Opinion Standards Committee – Archive

Archive of past meeting Agendas/Minutes

Annual Convention 2022

• Meeting agenda

Winter Meeting 2022

• Meeting agenda
• January 2022 Attachment
• Bandera Master Fund LP v Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP
• Memorandum

Labor Day Retreat 2021

Meeting agenda

Annual Meeting, 06/221

Meeting agenda

Winter Meeting, 01/2021

• Meeting agenda
• Supplement (January 5, 2021)
• Redline – Supplement (February 1, 2020)FINAL) and Supplement (January 5, 2021)

Labor Day Virtual Meetings, 09/2020

• Meeting agenda
• Pace Industries
• Uptiering Opinions

Annual Meeting agenda 2020 

•  Meeting agenda
• Latest draft of the First Supplement. Marked, Clean

Winter Meeting agenda 2020

Retreat Meeting agenda 2019

Annual Meeting 2019 

• Meeting Agenda
• Fannie Mae Form Opinion
• Freddie Mac Borrower Opinion
• 2019 Annual Meeting – Opinion Standards – Selected Florida Statutes

• First Supplement to the Report on Third-Party Legal Opinion Customary Practice in Florida, draft dated November 11, 2019
• Statement of Opinion Practices
• Core Opinion Principles
• Explanatory Note

Winter Meeting 2019 Agenda.

Retreat 2018, Meeting Agenda

Annual Meeting 2018

• Meeting Agenda
• Statement on Customary Opinion Practices
• Statement on Customary Opinion Practices, Clean
• Core Opinion Principles
• Explanatory Note
• Statement of Opinion – Sources from Principles and Guidelines
• Email from Phil Schwartz

Winter Meeting 2018

• Meeting Agenda 
• Opinion Standards – Supplement (draft dated November 5, 2017)
• Email from Philip Schwartz
• Statement on Customary Opinion Practices – clean and redlined

Retreat 2017

• Meeting agenda
• Supplement (draft dated July 5, 2017)
• Hague Securities Convention Article from Business Law Today
• Supplement (draft dated June 14, 2017) – Supplement (draft dated July 5,…
• Case 3:17-cv-01325-VAB

Annual Meeting 2017

• ABA  Statement of Opinion Practices
• Core Opinion Principles
• Marked copy of the Statement showing the changes made to the Statement from the last version of the Statement that circulated to our committee
• Supplement, drafted June 14, 2017

Winter Meeting 2017 

• Meeting Agenda
• Statement on Opinion Practices
• Statement on Opinion Practices, Redline
• Supplement to the Report

Retreat 2016

• Agenda
• List of Attachments
• Letter to Interested Opinion Groups
• Statement of Opinion Practices, ABA
• Statement on the Role of Customary Practice in the Preparation and Understanding of Third-Party Legal Opinions
• Members of the Joint Committee
• Legal Opinion Principles
• Guidelines for the Preparation of Closing Opinions
• Chart of Sources for the Statement
• Comparison of the Statement and its Sources

Retreat 2014

• Agenda
• Draft of First Supplement to Report – Clean and Redline Draft

Midyear Meeting, 01/14

• January 2014 Meeting Agenda
• Winter 2013 Issue of ABA Legal Opinions Committee Newsletter

Retreat 2013

• Retreat Meeting Agenda
• Draft, First Supplement

Midyear Meeting, 01/13

• Meeting agenda
• Harbinger Capitol Partners Case
• Memorandum Regarding Tribar