Dallas, Texas
Keith H. Mullen
Keith H. Mullen
Of Counsel
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9201 N. Central Expressway
Fourth Floor
Dallas, Texas 75231
- Texas (1981)
- University of Texas at Austin
- B.A., Plan II (liberal arts honors program), 1978, with honors
- Phi Beta Kappa
- University of Texas Cactus Goodfellow (honored as one of the 40 students)
- University of Texas at Austin
- J.D., 1981
- Named to “Best Lawyers” in America list, by BL Rankings, for Project Finance Law (2007-2019)
- The College of the State Bar of Texas
- American College of Mortgage Attorneys
- Association of Life Insurance Counsel
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Thomas M. Reavley, United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1981-1982.
Publications
- 11/01.18: ABA RPTE eReport (2018 Fall Issue) – Artificial Intelligence: Shiny Object? Speeding Train?
- 09/22/17: ABA RPTE eReport Technology & Law Practice Management Column – Make Life Better: Leveraging Tech
- 05/31/17: ABA RPTE eReport Technology & Law Practice Management Column – Luddites & the Law: Steps to Include Artificial Intelligence in Your Practice
- 11/30/16: ABA RPTE eReport Technology & Law Practice Management Column – New Years Resolutions: Consider these Tech Trends & Tips (part I of II)
- 7/26/16: ABA RPTE eReport Technology & Law Practice Management Column – The Commercial eMortgage: a Basic Skill in 3-5 years
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- 11/24/15: ABA RPTE eReport Technology & Law Practice Management Column – Mortgage Provisions Permit Lender to Scan & Trash Docs: 3 Key Questions
- 9/30/15: ABA RPTE eReport Technology & Law Practice Management Column – Avoiding Road Kill: Email Survival Tips
- 5/31/15: ABA RPTE eReport Technology & Law Practice Management Column – Legal Technology Coming to Your RPTE Practice? Tools Pointing to Change; Tips to Help You Change
- 3/31/15: ABA RPTE eReport Technology & Law Practice Management Column – What’s in Your Future? Creative AFAs? Crushing ALSPs?
- 10/30/14: ABA RPTE eReport Technology & Law Practice Management Column – Are Your Commercial Mortgage Documents “as Old as Dirt”? Beware of the Tech Wreck
- 8/31/14: ABA RPTE eReport Technology & Law Practice Management Column – Major Financial Institutions are Going Social: Why? How will it Impact You?
- 8/31/13: ABA RPTE eReport Technology & Law Practice Management Column – Is Technology Impacting Your Real Estate Practice? (Why Not?)
- 8/6/12: Texas Lawyer newspaper – Tips on how to use technology tools (part 2)
- 6/11/12: Texas Lawyers newspaper – Add Value by Harnessing Existing Tech Tools (part 1)
- 4/1/12: Law Practice Today – Company Counsel Under Siege: Build a Technology War Chest
- 3/1/11: Mortgage Technology magazine – Legal Insight: Technology adoption is bringing disruptive change to the world of commercial real estate finance
- 6/1/10: Texas Bar Journal: Web Links
- 1/1/07: ABA Probate & Property magazine – eChange Is Our Friend: The eMortgage
- 12/1/01: CMBS World magazine – Reviving Mortgage Loan Originations – Streamlining Suggestions
Speeches and Presentations
- 10/12/18: Artificial Intelligence – Invader in the Law Practice, American College of Mortgage Attorneys Annual Meeting
- 9/28/17: Make Life Better: Leveraging Technology, 51st Annual University of Texas School of Law – Mortgage Lending Institute
- 3/30/17: 5 Legal Tech Innovations for CREF Lawyers, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Corporate Counsel Committee quarterly hot topic call
- 9/29/16: 30 Tech Tips for Your CREF Practice, 50th Annual University of Texas School of Law – Mortgage Lending Institute
- 9/23/16: Technology & FinTech, 40th Annual Convention, Texas Association of Bank Counsel
- 10/17/15: The eMortgage . . . with Tech Trends and Tips, American College of Mortgage Attorneys Annual Meeting (and at the 12/15 meeting of the Real Estate Section of the Dallas Bar Association)
- 5/5/14: Social Media: New Tools…New Challenge, Panel Moderator at the Annual Meeting, Association of Life Insurance Counsel
- 4/15/14: New “Tech” Title Review Tools and Tech Provisions for CRE Loan Documents, Annual Regents Meeting (Technology Update), American College of Mortgage Attorneys
- 9/19/13: Technology and Mortgage Lending: Trends, Tips and the Ethical Overlay, 47th Annual University of Texas School of Law – Mortgage Lending Institute
- 3/7/13: How Technology is Affecting the Real Estate Practice, 24th Annual Advanced Real Estate Drafting Course
- 12/6/12: Technology for You and Your 2013 Law Office, 6th Annual Advanced Real Estate Strategies Course
- 11/13/12: 20 Minute Tech Face-Off: Tips, Goals, & Trends, American College of Mortgage Attorneys Annual Meeting
- 10/26/12: Commercial Mortgages & Technology: Old as Dirt Meets Jedi Knight; Mutual-Assured Destruction, a Clear Winner, or Both (?), 46th Annual University of Texas School of law – Mortgage Lending Institute
- 4/20/12: The iPad at Your Work, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Regents Meeting
- 10/14/11: Mortgage Lawyers & Social Media, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Annual Meeting
- 10/13/11: Generals of the Revolution – The Technology War Chest, Corporate Counsel meeting presentation at the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Annual Meeting
- 4/16/11: Why and How Will Technology Change the CRE Practice, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Regents Meeting
- 3/14/11: Why and How Will Technology Change the CRE Practice, DBA Real Property Law Section Meeting
- 10/1/10: Why and How Will Technology Change the CRE Practice, Dallas Area Discussion Group
- 5/23/10: Using Technology to Improve Servicing Processes, MBA’s Commercial/Multifamily Servicing and Technology Conference 2010
- 1/21/10: Troubled Times: Comments on the Capital Market, North Texas Chapter CCIM
- 5/14/08: Discussion on Digital Signatures, Panel Discussion at the MBA’s Commercial/Multifamily Servicing and Technology Conference
- 9/12/07: The Construction Loan Gone Bad – A Road Map, Client In-house Seminar Program
- 3/10/06: Commercial eMortgages: Get Ready, Get Set…, 17th Annual Advanced Real Estate Drafting Course, Dallas
- 11/4/05: TICs: Trends and Overview, CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) Continuing Education Seminar
- 10/6/05: Tenants In Common, 39th Annual University of Texas School of Law – Mortgage Lending Institute
- 9/28/05: Understanding the eMortgage Revolution, Dallas Bar Association
- 6/8/05: Tenants in Common: Lender and Servicer Legal Issues, Client In-house Seminar Program
- 5/10/05: Review of ALTA and CLTA Title Commitments and Available Endorsements, Client In-house Seminar Program
- 5/5/05: Technology: MBA’s 2005 Commercial Technology Survey, Panel Discussion at the MBA’s Commercial/Multifamily Servicing and Technology Conference
- 4/1/05: Tenants In Common, ABA 16th Annual Section of Real Property and Trust Law Spring Meeting
- 6/1/04: Legal Issues and Technology Solutions, MBA Commercial and Multifamily Mortgage Administration and Technology Conference
- 6/19/03: Closing Issues Workshop, MBA Commercial and Multifamily Mortgage Administration and Technology Conference
- 9/1997: Commercial Real Estate Leases: Negotiating Key Lease Provisions (Tennant’s Point of View), CLE International’s Advanced Conferences on Commercial Real Estate Lease
- 1991-1996: Speaker on various subjects at CLE International’s Advanced Conferences on Commercial Real Estate Lease
About Keith H. Mullen
A Commercial Finance & Leasing Lawyer, Working to Improve the Process and the Product
by Using Legal Technology
Keith represents commercial lenders, owners, tenants, and servicers across the United States, in a wide range of products and through every market cycle. This expertise includes creating, implementing and managing +17 lending, distressed debt and commercial leasing programs.
He understands that for a growing number of companies, the scope of work for legal counsel now includes this expectation:
Counsel must align legal work flow, and the delivery of legal services, with the Company’s business model, objectives and processes – including new uses of technology.
Expertise
- Commercial Finance: from program planning to loan closings and servicing tasks for banks, life insurance companies and non-bank lenders
- Leasing: space leases, ground leases, equipment leases and financing structures
- Real Estate Equity Investments: including multi-use projects, common ownership projects and 1031 structures
- Technology: a leader in new uses of technology as part of legal work flow, such on-line management of foreclosures and related actions, and the use of eSign, electronic documents and artificial intelligence
Experience
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Thomas M. Reavley, United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1981-1982.
- 30+ years representing commercial finance lenders and servicers, in a wide range of products and through every market cycle
Examples (almost all from a 24+ year tenure at the Winstead P.C. law firm):
- Winstead P.C.: created and led the Financial Services Industry Group, which directed the law firm’s legal expertise to discrete industry problems; created an online library of materials, speeches and presentations for use by clients; created a financial services blog (and wrote 400+ blog entries); created innovative uses of technology (for use in the law firm’s work flow) to address industry problems
- Engaged by a bank to sell its equipment lease portfolio; as part of the sale, we furnished information on the portfolio that resulted in a bonus payment to the law firm
- Engaged by a national retailer in the national roll-out of a new store concept (negotiated 65 big-box leases)
- Engaged by a bank to handle leasing (as tenant) of all of its retail and operational locations
- Engaged by a life insurance company to handle all leasing work (as landlord) for the two tallest office buildings in Dallas, Texas
- Engaged by a government sponsored agency to be its sole “outside general counsel” (nationwide) for all apartment workouts and foreclosures (engagement included creating an on-line tool for risk management)
- Consulting services to a bank establishing policies, procedures and forms for use in hiring, coordinating and monitoring outside legal counsel
- Engaged by a community bank to handle all commercial loan documentation
- Engaged by a national bank in its senior & assisted living construction program (focusing on new projects located outside of Texas)
- Engaged by several insurance companies in establishing co-lender commercial mortgage loan origination programs, and in creating loan closing and servicing agreements for the origination of commercial mortgage loans for the account of unaffiliated insurance companies
- Engaged by a bank to be its “outside general counsel” (nationwide) to handle all workouts, foreclosures, bankruptcies and related litigation of its national homebuilder finance platform
- Engaged by a life insurance company as sole outside counsel for its new capital markets group
- Engaged by a life insurance company to design and implement its new “construction to perm” loan program
- Engaged by a life insurance company to handle the largest mortgage loan ever funded by it
- Design and implementation of several single-family, builder finance loan programs (as national legal counsel) for numerous banks and commercial lenders
- Other experience: equipment leasing; C&I (balance sheet) finance; national retail (tenant) leasing; office building leasing; TIC lending structures; sale-lease back finance; CMBS finance; ground lease finance; registered notes; single-tenant office building leases; and credit tenant finance (including SVO compliance)
Professional & Community Involvement
- State Bar of Texas
- American Bar Association (Law Practice Division/Technology Section Liaison to the Real Property Trust & Estate Law Section; Editor of Technology & Law Practice Management column in ABA RPTE eReport)
- ACMA – American College of Mortgage Attorneys (Opinions Committee; Technology Committee)
- ALIC – Association of Life Insurance Counsel
Technology Column, ABA Real Property & Trust Section’s eReport
In this electronic newsletter, Keith comments on topics important to real estate lawyers (see below for links to columns written by Keith)