Member Articles

Author: Caitlin Connell Voters in San Francisco and Oakland approved[1] two measures with significant implications for residential property owners: San Francisco’s Proposition M, also known as the Empty Homes Tax, and ...

Authors: Karen Frank and Sabrina Larson In December 2020, Congress passed the Trademark Modernization Act (the “TMA”), providing for numerous changes in the processes for registering trademarks and maintaining trad ...

Author: Sunny Tsou The Regional Water Quality Control Board for the San Francisco Bay Region (the “Board”) recently eliminated a credit that many transit-oriented development projects have relied on to meet stormwat ...

Author: Anthony Risucci On September 27, 2022, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill (“SB”) 1162 into law. The law alters and expands pay reporting obligations to California’s Civil Rights Department (“CRD”)1 for ...

The 2021-2022 California Legislative Session closed on August 31 and was dominated by further efforts to address the state’s continued housing crisis. The flurry of major legislation passed by the Legislature and now o ...

On April 20, 2022, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) adopted new recommended thresholds for determining the significance of individual projects’ greenhouse gas impacts under the California Environme ...