Real Property Law Section

In public contracting, public entities must comply with bidding requirements in awarding contracts. Failure to strictly comply with requirements, including criteria stated in the bid solicitation, may allow a bidder that is not selected for contract award to “protest.” Read more

On this month’s What’s Up With Us, we will discuss Salisbury v. City of Santa Monica, a 9th Cir. case which held the FHAA is not applicable to occupants of a property who don’t sign a lease and don’t pay rent, and the case Gil v. Winn Dixie, an 11th Cir. case which held websites are not places of public accommodation under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Read more

In a year where everything we know has changed, attorneys need to continue to grow their practices and increase their visibility in the marketplace. Read more

This first part of the presentation will focus on substance abuse and provide highlights from Abraham Twerski's Book "Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception", as well as offer tips about how to identify other's behaviors , attitudes, and emotions as they journey through addiction. Read more

The panel will discuss and provide practical tips on cutting-edge issues facing attorneys, mediators, private judges and the Court. The discussion will include the ethical duties of court-connected mediators; confidentiality of mediation and proposed legislation to create exceptions to the Mediation Privilege; disclosure of conflicts of interest and the danger of the proceedings being voided; continuing jurisdiction for completion. Read more

Lawyers often feel like there are not enough hours in the day to meet the work demands and have a personal life. In the past year, work life balance may be further complicated by working remotely from home. Read more

Master mediators from Southern California will share their perspectives on practices that help or hinder achieving settlement and client satisfaction in mediation. Participants will learn successful and ethical negotiation techniques, as well as negotiation planning, opening offers, settlement psychology, managing client expectations, principles of persuasion and practice tips to anticipate impasse and avoid it and how to make mediation advocacy more effective. Read more

This program will address California’s most widely used form of residential purchase and sale agreement, the California Association of Realtors “Residential Purchase Agreement” (RPA-CA), and its commonly used attachments. Read more

This session will discuss various types and percentages of alcohol and how absorption can vary. We'll also discuss new DUI laws as they relate to drug impairment, both for legal and prescription drugs. Read more

The world grows increasingly adversarial, but what happens in real estate litigation when adversaries are friends? Attorneys David Fu, Rinat Erlich, and Jose Mendoza frequently oppose each other in the real estate broker litigation space, and will address the benefits and challenges when frequently in opposition, with the underlying conclusion that cases settle faster and with less expense when opponents cooperate. Read more