An IRELA CLE Webinar

Understanding and Drawing Legal Descriptions in One Hour

Richard F. Bales

MCLE approved for 1-hour Professionalism CLE credit

Registration is Free for IRELA Members
Non-Members ~ $50*

Courses on drawing legal descriptions usually involve the participants using protractors and triangular engineer's scales and spending long hours drawing out sample legal descriptions. But it doesn't have to be that way. Dick Bales has written a basic legal description class for attorneys. Dick believes that in one hour, attorneys will not only be able to understand metes and bounds legal descriptions, they will be able to draw metes and bounds legal descriptions--all by attending a one hour Zoom presentation. Participating attorneys should have the following at their desks: a few sheets of paper, a 12-inch ruler, and two pencils, one of which must have an eraser on the end.

Richard F. Bales

Dick Bales spent 47 years in the title insurance business. He is fully retired as of the end of 2024. He spends his time now tending his lawn (which includes conducting soil tests and using only natural fertilizer); riding his bike as often as he can; working on his book on the saga of George Wellington "Cap" Streeter and his fight to own the Chicago neighborhood (Streeterville) that still bears his name; and playing with (and reading to) his first grandchild.

 As head of the Education Committee of the Illinois Land Title Association (ILTA) for many years, Dick taught legal descriptions to countless title examiners. Dick has also spoken at many state conferences of the Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Association (IPLSA). He was a member of the joint committee of the American Land Title Association (ALTA) and the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) that drafted the ALTA/NSPS land title survey standards. He is an honorary member of both the IPLSA and the NSPS and a lifetime member of the ILTA.

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