Crain’s Event: https://www.chicagobusiness.com/events/real-estate-forum-series-1 “It was such an honor to hear Derek Dudley and James Reynolds about their plans that could provide an economic boost to the South Shore while also providing an insatiable demand for video and film production space nationwide. We are excited to see what the future holds! [gallery size="large" columns="2" link="none" ids="3158,3157"]
Nov 3, 2021Greater Illinois Title Company continued our legal education at Maggiano’s in Oak Brook with Joseph R. Fortunato, Jr. Esq., Partner, Momkus LLP giving an overview of the Illinois Case Law Updates; T. Nicholas Tyszka, Esq., Law Offices of T. Nicholas Tyszka, LLC, who gave a IRELA Update regarding new issues for the real estate practitioner; and Stanley J. Czaja, Esq., VP Midwest Region and Underwriting Counsel, WFG National Title Insurance Company who went over underwriting issues. GIT takes pride in continuing our legal education for attorneys and hope that our attorneys really learn from these CLE events. [gallery link="none" size="large" ids="3175,3176,3177,3178,3179,3180,3181"]
Oct. 5, 2021Greater Illinois Title Company continued our legal education at Maggiano’s in Oak Brook with Linda Grahovec, Vice President, IEP, ITP, NTP, FNF National Agency Director of Education and Marketing Strategy discussed New Fraud Schemes and Cybersecurity; Stanley J. Czaja, Esq., ITP – Vice President, Midwest Regional Manager and Underwriting Counsel from WFG National Title Insurance Company discussed Remote Online Notarizations (RON) in Illinois, as well as given underwriting updates and recent claim issues; and our National Title Services Group (NTSG) explained to attorneys how to assist your clients’ real estate needs outside of Illinois. Those speakers being Britney Sopher, Vice President of GIT National Title Services Group™ - NTSG™ Coordinator and Daniel Hyma, Vice President, GIT Group of Companies, National Title Service Group™. [gallery size="large" link="none" ids="3167,3172,3171,3170,3169,3168"]
June 8th, 2021Our “Preparing for the Future” CLE went through the discussion of Bankruptcy Title Issues, Foreclosed Properties Refreshed, the City of Chicago Findings, Decisions and Orders, as well as Remote Online Notarization in Illinois. We would like to personally thank Stanley Czaja from WFG for joining us and educating us on these topics. We appreciate the time you took to give us such a great presentation! We would also like to thank all the attorneys who attended our online CLE. Education is a huge part of GIT that we honor and we wouldn’t be where we are today without all of our attorneys. Last but not least, we would like to thank our President and CCO, Greg Kosin for setting up this CLE event and Erin Jenner for contributing…
April 27, 2021Our speakers at this event: Gina F. Llanas, Vice President and Chief Underwriting Counsel; Tim Meyers, Vice President Underwriting Officer; Ray Donato, Underwriting Officer & Commercial Officer; Erin Tracey Jenner, Senior Vice President of Production Operations and Director of Training; and Greg Kosin, President and Chief of Compliance Officer. Continuing Legal Education is something GITC takes seriously and we are happy to offer something to contribute toward that learning experience. We loved having so many attorneys virtually join us in discussing basic title forms. We also want to thank all of our speakers at this event for the information you shared. Going over these basic title forms truly helps our attorney’s understand the importance of each form and specific things people should be looking for.
Sept. 14, 2021Greater Illinois Title Company conducted a New-Attorney CLE. Big Thank You to our President Greg Kosin for allowing our knowledgeable SVP employees Erin Jenner & Guy Lundstrom and Guest Speaker Attorney Deborah Lifka for teaching such a great class of attorneys. GIT constantly moves forward as we Continue Legal Education for our Attorneys.
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Eisenberg Foundation:GIT continues to give back, show our love and support for multiple organizations. Our coworker, Sara O’Connor, is an active board member of the Eisenberg Foundation. The Eisenberg Foundation provides funding for life saving cancer research, as well as real estate mentorship and educational programs to provide a career path for today’s youth. Sara’s husband Patrick O'Connor has been successfully battling stage four esophageal cancer since March 2017. Their personal battle continues largely in part of research organizations like the Eisenberg Foundation.GIT supported this foundation by having employees contribute to a “jean day,” where employees could wear jeans for the workday to raise money. With the contribution of GIT employees, GIT raised over $1200 for the foundation.
Walk 4 HearingGreater Illinois Title Company raised money for our coworker Monica Pruess. GIT had a “jean day” where our employees donated to wear jeans in honor of Monica and her daughter, Ellie. With these funds it placed Monica, her family and team in 1st place in the Chicagoland area with having the most funds raised at an astonishing amount of $6,146 which surpassed Monica’s goal of last year’s amount of $2,725! Chicago alone raised over $62,000 at the event. Monica shared a story with GIT about her daughter.“Early in the spring, my husband was cutting grass outside and was wearing his wireless earbuds to listen to music. When he came in, my daughter noticed the headphones and then touched her hearing aids. We realized she knew that she had them…
