The California Land Title Association’s 115th Annual Convention is scheduled for April 3-5, 2022, at The Ritz-Carlton Bacara in Santa Barbara, California. We hope your organization will be a sponsor of California's premiere title industry event. ...

CLTA is pleased to release its newest CLTA Titlecast, “How to Deal with Title and Escrow Requirements Under the New Restrictive Covenant Redaction Law,” which examines the history of ...

The CLTA is pleased to welcome a new title company as Regular member of the association, as approved by the CLTA Board of Governors on November 4, 2021. Endpoint Title, Inc., which does business in ...

Although unknown to most of the public, the Legislature has launched a construction project to provide for the housing of the Legislature and the Executive Branch during the demolition of the existing Capitol Annex and construction of a new Capitol Annex. The so-called ...

Starting in 2022, all publicly held corporations headquartered in California will be required to meet a quota of “diverse” board members based on race and sexual orientation. The new law is the result of ...

The Privacy Law Section of the California Lawyers Association is launching a working group to draft recommendations regarding CPRA regulations. The Section recently invited interested Section and other CLA members to ...

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks was appointed by Assembly Speaker Rendon to fill the spot previously held by former Assemblymember David Chiu, who left the Assembly to become San Francisco City Attorney. Wicks, who represents ...

The Federal Trade Commission issued its update to the Safeguards Rule of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on October 27, 2021, intended to strengthen the data security safeguards that financial institutions are required to put in place to protect their ...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ginnie Mae announced it would permit the use of e-signatures and remote online notarizations for loan modification agreements on paper mortgages. According to the memorandum ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced the conforming loan limits (CLLs) for mortgages to be acquired by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2022. In most of the U.S., the 2022 CLL for one-unit properties will be ...

In mid-November the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) released its report on California’s anticipated Budget outlook. Unfortunately, the report received very limited coverage. The LAO anticipates that ...

The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation authored by California Congressman Raul Ruiz to take more than 2,500 acres of land in the San Jacinto Mountains into trust for the ...

Villanueva v. Fidelity National Title Company (H041870). UNPUBLISHED In Villanueva v. Fidelity National Title Company, 11 Cal.5th 104 (2021), the Supreme Court ruled that ...