Who Says Actions Speak Louder Than Words?

Contractors who work in the public works arena are aware that under California Civil Code section 3247 [which will be recodified at Civil Code section 9550…

2012 California Construction Law Update – Part 3

Part 3 (and final) of my 2012 California Construction Law Update discusses legislation enacted in 2010 but which goes into effect on July 1, 2012, which…

2012 California Construction Law Update – Part 2

Part 2 of my 2012 California Construction Law Update discusses several new laws which are intended to provide relief to the state’s hard hit construction industry, provide…

New Unit Within DIR, the Compliance Monitoring Unit, Established to Monitor and Enforce Prevailing Wage Requirements

A new unit within the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) – the Compliance Monitoring Unit (“CMU”) – will begin operations on January 1, 2012. …

2012 California Construction Law Update – Part 1

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…

Arbitration Provision in Construction Contract Not Void Simply Because Contractor Was Unlicensed at the Time it Entered into Contract

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…

Recording of Lis Pendens Does Not Constitute Slander of Title Even Where Lis Pendens is Expunged

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…

CSLB Warns of Scam Targeting Contractors and Other Businesses

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”:

Open During Construction . . .

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…

Failure to Request Extension of Project Schedule No Defense to Liquidated Damages . . . Even for Delays Not Caused by the Contractor

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…

October 2011 Update to CEB’s Office Leasing: Drafting and Negotiating the Lease Available in November

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…

CSLB Says it Will Be Ready to Process LLC Licenses by January 1st Deadline

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.…