Hunter Richey & Eisenbeis, LLP

William S. Hunter

Mr. Hunter emphasizes real estate law and has been representing real estate developers, investors, brokers, and lenders since 1970. He has extensive experience in negotiating, documenting, and closing real estate sales and exchanges, commercial leases, financing transactions, joint ventures, and construction and management contracts. He has also handled subdivision, zoning, and other land use regulation matters, mortgage and trust deed workouts and foreclosures, and real estate litigation, including specific performance, broker malpractice, construction disputes, and fraud and misrepresentation cases. Mr. Hunter is experienced in planning the income tax consequences of real estate transactions and developments.

Mr. Hunter is an accomplished public speaker. He has spoken for the Association of Commercial Real Estate, the Building Owners and Managers Association, the California Mortgage Bankers Association, the Sacramento Association of Realtors, Grubb & Ellis Company, TRI Commercial, Colliers International, Marcus & Millichap, and California Continuing Education of the Bar. Mr. Hunter was, for five years, an adjunct professor of law at Western State University College of Law teaching real property law, secured land transactions, and suretyship. Seminars Mr. Hunter has created and taught for real estate brokers, with Department of Real Estate accreditation, have included such subjects as tax-deferred exchanges of real estate under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code, the agency duties of real estate brokers, negotiating commercial real property leases, partnerships in real estate, and the drafting of deposit receipts and purchase and sale agreements.

Education:

B.A., History, Chapman College
J.D., Hastings College of the Law,
University of California
Graduated Order of the Coif and
Member of the Thurston Society (Top 5%)
Editor and Writer, Hastings Law Journal
L.L.M., Harvard University College of Law

Instructor:

Adjunct Professor of Law, Western State
    University, College of Law:
         Real Property Law
         Secured Land Transactions
         Suretyship
University of California, Davis, Extension:
Partnerships in Real Estate
Numerous courses approved by the California
Department of Real Estate for continuing
education credits for real estate brokers
Courses for the California Continuing Education of
the Bar, including commercial leasing law and
practice and dealing with contaminated properties

Memberships:

State Bar of California
Sacramento County Bar Association
Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court
for the Central District of California
Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court
for the Central District of California

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