Michael J. Rooney
Real Estate & Title Attorney

Employment

Michael J. Rooney, Attorney, Licensed in Illinois

• Self-employed attorney, expert witness, consultant, 9/2011-present

State of Illinois, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation

• Supervisor, Title Insurance Section in Division of Financial Institutions, 9/2009-9/2011

Michael J. Rooney, Attorney, Licensed in Illinois

• Self-employed attorney, expert witness, consultant, 1/2007-9/2009

United Title of Texas

• President, DFW Division, 2005-2006

LandAmerica Commonwealth Title of Dallas

• President, Commonwealth of Dallas, 2003-2005

First American Title Insurance Company

• Regional Counsel, FATCO N. Central Region, 2002-2003
• Sr. V.P., Western Operations Manager ATI Title, 2000-2001
• Vice President, Arizona Division ATI Title, 1999-2000
  (joint venture with Wells Fargo)

Chicago Title Insurance Company

• Vice President, Dallas Area Manager, 1993-1998

Penta Corporation

• Business Development Director, 1991-1993

Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund

• President (CEO), 1988-1991
• Executive Vice President (CEO), 1983-1988
• Vice President and Counsel, 1981-1983
• Staff Attorney, 1976-1981
• Law Clerk (part-time), 1974-1976

University of Illinois

• Visiting Assistant Professor, 1983-1987

U.S. Army, 1971-1973

EDUCATION

University of Illinois, College of Law, 1973-1976

• Degree: JD, 1976
• Moot Court Team

Illinois State University, 1968-1971

• Degree: B.S. in Ed., 1971
• Major - Physical Education
• Minor - Political Science

North Park College, 1966-1967

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

• Draftsman, revised Recommended Uniform Rules for the Examination of Abstracts of Title, Approved by the Board of Governors, Illinois State Bar Association, 1977
• Author, Commentary to the above Rules. This publication began as a project of Independent Study under Dean John Cribbet during the third year of law school.
• Author, Searching Illinois Real Estate Titles (Ill. Inst. For CLE, 1978) one of only a few single-author books
• Author, Attorney’s Guide to Title Insurance (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 1980, revised 1984) another single-author book, also reprinted and marketed nationwide by theGeneral Practice Section of the American Bar Association
• Author, “Ownership and Development of Real Estate”, Chapter 10 in Basic Real Estate Practice (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 1979)
• Author, “Ownership and Development of Real Estate”, Chapter 1 in Basic Real Estate Practice, Vol 1 (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 1982, 1985 and Supp. 1988)
• Author, “Title Insurance Problems”, Chapter 5 in Legal Aspects of “Creative” Financing Techniques In a Tight Money Market, (Univ. Mo. at Kansas City Law Center, 1980)
• Author, “Residential Mortgages”, Chapter 5 in Advising Illinois Financial Institutions (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 1981, supp. 1985)
• Author, “Real Estate Broker Liability”, Chapter 9 in Professional Liability (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 1987). (Co-Author)
• Author, “The Art of Title Searching”, Chapter 11 in Ward on Title Examinations, (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 1986)
• Author, “Liability Problems”, Chapter 14 in Condominium Law (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 1987). (Co-Author)
• Author, numerous articles for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
• Author, “Bar-Related Title Insurance: The Positive Perspective,”1980 SIU Law Journal 263 (1980)
• Author, “Report on Professionalism: The ABA Attempts Suicide,” 75 Ill. Bar J. 480 (1987)
• Author, “Are Lawyers Really All That Bad?” The Compleat Lawyer (ABA General Practice Section: Vol.4, No.2, page 29 (1987)
• Editor, Brennan, Focusing on Clients, (ABA, 1990)
• Editor, Brennan, Focusing on Profitability, (ABA, 1994)
• Editor, “Attorney’s Guide to Title Insurance,” (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 2000), a multi-author update to the 1980 (1984 revised) single-author book.
• Editor, “Attorney’s Guide to Title Insurance," (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 2005) an update.
• Faculty, “Fourth Annual Real Estate Short Course”, (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 2008)
• Faculty, “Practical Professionalism for Real Estate Practitioners”, (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 2008)
• Author, “Title Problems”, Chapter 8 in Residential Real Estate (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 2008)
• Author, “Ethics and the Attorney/Title Agent”, 96 Ill Bar J. 132 (March 2008)
• Faculty, "Day on Real Estate", (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 2008)
• Faculty, "Fifth Annual Real Estate Short Course", (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 2009)
• Faculty ISBA Law Ed Program: "Real Estate Update", April 29, 2009
• Presenter, Legal Ethics portion of continuing legal education seminar sponsored by Professional National Title Network, June 13, 2009
• Faculty, "Sixth Annual Real Estate Short Course", (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 2010)
• Presenter, Legal Ethics portion of continuing legal education seminar sponsored by Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund, Inc., April and May, 2010
• Presenter, Legal Ethics portion of continuing legal education seminar sponsored by Chicago Title Insurance Company, April 24, 2010
• Speaker and Panel member on "Preventing Real Estate Fraud",
  Illinois Land Title Association Annual Convention, July 23, 2010
• Speaker, "Ethics for Environmental Lawyers", Illinois State Bar Association, September 24, 2010
• Faculty, "Seventh Annual Real Estate Short Course", (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 2011)
• Faculty, "CLE Fest", Illinois State Bar Association, June 18, 2011;
  Author, "Title Problems", Chapter 8 in Residential Real Estate (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 2011)

Volunteer Involvement

Metro-Tex Association of Realtors
(formerly Greater Dallas Association of Realtors)

• Board of Directors, 1998-1999, 2004-2005
• Affiliate of the Year, 1997
• Chair, TREPAC Golf Tournament Committee, 2004-2005
• Chair, Affiliate Forum, 1998-1999
• Chair, Leadership Alumni, 1997-1998
• Curriculum Coordinator, Leadership GDAR, 1996-1997
• Graduate, Leadership GDAR, 1996

Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education

• Chairman, Board of Directors, 1991-1992
• Member, Board of Directors, 1984-1993
• Volunteer instructor and author since 1978

Illinois State Bar Association

• Member, Joint ISBA/CBA Committee on Real Property Taxation, 1990-1992
• Member, Standing Committee on Protection of Public from the
  Unauthorized Practice of Law, 1988-1993
• Chair, Standing Committee on Insurance Programs, 1992-1993
• Member, Standing Committee on Insurance Programs, 1988-1993
• Chair, Real Estate Section Council, 1986-1987
• Member, Real Estate Section Council, 1983-1988
• Member, Task Force on Specialization and Certification, 1990
• Member, Standing Committee on Specialization, 1977-1978
• Charter Life Fellow of Illinois Bar Foundation

American Bar Association

• Member, Task Force on Nonlawyer Practice, 1992-1995
• Member, General Practice Section Council, 1991-1992
• Member, General Practice Section Advocacy Committee, 1992-1993
• Budget Director, General Practice Section, 1990-1991
• Member, General Practice Section Publications Board, 1988-1990
• Member, General Practice Section Program Committee, 1986-1990
• Co-Chair, General Practice Section New Publication Development Board, 1988-1990
• Member, General Practice Section Real Property Committee, 1979-1989
• Chair, General Practice Section Real Property Committee, 1983-1987
• Chair, Real Property Section Committee on Home Mortgages, 1989-1990
• Member, Real Property Section Committee on Conveyancing, 1978-1980
• Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation

American College of Real Estate Lawyers

• Member (elected in first year of eligibility), 1987-present