Do you think your fellow board members could use some training in the basics of community association law? Could the associations you manage benefit from several 1-hour teaching sessions? If so, then check out the LeClairRyan Community Association Team webinar library on the blog. With an ever-expanding array of webinars on topics ranging from board meeting minutes, to disclosure packets, to the Fair Housing Act, the webinar library can be accessed at any time and the webinars viewed at your convenience.

Also, stay tuned to the blog in the next few weeks for several announcements about new upcoming webinars.

The second annual Virginia Leadership Retreat came to a successful conclusion on Sunday. The LeClairRyan Community Association team departed from the Homestead around noon, along with the other conference attendees. The team would like to thank all of the participants who stopped by the exhibit table, entered the prize drawing, or attended Liz’s presentation.

We’ve now concluded our live blogging from the Retreat. Thanks for tuning in, and be sure to check back with the blog regularly for a wide variety of posts on cutting-edge topics related to community associations, as well as announcements about upcoming speaking events, webinars, and other free resources.

 

Day 2 of the Virginia Leadership Retreat at the Homestead. At lunchtime on Saturday, in the exhibit room, the vendors set up their displays. LeClairRyan’s Community Association Team spoke to the conference attendees about the firm’s Community Association practice, and handed out a wide variety of prizes ranging from golf balls, to umbrellas, to leather travel mugs. Below, Pam Faber and Dan Quarles staff the exhibit table.

 

 

 

Members of our LeClairRyan Community Association Industry Team have arrived at the 2nd Annual Virginia Leadership Retreat being hosted by the Community Associations Institute at The Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia this weekend. Approximately 120 CAI members and their guests from around the state gathered this evening for the welcome reception. Pictured below are members of our Community Association Industry Team. From left to right: Lori Schweller, Pam Faber, Will Sleeth, Megan Scanlon, Dan Quarles, and Elizabeth White, our team leader.

 

 

Pictured above are our CAI Team members with family member guests. Pictured, left to right: John Faber, Rachel Sleeth, Will Sleeth, Lori Schweller, Pam Faber, Valerie McDonald, Megan Scanlon, Dan Quarles, Jennifer Quarles, Elizabeth White, and Dean Short.

 

The LeClairRyan Community Association Team will be blogging throughout the weekend live from the Virginia Leadership Retreat at the Homestead. (For those of you unfamiliar with the Virginia Leadership Retreat, it’s the annual Virginia weekend conference/event sponsored by CAI that is exclusively devoted to the Community Association industry).

For those of you unable to attend the event, feel free to check in frequently for updates. Even if you’re attending the event, we encourage you to check in with the blog for the latest reporting from the LeClairRyan team.

 A reader recently asked us to comment on members’ rights to inspect their property owners’ association’s books and records, such as financial information and meeting minutes, pursuant to the Property Owners’ Association Act.

A member’s right to inspect records is not only governed by the provisions of the Property Owners’ Association Act, but also by the provisions contained within the Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act. The provisions of the two acts must be read in conjunction with each other, and therefore the interested member should review not only § 55-510 of the Property Owners’ Association Act in order to understand his rights, but also §§ 13.1-932 – 934 of the Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act as well.

This blog post is limited to a discussion of the provisions contained within the Property Owners’ Association Act, and at some future time we will likely make a post regarding the inspection provisions contained in the Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act.

Continue Reading Records Inspection Requests by Members: An Overview

Have you signed up yet for the annual Virginia Leadership Retreat sponsored by CAI? This year’s Retreat will be held on July 30, 2010 — August 1st at The Homestead in Hot Springs.

The LeClairRyan Community Association Team will be blogging live from the Retreat with updates on all of the key events. If you can’t attend the Retreat, be sure to check in regularly with the blog for timely posts on conference events and key speaker presentations.

On Thursday June 24th, LeClairRyan’s attorneys will be addressing a cutting-edge procedure that community associations are increasingly using to attempt to resolve disputes outside of litigation: "alternative dispute resolution" or "ADR".

Brian Muse, a member of LeClairRyan’s Community Association Industry Team, will be co-hosting the free webinar entitled "Making Alternative Dispute Resolution Work For You: Successfully Mediating Employment Disputes." Although the firm’s attorneys will be discussing ADR in the context of employment law, many of the principles of ADR that they will discuss are highly applicable to community association disputes, and therefore the webinar will be helpful to board members, developers, property managers, and other interested parties.

We encourage you to plan on joining Brian on June 24th from noon to 1 P.M. EST as he explains the pro’s and con’s of utilizing mediation as a means to settle disputes, and provides practical tips on how to prepare for and effectively participate in mediations so as to increase the likelihood of a positive result.

To register for this free event, click here.

 

Did you happen to miss last month’s Fair Housing Act webinar put on by LeClairRyan’s Liz White and Brian Muse? No problem — the webinar is available for viewing at your convenience. Just click here to be linked to the blog’s "Webinars" section to find links to this webinar as well as all of the team’s other webinars.