Real Property Law Section

The Housing Crisis Act will strip cities and counties across California of their ability to avoid housing production because it removes the main tool used by housing opponents – unpredictability, subjectivity and delay. To deny a housing project application, cities and counties will now have to make an objective determination and make it more quickly. Read more

Covington v. Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control Dist. (2019) _ Cal.App.5th _ , 2019 WL 7169140: In a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) challenge to the approval of a geothermal power plant to be located on federal land in Mono County, the Court of Appeal ruled that the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District (District) was the proper lead agency to undertake preparation of an environmental impact report, and the permit limiting the daily Reactive Organic Gas (ROG) emissions was sufficient evidence of the amount of the emissions. Read more

Our firm, as well as the entire community of California real property lawyers, has lost a great friend and colleague. Marvin Starr was arguably the most well-known real estate tax lawyer of his day. Read more

We are so excited for the 39th Annual Real Property Law Section’s Spring Conference and Cannabis Law Symposium! We are so grateful to have each and every one of you attend this event and we are excited for all of the things that the Real Property Law Section has planned for you. Read more

Defines what an expert does.  Distinguishes between consultants and experts.  Creates a checklist for choosing the right expert. Tips for working with an expert. Questions to ask a hired expert.  Relating the deposition to trial testimony.Opposing experts. Matters upon which the expert may opine. Read more

Please join California Lawyers Association for a special Real Property Law Mixer and New Year’s Meet-and-Greet networking event for the Real Property, Business, Tax, and Environmental Law Sections. Read more

December 2019 By Monty McIntyre California Case Summaries™ (https://californiacasesummaries.mykajabi.com) Monty A. McIntyre, Esq. is the publisher of California Case Summaries™. Monty hasbeen a California civil trial lawyer since 1980, a member of ABOTA since 1995, and currently works as a full-time mediator, arbitrator and referee with ADR Services, Inc. (ADR) in ADR’s offices in San Diego, Irvine, and Los Angeles. California Case Summaries™provides short summaries, organized by legal topic, of every new published civil and family law case so California… Read more

By John (J.R.) Richards Well it’s the end of an era.  I knew Professor Bernhardt pretty well.  I was his student in a half dozen classes, and his teaching assistant in law school.  We stayed in contact after school.  We would organize yearly CLE’s for him to teach at both the Alameda County Bar Association and the Contra Costa County Bar Association.  His lovely wife Christine Tour-Sarkissian was also my professor.  I should say we were and are friends.  My… Read more

By Michael S. Klein The Real Property section is deeply saddened by the passing on October 13, 2019 of our great friend and recent past Section Chair Eric Remensperger (1957-2019). We will all miss Eric. His calm leadership during his term (2016-17) was instrumental during the difficult transition from operation under the auspices of the State Bar of California to the new California Lawyer’s Association. Born in Palo Alto, California, on April 11, 1957 to Nina and Bud Remensperger, Eric… Read more

** Note: This program is canceled ** San Francisco | April 23 - 25, 2020 Westin St. Francis San Francisco Hotel335 Powell StreetSan Francisco, CA 94102 Schedule | Hotel | Sponsors | Brochure | Reg Form and Course Selector Earn up to 14.25 Hours of MCLE Credit. Includes Legal Ethics, Competence Issues and Recognition and Elimination of Bias. Interested in sponsoring the 2020 Spring Conference or the Cannabis Law Symposium? Learn more about the sponsorship levels today or download the this form. Become… Read more