Incoming NELTA officers and directors for 2009-2010. Pictured are (top row l-r) Albert Antonio, second vice president, director David Buczkowski of Chicago Title Insurance Co. and associate director Larry Heffernan of Robinson & Cole...

Featured (from left) are panelists, Robert Soule of Lawyers Title/Commonwealth Land Title, John Hatem of Nixon Peabody, Pamela Butler O'Brien, of Stewart Title Guaranty, Tommye Moorehead Frost, of Fidelity National Insurance with Roberta Baker...

pictured (l-r) are panelists Kevin Cuff of the Mass. Mortgage Bankers Association, outgoing NELTA president, Ruth Dillingham of First American Title Insurance and Rich Patterson of CATIC with Roberta Baker, of NELTA and Fidelity National Title Insurance.

Past NELTA president, Matthew Cholewa of First American Title Insurance and his wife, Carolyn

Albert Antonio of Land America with his wife, Karen

Pete & Danielle Long of Robinson & Cole with John Braithwaite of Eclectic Title Company

Michael Farber, Esq. with one of his maps from his talk, "Finding the First Cornerstone" on the pilgrims and the original mapping of the New World in the 1600s on the Cape.

Doug Poutasse of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries was the final seminar speaker. He addressed the economic climate in New England and the country in general

(l-r) Cathy Jones, executive director of NELTA with Richard and Donna Meehan and Diane and Jim Monahan

Shown (from left) are: Harriet and Frank Sheehy with Sandra and Chris Schoen of Old Republic National Title Insurance

Incoming NELTA president, Joel Mandell of CATIC accepts the ceremonial gavel from outgoing president Ruth Dillingham of First American Title Insurance

Mark Winter of the American Land Title Association (ALTA) deliver's opening remarks.