Member Articles

Author: Daniel Gershwin Stephanie Straka Craig Spencer  In furtherance of Mayor London Breed’s “Housing For All” Executive Order issued in February (see earlier post here) and San Francisco’s daunting directive ...

On June 6, Scott Hall, Mari Clifford, Sabrina Larson, Amber Leong, and Bina Patel presented "Preparing for CPRA Enforcement and Other Privacy Law Developments." During this webinar, Scott and the team discussed practic ...

Authors: Scott Hall, Mari Clifford, Sabrina Larson, Amber Leong, and Bina Patel A Comprehensive Look at New Developments in Data Privacy Laws Download a PDF version of this report here. It has been a busy start to 202 ...

Authors: Daniel Gershwin, Megan A. Jennings, and Stephanie Straka At the June 13, 2023 Board of Supervisors hearing, the “Commercial to Residential Adaptive Reuse and Downtown Economic Revitalization” legislation wa ...

Authors: Sabrina Larson and Christopher Wiener On June 8, 2023, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products, limiting the scope of a parody defense to a trademark in ...

Authors: Daniel Gershwin Matthew S. Stone The land use entitlement process in California is notoriously complicated, lengthy, and fraught with uncertainty. Less attention is paid to the process of receiving building pe ...