AmTrust Title Insurance Co. named James Tarlton as regional underwriting counsel. He will focus on real estate markets in the Southeast.
“Jim is a veteran attorney who has a rich career both as a law firm partner and the founder and principal of his own law firms practicing residential and commercial real estate law,” AmTrust Title President Jason Gordon said in a release. “His decades of experience in title closings as both a title agent and lawyer with admission to three state bars will be invaluable to AmTrust, and we are delighted he is joining us.”
Most recently, Tarlton was the owner of Main Street Title Group, LLC, in Celebration, Fla., where he oversaw operations, including underwriting files, and handled title examination and title curative for national real estate clients focusing on multistate closings. As part of his practice, he formed his own title closing company Insight Title & Escrow LLC to act as both settlement agent and title agent.
“AmTrust is a respected name in the Southeast and South, and I am pleased to be joining a firm where my decades of experience in title closings, financing, underwriting, taxation and other related facets of commercial and residential law will now be part of a large, successful national team,” Tarlton said.
Before forming his own firm, he was a real estate attorney, practicing for 25 years with London & Thurber, LLC, and other firms in the Southeast, including in leadership roles focused on real estate transactional and estate planning law practice as well as probate services.