Dean Alterman is again in print!  This month the Real Property, Trusts and Estates section of the American Bar Association published Dean’s third book, Dean’s revision and expansion of “From Handshake to Closing: The Role of the Lawyer in a Commercial Real Estate Transaction”  by the late Sidney G. Saltz.  The book describes what commercial real estate lawyers do as a transaction progresses from a letter of intent through the purchase and sale agreement, due diligence, title review, financing, and closing, all interwoven with some of Dean’s aphorisms on legal writing: using defined terms, modernizing archaic language, and avoiding the passive voice.  (One snarky entry in the index reads “Voice, passive, to be avoided.”)