Starr Regalia, Remkes back door bosses - yep: Barbed Wire On Jurisdiction he “Not” Judges State Bar Court Judge Joann Remke has been named the new presiding judge of the State Bar Court by the California Supreme Court. The high court, which made the appointment last month, also announced that State Bar Court Hearing Judge State Bar Court Hearing Judge Patrice McElroy was reappointed. Remke Remke, 41, appointed for a six-year term, replaces Presiding Judge Ronald Stovitz, who is retiring effective Nov. 1. McElroy, 53, was named to a new six-year term starting Nov. 1. She was first appointed as a judge of the State Bar Hearing Department in November 2001. The Senate Rules Committee appointed Remke to the State Bar Court as a hearing judge in 2000 and reappointed her in 2004. She was supervising judge of the State Bar Court Hearing Department in 2004 and 2005. A graduate of the University of Illinois and McGeorge School of Law, Remke was an associate at Miller, Starr & Regalia in Oakland, a bankruptcy specialist for Providian Bancorps, a VISTA attorney in Montana, coordinator of the Fair Housing Program in Minnesota and counsel to the California Senate Judiciary Committee before joining the State Bar Court. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Hastings College of the Law, McElroy was a staff attorney for the National Center for Youth Law, a San Francisco public defender, and a solo practitioner specializing in juvenile delinquency and juvenile dependency before joining the State Bar Court in 2001. The State Bar Court is the only disciplinary court in the nation that uses professional (sic) judges (sic) and often is held up as the most effective state bar court as well. Miller, Starr, Regalina, LLP Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. “The Book” is the most widely used and judicially recognized real estate treatise in California and is cited by practicing attorneys and courts throughout the state. We have forty attorneys in our Walnut Creek, San Francisco and Newport Beach offices, all of whom concentrate on real property matters, making us one of the largest real estate law practices in California. Our firm has expertise in all real property related legal matters including transactions, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, construction, management, title, …and land use, in addition to full-service litigation and dispute resolution services. The firm’s depth and breadth of experience enable Miller Starr Regalia to represent numerous Fortune 500 companies, developers of retail, office, multifamily and industrial projects, homebuilders, lenders, media companies, educational institutions, government agencies, privately held companies and real estate investors. Marvin B. Starr Marvin Starr founded Miller Starr Regalia with his partners Harry Miller and Edmund Regalia in 1964. For almost 50 years, Mr. Starrs practice has involved a broad spectrum of real property matters, including real property secured transactions and contracts. Mr. Starr is also a nationally recognized authority on tax-deferred exchanges. Mr. Starr has been called upon extensively as both a consultant and an expert witness by law firms throughout California. His expertise has also qualified him to serve as an expert appointed by the San Francisco County Superior Court, as well as the judge pro tem in a complex water rights case before the San Luis Obispo County Superior Court. He has practiced law continuously since his admission to the Bar in January 1959, and is one of only 1,880 lawyers throughout the United States to be included in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America since it was first printed in 1983. From 1968 through 1984, Mr. Starr was also a member of the faculty of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He spent another five years teaching an advanced course in real property secured transactions at the John F. Kennedy University School of Law. EDUCATION Mr. Starr received a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law in 1958 and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1955. ASSOCIATIONS Mr. Starr has often appeared as a speaker and lecturer before professional groups, civic meetings, conferences and conventions throughout the United States. He has shared his knowledge of real estate law before the American Bar Association, the California, Colorado, Nevada and Utah Bar Associations, the Commonwealth Club, the Family, and the National and California Associations of Realtors. Mr. Starr was twice selected as the featured speaker of the annual conference of the Real Estate Section of the California State Bar Association and, in 1986, was the keynote speaker at the Twenty Fifth Annual Benjamin S. Crocker Symposium, sponsored by the Real Estate Section of the Los Angeles Bar Association. Other major conferences where Mr. Starr has been a keynote or featured speaker include: conferences sponsored by the University of California, Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, the Building Association Institute, the International Council of Shopping Centers, the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, the Institute For Real Estate Management, and the National Apartment Association. He has also been featured on various television, radio programs, and personal interest articles in The San Francisco Real Estate Journal, Sacramento Magazine, The San Francisco Reader, The Contra Costa Times, The Los Angeles Times and The 680 Business Journal. Along with Harry D. Miller, Mr. Starr is one of the original co-authors of the Current Law of California Real Estate. It was first published as a three-volume work by Bancroft Whitney Company in 1965-1967, expanding to five volumes in 1975-1977. The treatise was revised by Mr. Miller and republished by Bancroft Whitney as California Real Estate 2d, a nine-volume work completed in 1990. Over the past thirty years, the treatise has been widely cited and quoted by the California Supreme and Appellate Courts. It is often cited in court opinions as a recognized authority on California real estate law. In addition to his co-authorship of the California Real Estate series, Mr. Starr founded The Real Estate Tax Digest in 1980. The monthly publication was acquired by Matthew Bender Company in 1983, but Mr. Starr served as its editor and principal author through 1988. A) On Contracts “It is essential to the existence of a contract that there be: 1. Parties capable of contracting; 2. Their consent; 3. A lawful object; and 4. A sufficient cause or consideration.” B) On Real Estate; C) MSL Price Fixing; D) On Loan Price Fixing; and E) Oh, Starr-Bar “Forgot” A Lot! “All persons are capable of contracting, except minors, persons of unsound mind, and persons deprived of civil rights.” 1) No Federal State or State-State public agent shall … make any … Law impairing the Obligation of Contract elements, including our Constitution contract…. 2) No State shall … make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a legal Tender …. 3) A … human being is not an all capitalized name “good”, article of commerce. “Mutual consent is an essential contract element.” “The consent of the parties to a contract must be: 1. Free; 2. Mutual; and 3. Communicated by each to the other.” “Consent is not mutual, unless the parties all agree upon the same thing in the same sense.” 4) “When the words of a founding statute are unambiguous, then . . . `judicial inquiry is complete. Edmund Regalia In 1964, Edmund Regalia founded Miller Starr Regalia with his partners Harry Miller and Marvin Starr. He has concentrated on civil litigation for most of his 50-year legal career. As the senior litigation principal, Mr. Regalia engaged exclusively in litigation of real estate and business disputes, successfully representing clients including First American Title Insurance Company, Chicago Title Insurance Company, East Bay Municipal Utility District, County of Contra Costa, American Savings Bank, Hewlett-Packard and AKT Investments, Inc. ASSOCIATIONS In addition to helping found and lead the firm, Mr. Regalia’s work on appellate cases has resulted in numerous published decisions. He also has testified as an expert witness in a variety of real estate matters. His widespread legal expertise was formally recognized in 2002, when Governor Davis appointed him as a Commissioner of the California Law Revision Commission—the agency charged with advising the Governor and Legislature on recommended revisions to state law. EDUCATION Mr. Regalia received a LL.B. degree in 1958 (which was later updated to J.D.) from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He earned Order of the Coif recognition and served as an Associate Editor for the California Law Review. Mr. Regalia received a B.A. degree in 1952 from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. From 1952 to 1955, he served in the United States Navy, attaining the rank of Lieutenant. He also practiced with firms in San Francisco and Oakland before founding Miller Starr Regalia. PUBLICATIONS/ARTICLES/NEWS In 2000, Mr. Regalia became editor-in-chief of the definitive California real estate practice guide, the 12-volume Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Law. “The Book” and the bi-monthly newsletter that accompanies it are published by Thomson-West. In addition, Mr. Regalia has authored articles for the U.C.L.A. Law Review, California Trial Lawyers Journal, New York Law Journal, Practicing Law Institute (PLI), and Los Angeles Lawyer. Harry Daniel Miller MILLER, Harry Daniel -- 4/17/31 - 1/4/02. Died January 4, 2002. A longtime resident of Orinda and Lafayette, Harry was born and raised in Oakland, graduating from Oakland Technical High School. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a B.A. with honors in 1952, he was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He then returned to Berkeley to attend Boalt Law School, graduating in 1957. The following year he was granted a Ford Fellowship to the University of Stockholm, Sweden, for graduate legal studies. Upon his return to the States, he settled in Oakland, ultimately founding the law firm of Miller, Stan & Regalia. As lead author of the treatises, Miller & Starr, Current Law of California Real Estate and Miller & Starr, California Real Estate, 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions, he was legal counsel for many real estate organizations, including the California Association of Realtors and was and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco Law School. He was author of the bi-monthly Miller & Starr Real Property NewsAlert from its commencement in 1991. Harry first wife of 47 years, Jean Gustafson Miller, died before Harry. Harry is survived by: A) his wife, Jina Tanimine Miller; B) his daughter and son-in-law, Kjerstin and Patrick Taylorof Orinda; C) his sons and daughters-in-law, Daniel and Sara Miller of Lafayette and Carl and Patti Miller of Orinda; and D) his eleven grandchildren: Philip, Robert and Kendal Taylor, Jake, Corey, Wesley and Anna Miller, and Blake, Scott, Grant and Luke Miller. He was a member of the Orinda Country Club and a founder of the former Lakeview Club in Oakland. He was a former member of the Board of Trustees of Alta Bates Hospital, Board of Directors of Associated Homebuilders of the Greater East Bay, the National Ski Patrol and numerous legal associations. Harry was an avid traveler, visiting 103 countries during his lifetime. In recent years he was the producer and host of the video series Millers Travels …. A memorial to celebrate Harrys life with his family and friends will take place on January 20, 2002, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., at Postino in Lafayette. Donations may be made to the Harry D. Miller Foundation, a foundation dedicated to assisting those in need obtain educational opportunities, c/o Leonard R. Pirkle, Executive Director, 261 Hartz Ave., Danville, CA 94526. Eugene H. Miller Gene’s practice includes the representation of clients in all aspects of real property transactions including purchase and sale documentation and representation before public agencies. In addition, he has extensive experience in entity formation, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Gene’s background as a Certified Public Accountant provides additional expertise and assistance in entity formation and in structuring transactions. California Civil Code § 1550. California Civil Code § 1556. Article 1:10! Article I, section 10, clause 1. 15 USC, §17. California Civil Code § 1550. California Civil Code § 1565. California Civil Code § 1580. Conn. Natl Bank v. Germain, 503 U.S. 249, 253-54 (1992) (quoting Rubin v. United States, 449 U.S. 424, 430 (1981)). youtube/watch?v=__7rowA-W9Q
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