The NAR Settlement: Fact, Fiction, and Its Impact on the Marketplace

A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of the May 2024 webcast, The NAR Settlement: Fact, Fiction, and Its Impact on the Marketplace.

Misinformation has been pervasive in the media over real estate commissions. Dive into the heart of the National Association of Realtors Settlement with our dynamic learning session designed to equip you with the essential insights and strategies needed in the post-Settlement landscape.

Join Laura Murray, General Counsel of the Virginia REALTORS^®, and Sarah Louppe Petcher of S&T Law Group PLLC as we cut through the rumors, prophecies, and hyperbole to understand the real impact on the industry, from compensation changes to broader implications. This session helps you to navigate this seismic shift implementing necessary policy and likely new form updates used by real estate agents in the Commonwealth.

• Factors that can influence the decision for a jury or bench trial: statutes, court rules, jury instructions
• Rules of evidence: how hearsay and impeachment rules might make a bench trial better (or worse) for your client
• Financial considerations of a bench trial instead of a jury trial
• Stipulations in bench trials
• Expert witnesses in bench trials
• Reasons why a bench trial can create a better record on appeal
• Ethical considerations of forum selection

Faculty

Laura M. Murray, National Association of Realtors / Glen Allen

Laura Murray is the General Counsel of Virginia REALTORS^®. She joined the Virginia REALTORS^® staff in July 2014 and was appointed General Counsel in October 2017. She oversees all legal matters and manages the development of legal resources for the association. In addition to her duties as General Counsel, she has presented continuing legal education courses for attorneys in Virginia and is the author of the Real Estate Brokerage chapter in the Virginia Continuing Legal Education’s Real Estate Transactions in Virginia book.

Prior to joining Virginia REALTORS^®, Ms. Murray worked at the Northern Virginia Association of REALTORS^® for four years.

Ms. Murray earned her Juris Doctorate from the George Mason University School of Law, with a specialty certificate in regulatory law.

Sarah Louppe Petcher, S&T Law Group PLLC / Falls Church

Sarah Louppe Petcher was born and raised in Paris, France. After a stint as a family law attorney in Fairfax, she became General Counsel of the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors where she fell in love with real estate. During her tenure at NVAR, she not only learned about running a real estate association but came to understand the full picture of the real estate industry in the U.S. With this unique perspective, she partnered up with Toula Gross to form S&T Law Group and the 1031 Exchange Group with the goal to provide services to realtor associations, real estate brokerages, real estate agents, and members of the public involved in real estate transactions.

She received her Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees from Northwestern University, and her J.D. from George Mason University School of Law.