S.H. Spencer Compton is a Vice President and Special Counsel at First American Title Insurance Company. He is also Senior Counsel to First American's Eagle 9 Cooperative Apartment Insurance Division, and Senior Vice President at First American Exchange Company. Mr. Compton is the Budget Officer of the New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section. He has lectured and published articles about commercial real estate law and practice as well as title insurance, UCC insurance and 1031 exchanges. Prior to joining First American Title, he was a practicing real estate attorney, with an emphasis on commercial leasing and financing transactions, for 11 years in New York City. Mr. Compton earned his undergraduate degree in 1972 from New York University and his law degree in 1989 from Brooklyn Law School, where he graduated cum laude. Prior to law school, he was a screenwriter and film producer.