Everything is Awesome!
Warner Bros. may have been onto something when it made The Lego Movie, about a happy-go-lucky, yet somewhat conformist, Lego construction worker named Emmet Brickowski, who reluctantly assumes the role…
California Department of Industrial Relations Hosts SB 854 Public Works Contractor Registration Seminar
As we wrote earlier, legislation signed into law this past year, SB 854, now requires that public works contractors and subcontractors register through the California Department…
Failing to Pay Prevailing Wages May Have Just Cost You More Than You Thought
Mechanics lien claims, payment bond claims, stop payment notice claims, delay claims, defect claims, abandonment claims . . . With the variety of claims unique to…
Coffee Beans, Mars and the 50 States: Civil Code 1542 Waivers and Latent Defects
A few years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Charles Duhigg wrote a book that was on the New York Times bestseller list for over 60 weeks, The Power of Habit:…
Design Professional Liens: A Blueprint
If you work in the construction industry in California you’re likely familiar with mechanics liens. But there’s one other type of lien available on construction projects…
Drones, Googleplexes and Hyperloops
I don’t know if it’s just me, or if there has been a lot of news lately about technology and construction: Although flying in the face of…
School District Gets Expensive Lesson on Prompt Payment Law. But Did the Court Get it Right?
My kids don’t like riding in my car. I urge them to look outside the window (I don’t have DVD), suggest that they roll down their…
Mixing Concrete, Like Baking a Cake, is Fraught with Problems When the Recipe is Not Followed
“Mixing concrete, like baking a cake, is fraught with problems when the recipe is not followed.” – Justice Kenneth Yegan, State Ready Mix, Inc. v. Moffatt…
Waive Not, Want Not: Waivers and Releases on California Construction Projects
California is one of a handful of states (12 to be exact) which have statutory mandated waiver and release forms for construction projects. So here’s what…
Re-Living the Bar Exam
Recently, I played a little law office hookie with a few of my colleagues, in the name of legal research (of course), to re-live the “bar…
Wendel Rosen’s Construction Practice Group Receives First Tier Ranking
We try to limit our narcissism here at Wendel Rosen but every once in a while we toot our own horn. Lawyers are, after all, a rather…
Anatomy of an Indemnity Clause
Indemnity clauses are one of the most negotiated (and litigated) provisions in a construction contract. They’re also one of the least understood. But we’re here to dissect it…
