Publications / Course Materials
Commercial Real Estate Legal Updates
“2024 Legislative Changes Affecting California Commercial Real Property” Williams & Associates Tenth Annual Newsletter, March 2024
“Part II: 2023 Legislative Changes Affecting California Commercial Real Property,” Williams & Associates Ninth Annual Newsletter, December 2023
“2023 Legislative Changes Affecting California Commercial Real Property,” Williams & Associates Ninth Annual Newsletter, March 2023
“2022 Legislative Changes Affecting California Commercial Real Property,” Williams & Associates Eighth Annual Newsletter, March 2022
“2021 Legislative Changes Affecting California Commercial Real Property,” Williams & Associates Seventh Annual Newsletter, March 2021
“2020 Legislative Changes Affecting California Commercial Real Property,” Attorney at Law Magazine (Los Angeles Edition) (Volume 6, No. 1, 2020)
“2019 California Laws Affecting Commercial Real Property,” Attorney at Law Magazine (Los Angeles Edition) (Vol. 5, No. 2, 2019)
“2018 California Laws Affecting Commercial Real Property,” Attorney At Law Magazine (Los Angeles Edition) (Vol. 4, No. 1, 2018)
“2017 California Laws Affecting California Commercial Real Property,” Attorney At Law Magazine (Los Angeles Edition) (Vol. 3, No. 2, 2017)
“2016 California Laws Affecting Commercial Real Property,” Attorney At Law Magazine (Los Angeles Edition) (Vol. 2, No. 2, 2016)
“Legislative Developments Affecting Commercial Real Property in 2015,” Attorney At Law Magazine (Los Angeles Edition) (Premiere 2015)
Commercial Real Estate Leasing
“Mechanics Liens, Landlords & Leases,” Attorney At Law Magazine (Los Angeles Edition) (Vol. 2 No. 1, 2016)
Speaker, Annual Meeting of Bailes and Associates, “Tenants and Their Landlords’ Lenders,” April 26, 2017
“Guaranties of Leases.” Attorney At Law Magazine (Los Angeles Edition) (Vol. 1, No. 4, 2015)
Commercial Real Estate Purchase and Sale Transactions
“Real Property Changes in Ownership,” Attorney At Law Magazine (Los Angeles Edition), (Vol. 1, No. 2, 2015)
Panel Outline, Panelist and Moderator, “Commercial Real Estate Transactions: A Primer for Practitioners on Documentation, Diligence and Closing,” National Bar Association 2015 Annual Convention, July, 2015
Commercial Real Estate Financing Transactions
“Sales of Real Property and Other Transfers Outside of Ordinary Course of Business under the Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act,” (co-authored with Professor R. Wilson Freyermuth, University of Missouri School of Law), ACREL News and Notes, November, 2020
Panel Outline, “Loan Defaults and Two Not So Tough Acts to Follow,” American College of Mortgage Attorneys, 2020 Annual Meeting, September 11, 2020 (co-authored with co-panelists Ed Foster and Hilary Gevondyan)
“Priority Of Liens On California Real Property, Part 2: Subordination Agreements,” Points of Interest Magazine (California Mortgage Association, Spring, 2019)
“Priority Of Liens On California Real Property, Part 1: General Rules of Priority, Deeds of Trust,” Points of Interest Magazine (California Mortgage Association, Fall,2018)
“Will the Banks Be Back Big? Recent Federal Law Limits High Volatility Commercial Real Estate Regulations.” Points of Interest Magazine (California Mortgage Association, Summer, 2018)
“Regulation of High Volatility Commercial Real Estate Loans,” Commercial Insight Newsletter (First American Title Insurance Company, Fall 2016)
“Mechanics Liens, Landlords and Leases,” Attorney At Law Magazine (Los Angeles Edition) (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2016)
“Lenders’ Rights in Real Estate Leases and Rents,” Attorney At Law Magazine (Los Angeles Edition) (Vol. 1, No. 3, 2015)
Panelist and Co-Moderator, “The Public And The Crowd: Financing Transactions With Capital From Multiple Sources,” American College Of Mortgage Attorneys 2015 Annual Meeting, October, 2015
“Using the HUD108 Loan Guarantee Program for Economic Development,” California Economic Development Journal 5 (Volume I, Issue 1, Summer 2014)
“Beyond the Bank: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program,” 34th Annual Training Conference of the California Association for Local Economic Development, April, 2014
Moderator and Panelist, “Financing Your Public-Private Deal – 2013 and Beyond,” Real Estate Finance Subsection, Real Property Section, Los Angeles County Bar Association, May 2013
“Procedural Aspects of Receiverships,” California Receivers Forum Loyola IV Symposium, January, 2011
“Commercial Real Property Receiverships,” California Receivers Forum, Los Angeles- Orange County Chapter, June, 2010
“Loan Remedies and Restructuring” – panel in series entitled “Navigating and Sometimes Unwinding Real Estate Transactions In Challenging Economic Times” presented jointly by the Real Property Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, November, 2009
City of Los Angeles Industrial Development Authority, “Rights And Remedies In The Defaulted Bond Transaction From The Borrower’s Perspective (Emphasizing Right Under Letters Of Credit And Under Guarantys),” September 10, 2009
Los Angeles County Bar Association Real Property Section, Finance Subsection, “Fundamentals of Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Real Estate Loan Documentation,” June, 2008
Practicing Law Institute, “Commercial Real Estate Financing 2008: What Borrowers and Lenders Need to Know Now,” San Francisco and New York, February, 2008
Practicing Law Institute, “Commercial Real Estate Financing 2007: What Borrowers and Lenders Need to Know Now,” January, 2007
American College of Mortgage Attorneys Annual Meeting, “Legislative Potpourri,” October, 2006
American College of Mortgage Attorneys Annual Meeting, “Legislative Potpourri,” October, 2005
Joint Fall CLE Meeting of ABA Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section and Tax Law Section “Current Developments In Assignment of Rents and Other Issues of Interest Only To Those Who Value Money,” September, 2005
“Reader Alert: “Uniform Assignment of Rents Act,” The Abstract (American College of Mortgage Attorneys), April 2005
Los Angeles County Bar Association Real Property Section, Real Estate Finance Subsection – “The Issuance of UCC Opinions In Connection with the Origination of Loans Secured Primarily By Real Estate”, May, 2004
State Bar of California Real Property Section Retreat, “Loan Workouts,” April, 2002
Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, in-house MCLE Presentation, “Fundamentals of Real Estate Finance,” November, 2001
“Assignments of Rents-The Next Generation,” 15 Real Property Journal 27 (Winter, 1997)
“Mixed Collateral Foreclosures-New Turns on a Twisted Path,” 1996 Real Property Law Reporter 113 (California Continuing Education of the Bar, 1996)
General
Proposition 15-Ballot Initiative,” presentation in AME Church Lay Organization “Your Vote Matters” series, September 4, 2020
“Real Estate Law Affecting Current Real Estate Transactions,” Orange County Commercial Realtors Association, June, 2020
Author of Commercial Leasing, Commercial Purchase and Sale and Real Property Liens update summaries for major international legal information provider, 2016-2017
“Real Property Changes in Ownership,” Attorney At Law Magazine (Los Angeles Edition), Vol. 1, No. 2, 2015
The Benjamin S. Crocker Symposium on Real Estate Law & Business 2008, “The Patriot Act and Its Offspring – Ethical Issues For Real Estate Attorneys and The Real Estate Industry,” April, 2008
“Recent Developments In Anti-Money Laundering And Anti-Terrorism Financing And The Effort To Regulate Persons Involved In Real Estate Closings And Settlements,”Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal 593, Fall, 2007
Panel Moderator, “Federal Tax Incentives for Development,” USC Gould School of Law Institute/Los Angeles County Bar Association 2007
Benjamin S. Crocker Symposium on Real Estate Law & Business, April 19, 2007
Urban Land Institute, Urban Marketplace, “Development of an Office Building Under $10,000,000 Under the HUD 108 Loan Program,” March, 2003
Commercial Real Estate Women (Orange County Chapter), “Pension Fund Involvement in Real Estate,” September, 2001
Presentation to in-house attorneys at California Federal Bank, “Revised Article 9 for Real Estate and Personal Property Lenders,” May, 2001
Legislation
(legislation in which Norma Williams was a lead author or key participant)
California Statutes of 1989, Chapter 698 (legislation abrogating rule of Taylor v. Bouissiere, 195 Cal. App. 3d 1197 (1987) re leasehold financing), amending 15 sections of the California Civil Code and Code of Civil Procedure
Chair of Secured Transactions Law Reform Committee of State Bar Real Property Law Section and thereby lead author for California Statutes of 1996, Chapter 49 containing comprehensive revision of California law on assignment of rents, enacted as Civil Code Section 2938, effective January 1, 1997
Observer, Assignment of Rents Drafting Committee, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (2003-Present) - Observer to Drafting Committee that has drafted a national uniform law on assignment of rents modeled on the California statute described above. Enacted in Nevada (2007); Utah (2008), New Mexico (2011), Texas (2011), North Dakota (2013); pending in Massachusetts, 2016