Wayne Hyatt is a principal in the firm and represents clients across the United States and worldwide.  Wayne devotes his practice to working with developers of condominiums, master planned communities, resorts, and clubs to create community governance structures, create community stewardship organizations, and convert club membership programs to equity ownership structures.  A member of the Georgia, New York, and Texas bars, he received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University.

Wayne is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (Past President), the Anglo-American Real Property Institute (currently serving as its U.S. Chair), the American Law Institute; the College of Community Association Lawyers; Community Associations Institute; and ULI - the Urban Land Institute.  He is a ULI Trustee and is a member of the Community Development Council (Blue Flight).

He served as an Advisor to the Restatement of the Law (Third) Property: Servitudes and as an Advisor to the Special Committees on a Uniform Condominium Act and a Uniform Planned Community Act of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.  As an adjunct professor, Wayne taught community association law at Emory University School of Law and the University of Georgia Law School and taught negotiations at Vanderbilt University Law School.  From 1978-2008, he was faculty member and faculty chair of various American Law Institute-American Bar Association courses of study on condominium, community association, golf and country club matters, and conservation stewardship organizations.  Wayne founded the annual Community Association Law Seminar and served as faculty member until 1995.  He has spoken at numerous conferences and meetings before both professional and lay audiences.

Wayne created and edits Community Association Law Reporter and has written several books about community association law and numerous law review articles related to both community association law and to professionalism. Wayne served as a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserves.  He served on the University of Vanderbilt Law School's Alumni Board and on the University's Board of Trust from 2001-03. 

Publications:

Books:

Condominium and Homeowner Association Practice:  Community Association Law, ALI-ABA, 1981 (1st Ed.), 1988 (2nd Ed.), 2000 (3rd Ed.)
Condominium and Homeowner Associations:  A Guide to the Development Process, Shepards McGraw-Hill, 1985.
Co-Author with Susan F. French: Community Association Law: Cases and Materials on Common Interest Communities, Carolina Academic Press, 1998 (1st Ed.), 2008 (2nd Ed.)
Protecting your Assets:  Strategies for Successful Business Operation in a Litigious Society, ULI, 1997.
Contributing Author:  Residential Development Handbook, ULI, 1997.
Contributing Author:  Communities First!, Community Associations Institute, 1999.
Contributing Author:  Developing Master Planned Communities-2000 and Beyond, ULI, 1998.
Contributing Author:  Resort Development Handbook, ULI, 1997.
Contributing Author:  Developing Active Adult Retirement Communities, ULI, 2001.

Articles:

"Condominium and Home Owners Associations:  Formation and Development," Emory Law Journal, Fall, 1975.
"Common Interest Communities:  Evolution and Reinvention," 31 The John Marshall Law Review 303, 1998.
"A Lawyer's Lament: Law Schools and the Profession of Law," 60 Vanderbilt Law Review 386, 2007.
"Managing Risk in Projects with Community Associations," Urban Land, November, 1984.
"Reinvention Redux:  Continuing the Evolution of Master Planned Communities," Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal, Spring 2003.
Co-Author with James. B. Rhoads, "Concepts of Liability in the Development and Administration of Condominiums and Home Owner Associations," Wake Forest Law Review, Fall, 1976.
"Community Associations:  How to Draft Documents that Work," Real Estate Law Journal, Summer, 1978.
Co-Author with Robert C. Eager, "Neighborhood Revival Through Community Associations," Urban Land,  October, 1978. 
Co-Author with Linda B. Curry, "Legal Considerations in Commercial Planned Unit Developments," Urban Land, November, 1984.
Co-Author, "Modern Income Community Associations: An Action Manual for Housing Ownership in Urban Neighborhoods, HUD, 1980.
Co-Author with Linda B. Curry, "An Introduction to Condominium Hotels," The Practical Real Estate Lawyer, July 1985.
Co-Author with Jo Anne P. Stubblefield, "The Identity Crisis of Community Associations:  In Search of the Appropriate Analogy," Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal, Winter, 1993.

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