This past week Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 269. The new law is the latest attempt to curb lawsuits brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act…
While not everyone at our firm may know construction law, that doesn’t mean we don’t know construction. Each April, friends, family and colleagues of Wendel Rosen…
It’s been the fodder of debate of philosophers, academics and the rest of us for ages: Do we have free will or are our actions predetermined and the result…
I was taught to always say thank you. I was also taught not to boast. So let me just say thank you JD Supra for interviewing…
We’ve written before about California’s prompt payment laws which are designed to help contractors get paid in a timely and orderly fashion, which is always nice,…
Behind the scenes a quiet war is raging. A war pitting local sovereignty, on one hand, against a Depression-era law intended to help those working on state…
I know. You’re just trying to be friendly. Don’t. Particularly when you’re a contractor bidding on a public works project. Those dinners at swanky restaurants, tickets to The…
As some of you know I’m a fan of Rube Goldberg Machines – those silly, over-engineered contraptions which make simple tasks overly-complicated. Well, here’s another by…
We’ve written before about why the date of “completion” on a California construction project is important, and why, if I may be blunt, determining that date…
We’ve been trying to keep our cool and not say anything, but we can’t contain ourselves anymore, so here it is: Earlier this month, the posts you…
My grandfather used to say that “anything worth doing, is worth doing well.” It wasn’t until later that I learned the quote wasn’t his, but a quote…
