Marvin Starr founded Miller Starr Regalia with his partners Harry Miller and Edmund Regalia in 1964. For almost 50 years, Mr. Starr's 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.
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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.
