Nov. 4, 2009 – As every real estate and business lawyer knows, each condominium project involves a lot of paperwork, including bylaws, articles of incorporation, the declaration, rules, regulations, and the plat. Every lawyer begins that paperwork by referring to the Wisconsin Condominium Ownership Act, but the savvy lawyer goes further. He or she turns to the Drafter’s Guide to Wisconsin Condominium Documents, a nuts-and-bolts guide to condominium issues. Just supplemented for 2009, it’s the perfect complement to Wisconsin Condominium Law Handbook, also published by CLE Books.

The Drafter’s Guide begins with the statutes but goes far beyond. It includes sample forms, filings, and provisions that both satisfy the statutes and provide maximum benefit to your client. The authors, experienced Wisconsin attorneys Jesse S. Ishikawa and Brian W. Mullins, also point out situations in which the statutes are incomplete, ambiguous, or flawed, and offer suggestions for handling those matters. The Drafter’s Guide also provides practical advice on issues and problems all too often overlooked, ignored, or poorly handled in many existing Wisconsin condominium documents.

Erudite, enlightening, more entertaining than a law book should be, this newly- supplemented edition of the Drafter’s Guide to Wisconsin Condominium Documents belongs in the library of every attorney who deals with, or may someday deal with, condominiums, whether setting up or dissolving them, advising buyers or sellers, working in business or residential real estate, drafting documents or reviewing them. Priced for members at $75 (plus tax, shipping, and handling), indexed and with extensive appendices, this paperbound 250-plus page book comes with a CD-ROM containing all author-created forms and suggested sample language.

To order Drafter’s Guide to Wisconsin Condominium Documents, or for more information, contact the State Bar at (800) 728-7788 or (608) 257-3838, or visit www.wisbar.org/cle/books.

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