Member Articles

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 ...

Authors: Katharine Van Dusen Robert B. Hodil In a decision partially published on November 30, 2022, Save Lafayette v. City of Lafayette[1], the First Appellate District Court of Appeal upheld the City of Lafayette’s ...

Author: Kyle Recker Additional developments relating to the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures have occurred, and the situation continues to evolve. Upon the closure of Silicon Valley Bank the FDIC initial ...

Authors: Megan A. Jennings, Stephanie Straka In an Executive Directive dated February 7, 2023, Mayor London Breed declared that “San Francisco needs to fundamentally change how we approve and build housing.” The Dir ...