Practice areas: Real Estate
Licensed in Louisiana since: 1985
Education: Tulane University Law School
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2020 - 2025 Steeg Law Firm, LLC
201 St. Charles AvenueSuite 3201
New Orleans, LA 70170 Phone: 504-582-1199 Email: Lillian E. Eyrich Visit website
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Lillian E. Eyrich has more than 35 years of experience practicing as a title insurance attorney. Lillie is known for being meticulous with details and accessible to her clients, qualities that have attributed to her being widely recognized by her peers as one of the best in the industry. In both 2022 and 2012, she was honored by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers as the “New Orleans Best Lawyers Real Estate Law Lawyer of the Year.”
With the real estate transaction world faster paced than ever, Lillie is known for quickly figuring out what her clients need and responding in a timely fashion. She has a reputation for solving title insurance problems, so that a transaction can go through and not get stopped. As she says, “It is easy to let title problems put a brake on things and I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to take off the brakes. It is a crucial part of making business happen in the commercial real estate world.”
Lillie 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.
In addition to providing title insurance for closings handled through Steeg Law, as an attorney with Orleans Title, the firm’s in-house title insurance agency, she works with the national accounts offices of its underwriters, First American Title Insurance Company and Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, acting as the Louisiana title agent for multi-site/multi-state transactions, including the sale or refinancing of entire portfolios of commercial properties.
Lillie’s areas of practice include: real estate transactions, including negotiation of purchase agreements, leases and servitudes/easements; review and preparation of sale, loan and lease transaction documents; title examination and underwriting of title insurance commitments, policies and endorsements, including multi-site transactions involving national title insurance companies’ national business unit clients.
First Admitted: 1985, Louisiana
Professional Webpage: http://www.steeglaw.com/attorneys/lillian-eyrich/
- Member, New Orleans and Louisiana State Bar Associations
- Member, Commercial Real Estate Women Network
- Member, Past Secretary, Past Board Member, New Orleans Commercial Real Estate Women
- Past Member, Louisiana State Bar Association Committee on Title Standards
- Past Member, New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Title Attorneys
- Past Member, Louisiana Land Title Association Legislative Committee
- Member, Past Chair, and Past Vice-Chair, New Orleans Bar Association Real Property Law Committee
- Acted as title agent for the purchase and financing of theater complex in southwestern Louisiana
- Served as title agent for $3,393,375 acquisition of an industrial complex in St. Landry Parish, LA
- Acted as title agent in connection with financing of an assisted living facility in Alexandria, LA
- Served as local counsel for the franchisee of a fitness chain in forming the franchisee entity’s limited liability company and negotiating the lease for the business location in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Represented the purchaser of a 62,000-square foot shopping center in Franklinton, LA, anchored by a national grocery chain, purchase price $5,200,000
- Served as title agent for the purchase and financing of a shopping center in Lafayette, LA; issued owner’s policy of $24,000,000 and lender’s policy of $17,500,000
- Represented the purchaser of a 62,000-square foot shopping center in Franklinton, LA, anchored by a national grocery chain, purchase price $5,200,000
- Acted as title agent for the $3 million+ acquisition of a tractor supply company location in Winnfield, LA
- Former Board Member, AIDS Law of Louisiana
- Louisiana State Bar Association’s Secret Santa program
- Real Estate Law, Chambers USA, 2023
- New Orleans Real Estate Law Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers, 2022
- Real Estate Law (2020 - 2023), Super Lawyers
- New Orleans Real Estate Law Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers, 2012
- Real Estate Law (2008-2023), The Best Lawyers in America
- Top Real Estate Lawyers , New Orleans Magazine
- AV Preeminent , Martindale-Hubbell
- University of North Carolina, B.S. in Business Administration, 1982
- Tulane Law School, J.D., 1985
- Anyone who remembers using typewriters knows what a time-saver word processing software is, especially if you’re working on multiple documents that have a lot of the same information in them. With a few strokes and clicks of the keyboard and mouse, you can copy that information from one document to the next without having to retype all of the text, and then use the word processing program to reformat the text as needed in the different documents. Ta-da! – you’ve saved yourself a lot of time. Like so many things in life, there’s a catch: you need to be careful that you copy and paste only what you need in the second document. This is particularly true in legal documents, where having incorrect information can have very unfortunate results, as experienced by a title company in Nevada., Lessons in Title Insurance: Copy-and-Paste Can Save Time, but Is Fraught With Peril, Real Estate, Title Insurance, 2022
- Title insurance is a standard requirement in most real estate transactions and properly underwritten title insurance is needed for both lenders and property owners. When a project is for land to be developed, it is important for developers and lenders to know whether the building plans are allowed under current zoning and restrictions affecting the property, whether the building plans disclose any possible encroachments, and whether someone who has mineral rights or water extraction rights might damage the planned improvements. In this article, Lillian E. Eyrich, a senior associate and title insurance attorney at Steeg Law, provides an overview of the title insurance endorsements that are useful to developers and lenders for their construction projects., Title Insurance Endorsements for Projects Under Development, Steeg Law website, Real Estate, Title Insurance, 2021
- If you are purchasing or leasing property, or you are a lender making a loan to anyone who owns, is buying, or leases property, it is very important to make sure the property has proper, legal access to a public street or road., Author, Lease or Own Property? Ensure You Have Legal Access to Public Roads, Steeg Law website, Real Estate, 2019
- Williams v. Opportunity Homes, L.P.* is a recent decision by the Louisiana Supreme Court that will be of interest to people who own low-income housing developments, particularly properties with Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) restrictions on rental rates. In brief, owners of this kind of real estate will want to be sure that the tax assessor properly appraises their property so that it is fairly taxed., Author, Case Alert: A Recent Decision by the Louisiana Supreme Court Will Interest Owners of Low Income Housing Developments, Steeg Law website, Real Estate, 2018
Office location for Lillian E. Eyrich
201 St. Charles Avenue
Suite 3201
New Orleans, LA 70170
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2020 - 2025