Real Property Law Section

Membership in CLA is now available to: Members of the State BarOut of State AttorneysLaw StudentsNon-attorneys Why Join The Real Property Law Section: Meeting passionate real property professionalsReceive copies of our renowned Real Property Law Journal Publishes 3-4 issues Receive this e-bulletinGreat classes and webinars available around the stateCommunity service eventsNetworking eventsAccess to other sectionsRPLS will initiate and advocate legislation and regulationsDiscounts on professional services and productsPublic speaking and writing opportunities to reach up to 65,000 members Enrollment Forms California… Read more

Would you like to be interviewed for our next E-bulletin and have attended an RPLS Event? Shoot me an e-mail. Let’s document your experience! Read more

So I’m here with Charles Guarria the author of Proposition 13 - America's Second Great Tax Revolt: A Forty Year Struggle for Library Survival which has been recently released by Emerald Publishing Limited. The book is rich with the history of the law and is filled with anecdotes. It takes a close look at those who advocated both for and against the proposition, the processes behind government financing, taxing, spending, and organizing a grassroots campaign. You can find it here on Amazon. Read more

The CLA Real Property Law Section’s Annual Spring Conference (formerly the Real Property Law Section Retreat) is the leading educational conference for California real estate lawyers. The 2019 Spring Conference will be held in Newport Beach this year and will include 44 legal education seminars featuring outstanding CLE programming on a variety of real estate topics, as well as ethics, elimination of bias, and competence. Read more

The Real Property Law Section [“RPLS”], with approximately 6,500 members, is one of the largest sections of the California Lawyers Association. RPLS coordinates educational programs, social events and materials (including through our monthly E-Bulletin and Quarterly Journal) for California’s diverse real estate attorneys, and serves as a forum for communicating information to its members on current developments and trends in real property law. RPLS also provides opportunities to network and develop relationships with lawyers and other professionals in the real estate industry. The RPLS enthusiastically embraces and encourages diversity and inclusion in Section Membership. Read more

This program is free and offers no MCLE credit. You must register in advance to participate. Discussion of laws, upcoming events, and getting input from RPLS members. Moderator: Neil Kalin Speaker: John Richards Read more

Although enacted just over one year ago, the impact of California Senate Bill 2 – commonly referred to as the Building Homes and Jobs Act (“SB 2” or the “Act”), has not yet been felt by lenders and loan servicers. But, as the revenue from the Act comes pouring in at a higher than expected rate, lenders and servicers will start to see more affordable housing construction throughout California, which in turn will mean more loans on affordable housing units to originate and service. Read more

It’s hard to be a trial lawyer when you’re hung over all the time. Or wondering how soon you can get finished with that discovery/pleading/deposition/trial day so you can get something — or rather a whole lot of something — to drink. But that’s precisely the life I endured and finally escaped on my birthday: February 27, 2001. Not my belly-button birthday, of course. My sobriety birthday. The first day of a life filled with miracles since I learned how to stop drinking, one day at a time. Read more

In Volume 3/4 for Fall 2017 of the Real Property Journal, I wrote an article on the Doctrine of Implied Dedication to a Public Use for Roadways Recreational Use in California as enunciated in the California Supreme Court decision of Scher v. Burke, , 3 Cal. 5th 136 (2017) modified, reh’g denied. In Scher the California Supreme Court concluded that the higher standard established by Civil Code § 1009 adopted by the California legislature in 1972 for establishing an implied dedication by public use applied to dedications to roadways as well as recreational properties. Read more

Great topics like complex mixed use infill development projects. This panel will focus primarily on the Truckee Railyard Project, which is transforming an industrial railroad site into a blossoming downtown area with new businesses and affordable housing units. Another panel discussed Opportunity Zone investing, a community investment tool recently created under the Investing in Opportunity Act (as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed in late 2017) to stimulate long-term private investment, job creation and economic development in certain designated low-income communities. Read more