phases of commercial and construction litigation, arbitration, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
• Play instrumental role in all areas of litigation preparation, including authoring interrogatories, participating in depositions and preparing for trial.
• Prepare briefs and counsele clients in matters pertaining to unemployment and workers' compensation, including hearings and appeals.
• Represent contracting officers in administrative appeals.
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