{"id":413,"date":"2026-08-22T11:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2026-08-22T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:24:43","slug":"the-aba-publishes-the-fourth-edition-of-from-handshake-to-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/the-aba-publishes-the-fourth-edition-of-from-handshake-to-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"The ABA publishes the fourth edition of &#8220;From Handshake to Closing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Alterman is again in print!\u00a0 This month the Real Property, Trusts and Estates section of the American Bar Association published Dean&#8217;s third book, Dean&#8217;s revision and expansion of &#8220;From Handshake to Closing: The Role of the Lawyer in a Commercial Real Estate Transaction&#8221;\u00a0 by the late Sidney G. Saltz.\u00a0 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&#8217;s aphorisms on legal writing: using defined terms, modernizing archaic language, and avoiding the passive voice.\u00a0 (One snarky entry in the index reads &#8220;Voice, passive, to be avoided.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Alterman is again in print!\u00a0 This month the Real Property, Trusts and Estates section of the American Bar Association published Dean&#8217;s third book, Dean&#8217;s revision and expansion of &#8220;From Handshake to Closing: The Role of the Lawyer in a Commercial Real Estate Transaction&#8221;\u00a0 by the late Sidney G. Saltz.\u00a0 The book describes what commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alterman-law-group","category-dean-alterman","category-legal-writing","category-real-estate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Handshake-book-cover-2026-8.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}