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.…
Objective, Not Subjective Standard, Determines Good Faith Disputes Under Prompt Payment Statutes
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…
Scope of Work, Not Contract, Governs License Requirements
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?
“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…
Associated General Contractors of California Public Works Night
The Associated General Contractors of California will be hosting a Public Works Night on Wednesday, September 28th at the Four Points by Sheraton in Pleasanton, California.…
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