License? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ License!
I know. You’ve heard it from me, or your construction attorney, ad naseum. When in doubt get a license. We’ve paraded out the list of terribles:…
What You Need to Know About Maintaining Your Contractor’s License in California
Earlier, I wrote a post on What You Need to Know About Obtaining a Contractor’s License in California. This post focuses on what you need…
Renting Your California Contractor’s License. Probably Not Such a Good Idea
For those of you who are licensed contractors in California, or if you’re thinking about getting a contractor’s license in California, you know that you need…
What You Need to Know About Obtaining a Contractor’s License in California
To perform work on most construction projects in California you need to be licensed by the California Contractors State License Board (“CSLB”). The CSLB publishes a…
What’s In a Name? Part II
Earlier, I reported on a case decided by the California Court of Appeals for the Third District, Ball v. Steadfast-BLK, 196 Cal.App.4th 694 (2011), in which the Court…
CSLB Issues First LLC License, But Expect Delays
Over the past several months I have been providing updates about the California Contractors State License Board’s (“CSLB”) implementation of legislation enacted in 2010 which finally…
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…
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.…
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…
