Commercial mortgage-backed securities ("CMBS") loans and balance-sheet loans are not created equal. While there are many similarities between the two types of loans, the differences are material

The Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2018, a bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last month, would force title insurance companies to report the identities of people using LLCs...

Facing pressure to meet federal clean air standards, California's South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) voted 7-6 to direct staff to write new rules ...

A decrease in the corporate tax rate made the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) less valuable, and analysts estimated that the loss in value would lead to the loss of hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units that otherwise would have been built.

Aimco also claimed it incurred costs to increase security, make repairs and deal with upset neighbors after Airbnb guests sometimes threw raucous parties.

Proposition 13, which was approved in California 40 years ago, could potentially be up for debate in 2018.

Proposition 13, which was approved in California 40 years ago, could potentially be up for debate in 2018.

The tax proposal initially released by the House Ways and Means Committee could look very different from what Congress actually approves.

San Jose is the largest city in California's Silicon Valley, yet some of the tech industry's largest employers maintain their biggest offices elsewhere.

On May 10, 2017, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved an ordinance that would permit previously unapproved dwelling units that had been created without a city permit.

In Open Spirit, LLC v. United States, No. 15-370C (Fed. Cl. filed April 28, 2017), the U.S. Court of Federal Claims upheld the cancellation of a bid process for a lease of federal property shortly before...

Arizona recently enacted a new law that gives businesses and property owners a 90-day grace period to fix alleged disability-access violations without paying penalties.

On the internet, a person can purchase an embossed certificate, a service animal identification card, a vest as well as a medallion purporting to give legal status to a service animal, even though such documentation is not required by law.

The California Court of Appeal invalidated a San Francisco ordinance that required landlords of residential properties to provide a monetary "relocation benefit" to displaced tenants any time the landlord exits the rental market pursuant to the Ellis Act.

In a statement published less than two weeks before Los Angeles' Consolidated Municipal and Special Elections to be held on March 7, 2017, California Gov.