Gender Male
Bill Jansen is a partner in the law firm of Broker Risk Management, LLP, a firm he founded in 2002 to provide risk management services to real estate brokers and agents throughout California. Mr. Jansen was joined in June, 2017 by Vickie Naidorf as a law partner.
Broker Risk Management, LLP provides its clients with
A legal hotline for detailed
transaction and escrow advice. Legal updates and seminars on current topics, laws, forms and practice issues. Review of policies and regulatory compliance. Forms review and drafting. Previously, Mr. Jansen was a founder and principal of Soma Living Real Estate where he acted as broker of record, chief legal officer and member of the executive team.
Prior to Soma Living, for twenty-three years Mr. Jansen was an executive and broker with the Pacific Union family of companies overseeing risk management, claims and the integrity of the real estate transactions of the various brokerage operations in San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area.
Mr. Jansen was the 1986 President of the San Francisco Association of REALTORS® and for fifteen years (1980-88, 92-97) served on the Board of Directors of that organization. In addition, he has served for more than 30 years on the Board of Directors of the California Association of REALTORS® (CAR).
He has served on and chaired numerous REALTOR® committees at the state and local level. He is completing his second three-year appointment to CAR’s Strategic Planning and Finance Committee, and has been a member of the Legal Affairs Forum for more than 25 years, having chaired the Forum twice. In 2006, the California Association of REALTORS® honored Mr. Jansen by electing him to serve as a Director-for-Life. He has also earned the Certified Residential Broker (CRB) designation from the Real Estate Brokerage Managers’ Council.
In 2010, Mr. Jansen served on the California Department of Real Estate’s “Broker Supervision Task Force” which made recommendations to the Commissioner for possible legislative improvements or changes to DRE policy and related regulations, a number of which were implemented.
Mr. Jansen has been a Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) instructor in “Broker Practice” and a contributing author to the CEB publication “Real Property Sales Transactions.” He has been a speaker and panel member on numerous occasions for CAR’s Legal Affairs Forum, the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Alameda County Bar Association, The State Bar of California and the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service (JAMS).
Mr. Jansen received a Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota’s School of Law. He is a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco and California and American Bar Associations.
