March 2023
In This Month's Edition
- Don't Miss: TLTA Returns to McAllen April 15 for South Texas Seminar
- How to Focus Like It’s 1990
- TLTA Volunteer Roland Love Appointed to TTIGA Board of Directors and Awarded State Bar of Texas Standing Ovation
- Allegiance Title Welcomes Blair Raggio as President
- Register for TLTA's Annual Conference by March 31 and Take Advantage of Early Bird Pricing
Don't Miss: TLTA Returns to McAllen April 15 for South Texas Seminar
TLTA is excited to bring the South Texas Seminar back to McAllen on April 15, 2023. Whatever your role in the company, thanks to insightful expert-led education sessions on the most relevant topics in the industry, you will leave the South Texas Seminar with practical strategies that help you do your job even better.
South Texas Seminar
April 15
McAllen, Texas
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Featuring some of the hottest topics in our industry, our team of experienced title professionals from across the state built a
timely and informative educational program. Learn from top-rated instructors covering the latest industry need-to-know topics while earning your CE hours!
How to Focus Like It’s 1990
The New York Times | Jan. 9, 2023
In 2004, Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, watched knowledge workers go about a typical day at the office. Using a stopwatch, she noted every time they switched tasks on their computer, moving from a spreadsheet to an email to a web page to a different web page and back to the spreadsheet. She found that people averaged just two and a half minutes on a given task before switching.
Smartphones, pings and Insta-everything have shortened our attention spans. Get some old-school concentration back with these tips.
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TLTA Volunteer Roland Love Appointed to TTIGA Board of Directors and Awarded State Bar of Texas Standing Ovation
Dallas attorney G. Roland Love was appointed this month to the Texas Title Insurance Guaranty Association (TTIGA) Board of Directors. The Board consists of nine members, three title insurers, two title agents, and four public members, that serve staggered six year terms and oversee the association, which exists to protect Texas title insurance policyholders and claimants if a title insurance company or agency fails.
TTIGA Board of Directors
Jim Johnson*
Charter Title Company
Tim McDonald*
First National Title Insurance Company
Patti Bonner*
Stewart Title Guaranty Company
John Martin*
Lone Star Title Company of El Paso, Inc
Rickey (Rick) Albers
Attorney, Kuperman, Orr and Albers
Roland Love*
Independence Title Company
Patricia Nicholson
Attorney, Baker Monroe PLLC
Denise Holmes*
Title Resource Guaranty Company/ Independence Title
Christopher Williston, V
Independent Bankers Association of Texas
*TLTA Member
In addition to his TTIGA Board appointment, Mr. Love was honored this month by the State Bar of Texas with the Standing Ovation Award for his exceptional contributions in 2022 to the Bar's continuing legal education efforts. Mr. Love was one of eight volunteer lawyers receiving an award from the staff of TexasBarCLE, the Bar's division for providing continuing legal education and one of the premier providers in the nation.
Roland Love is an active TLTA volunteer and Local Legislative Liaison, chairing our Institute and Regulatory Committees and offering his expertise as a valuable member of many other TLTA committees, task forces and advisory groups, including the Legislative Committee and the newly formed Seller Impersonation Fraud Task Force.
Allegiance Title Welcomes Blair Raggio as President
Allegiance Title announced that Blair Raggio has been named president of the company. Raggio succeeds Dawn Moore, who remains with the company as president of AllFirst. under which Allegiance Title operates as a regional brand.
Before joining Allegiance Title as executive vice president in 2020, Raggio was an attorney with Holland & Knight in Dallas. Raggio graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA degree in Economics and received MBA and JD law degrees from SMU.
Read the press release »
Register for TLTA's Annual Conference by March 31 and Take Advantage of Early Bird Pricing
TLTA's Annual Conference and Business Meeting will be held in San Antonio June 19-21. Register before this Friday, March 31 to lock in the lowest registration rate.
TLTA Annual Conference
June 19-21
Grand Hyatt San Antonio Riverwalk
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This must-attend Texas title industry event is an opportunity for you to hear from speakers tackling the big challenges facing our industry today, connect with title professionals from across the state, and discover fresh strategies to raise your business to the next level.
Interested in sponsoring this event? Contact Josh Meeks at [email protected].