Katie Jones is a shareholder in Miller Starr Regalia’s Walnut Creek office. She represents developers, property owners, retailers, office and industrial users in a variety of real estate transactions, with an emphasis on commercial leasing. Katie also has extensive experience representing clients in acquisitions and dispositions of office, industrial and retail properties. She also facilitates transactions by assisting clients with obtaining required third-party and anchor approvals, and negotiating and drafting ancillary agreements such as easements, CC&Rs, construction agreements, license agreements, confidentiality agreements, escrow holdback agreements, and subordination agreements.
Before Katie’s practice focused on transactional matters, she was a litigation attorney who obtained judgments and arbitration awards for her clients in a broad range of real estate disputes.
J.D., University of California Davis School of Law (2007)
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Business Economics (2002)
Contra Costa County Bar Association, Real Estate Section
International Council of Shopping Centers
Leadership Contra Costa Alumni
Urban Land Institute
Chapter 34, “Landlord and Tenant,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 4th, By Karl E. Geier and Xavier L. Gutierrez (update author) (2016-2026)
“The Future Of Dual Agency In California Real Estate,” Law360, September 16, 2016
“Commercial Real Estate Brokers Now Subject to the Same Dual Agency and Disclosure Laws as Residential Brokers,” Miller Starr Regalia Legal Update, December 15, 2014
Chapter 4, “Premises,” Retail Leasing: Drafting and Negotiating the Lease, California CEB, (update author) (2014-2026)
“Section 8 Housing: Safety Net or Tangled Web? An Overview of Section 8 Tenancy Termination and Related Due Process Issues,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, Vol. 23, No. 2, November 2012
“Northern California: Career Conversations (Virtual Program),” International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), October 14, 2021
“Leasing 360: Connecting the Dots in Retail Dealmaking,” International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Western, September 29, 2025
Please join us at the Urban Land Institute (ULI) SF’s East Bay Programs Committee Member Happy Hour, hosted by Miller Starr Regalia at Sante Adairius Oakland Arbor in Downtown Oakland on Wednesday, May 31, 2023!
Miller Starr Regalia Shareholder Katie Jones to speak at the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Northern California: Career Conversations (virtual) program at 12:00 noon on Thursday, October 14, 2021.
For years, one might have responded with the follow up question: “Is the failure to provide proof of renter’s insurance a material or trivial breach of the lease?”
MSR has promoted attorneys Katie Jones, Giselle Roohparvar and Brian Shaffer to shareholder.