Steeg Law Firm, LLC
Lillian E. Eyrich

Lillian E. Eyrich
Senior Associate

201 St. Charles Avenue, Ste 3201
New Orleans, LA 70170

Office 504.582.1243

Areas of Practice

  • Commercial and residential real estate
  • Secured transactions
  • Title examination
  • Title insurance law

Education

  • University of North Carolina (B.S., 1982)
  • Tulane Law School ( J.D., 1985)

Bar Admissions

  • State of Louisiana, 1985

Honors

Profile

Lillian E. Eyrich has over 25 years of experience practicing as a title insurance attorney. She is widely recognized by her peers as one of the best in the industry and has been honored by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers as the “New Orleans Best Lawyers Real Estate Law Lawyer of the Year” for 2012.

Ms. Eyrich has been with Steeg Law since 1999, where she coordinates insurance for numerous commercial and residential transactions, including hotels, office buildings, shopping centers, convenience store chains, and multi-state sales and loan closings, as well as homeowners’ purchases and refinance mortgage transactions.

Ms. Eyrich’s areas of practice include: title examination and underwriting of title insurance commitments, policies and endorsements, including multi-site transactions involving national title insurance companies’ national business unit clients; negotiation of purchase agreements, leases and servitudes/easements; review and preparation of sale, loan and lease transaction documents.

Recent Transactions

  • Title agent on a $50 million transaction for the sale and financing of a nursing home project in major metropolitan areas
  • Represented buyer on a transaction for the acquisition of an old supermarket site that will be rehabilitated and remodeled as a modern supermarket in a major metropolitan area
  • $22.8 million leader's title insurance policy for the renovation and rebranding of a luxury hotel in a metropolitan area
  • Title agent on a modification of a $65 million loan on a shopping mall in a major metropolitan area
  • Title agent on a $7.3 million loan on a chemical plant facility in the central part of Louisiana

Professional Activities

  • Member, New Orleans and Louisiana State Bar Associations
  • Member, Louisiana Land Title Association Legislative Committee (2002 - present)
  • Member and Past Chair, New Orleans Bar Association's Committee on Real Property Law
  • Member, New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Title Attorneys
  • Past Member, Louisiana State Bar Association Committee on Title Standards
  • Secretary, Board Member, New Orleans Commercial Real Estate Women
  • Member, Commercial Real Estate Women Network
  • Pro Bono legal work, Friends of a Studio in the Woods

Recognition

  • New Orleans Best Lawyers Real Estate Law Lawyer of the Year for 2012
  • Martindale-Hubbell - AV
  • The Best Lawyers of America - Real Estate Law (since 2008)
  • SuperLawyers - Real Estate
  • New Orleans Magazine - Top Real Estate Lawyers

Panels & Presentations

  • September 2012: "The Basics of Title Insurance," ABA Community Outreach Program
  • August 2011: “The Basics of Title Insurance: The Covered Risks, Exclusions From Coverage and Conditions of the Basic ALTA Policy Forms,” Lorman Education Services CLE seminar.
  • November 2010: "Title Insurance: The Covered Risks, Exclusions From Coverage And Conditions Of The Basic Alta Policy Forms," ABA Outreach series at The Louisiana Bar Association.

Civic

  • Hike for KaTREEna
  • Louisiana State Bar Association's Secret Santa program
  • Former Board Member, AIDS Law of Louisiana

Special Experience

  • Formerly in-house underwriting counsel to national title insurers (1989-1999)

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