Rebuilding After the 2025 Southern California Fires
The 2025 Southern California wildfires – the Palisades Fire (January 7, 2025), Eaton Fire (January 7, 2025), Hughes Fire (January 22, 2025) and Border 2 Fire…
2025 Construction Law Update
It’s that time of year again. The second half of the 2023-2024 legislative session saw the introduction of 2,124 bills, of which, 1418 were signed into…
Avoiding Wage Claims in California Construction
For both private works projects and state and local public works projects in California, higher-tiered contractors can find themselves opening up their wallets if…
The Privette Doctrine and Its Exceptions: Court of Appeal Grapples With the Easy and Not So Easy
In CBRE v. Superior Court, 102 Cal.App.5th 639 (2024), the 4th District Court of Appeal grappled with a thorny and not-so-thorny issue involving injured parties…
Court Retained Jurisdiction to Enforce Settlement Under Code of Civil Procedure Section 664.6 Despite Dismissal of Complaint
Attorneys will commonly add a Code of Civil Procedure section 664.6 provision in their settlement agreements to ensure that courts have continuing jurisdiction to enforce the…
2024 Update to CEB’s Mechanics Liens Now Available
For a number of years we have had the honor to serve as update authors for several publications of California’s Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB).…
General Contractor Gets Fired [Upon] for Subcontractor’s Failure to Hire Apprentices
As most public works contractors know, Labor Code section 1777.5 requires the hiring of apprentices on public works projects and, under Labor Code section 1777.7, violations…
Word of the Day: “Contractor”
What’s in a word? When it comes to insurance policies, a word, can potentially mean millions of dollars. In California Specialty Insulation, Inc. v. Allied World…
Viva La France! 2024 Summer Olympics Construction Features Sustainable Design, Including, Simply Not Building at All
If you’re like me and many others you’ve probably been watching the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. We were in Paris last year and we…
Employees in Construction Industry Entitled to Compensation for Time Spent Complying with Employer-Mandated Security Protocols
Wage and hour laws dictating how employers must compensate their employees for time worked can, given the innumerable ways that employees perform their jobs, raise a…
Staffing Company Not Entitled to Make a Claim Against a Payment Bond and Attorneys’ Fees on State Public Works Payment Bonds
It’s not quite Baskin Robbin’s “31 Flavors” but the panoply of statutory construction payment remedies available to contractors, subcontractor and material suppliers in California, from mechanics…
DIR Public Works Registration System Down, Public Works Contractors Not to be Penalized
In a bit of a major freak-out this past Friday, June 28, 2024, public works contractors with Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) registrations expiring on June…
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