Sterbcow Law Group LLC

Mr. Marx David Sterbcow is the Managing Attorney in the New Orleans based law firm Sterbcow Law Group LLC. Mr. Sterbcow’s practice focuses on areas of real estate law impacting large local, national, and international real estate development projects, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), Truth In Lending Act (TILA), federal and state mortgage lending and consumer credit compliance issues, real estate brokerage programs, affiliated business arrangements, marketing and promotional programs, licensing, commercial financing, and transactional matters. Marx has handled over 400 commercial and residential real estate transactions. He also represents clients in connection with predatory lending, RESPA, TILA, and other administrative enforcement actions.

Recently, Mr. Sterbcow was instrumental in helping Latter & Blum Realtors Inc. become the first full service real estate brokerage company world-wide to adopt a real estate transaction management platform system that encompassed Latter & Blum’s Essential Title, Essential Mortgage, and Latter & Blum Property and Casualty Insurance divisions.

Mr. Sterbcow is the only attorney in the State of Louisiana to have earned an L.L.M. in Real Estate law from the highly acclaimed John Marshall Law School’s Center for Real Estate Law in Chicago. He is one of fewer than 150 attorneys in the United States to have earned a master’s degree in Real Estate Law. Mr. Sterbcow was recently named as one of the top ten people to watch in Louisiana by Southern Woman Magazine and Greater New Orleans Living Magazine and is widely quoted by both local, national and international newspapers and magazines on national real estate industry issues.

New Orleans City Business named Mr. Sterbcow one of the Top Fifty attorneys in Louisiana in 2007. He was also named as one of the "Top 40 Under 40" in the United States Real Estate Industry by October Research Corporation’s The Title Report, The Legal Description, Real Estate Technology Insight, RESPA News, Valuation Review, Broker Newswire, and Real Law Central.

In addition Marx is a frequent speaker on RESPA and was selected by October Research Corporation to be one of six regular contributing attorneys nation-wide on the RESPA News’ Question and Answer attorney panel. He was most recently named as an Advisory Board Member by October Research Corporation for The Legal Description and RESPA News publications. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Real Estate Settlement Providers Organization (RESPRO) and serves on RESPRO’s Policy Committee. He was selected as the Legal Expert for the 2007-2008 National Real Estate Licensee & Broker Exams by the Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO) to help write and evaluate all test questions.