A new unit within the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) – the Compliance Monitoring Unit (“CMU”) – will begin operations on January 1, 2012. …
Are we at the end of 2011 already? With the end of the year quickly approaching and the start of a new year just around the…
With state and federal courts increasingly backlogged with cases, contracting parties are more frequently including alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) provisions in their contracts as a way…
A colleague of mine has a jackalope mounted on the wall of his office. A jackalope, if you haven’t seen one before, is a combination of…
The California Contractors State License Board issued an industry bulletin today warning of fraudulent notices being sent to California contractors from the “California Labor Compliance Bureau”:
I was trying to come up with a construction-related theme for this post, and this was the best I could come up. Photos of Occupy Oakland’s…
If you have ever worked on a public works project you have probably run across a liquidated damage clause in your contract. Such clauses, which are…
The Continuing Education of the Bar California has published its October 2011 Update to Office Leasing: Drafting and Negotiating the Lease. A number of attorneys from…
This past year I wrote an article about the enactment of legislation which finally permitted contractors to be licensed as limited liability companies (“LLCs”) in California.…
California has several nearly identical statutes scattered across multiple code sections that require public and private owners to promptly pay progress and retention payments to their…
Attorneys spend a lot of time parsing words, both to ensure that the words that they use convey what they mean, and to determine what others…
“What’s in a name?” This was the question posed in a recent case decided by the California Court of Appeals involving a contractor doing business under the fictitious…
