Earlier, I wrote about the California Department of Industrial Relations’ (“DIR”) creation of a new administrative unit, the Compliance Monitoring Unit (“CMU”), responsible for enforcing prevailing…
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), as part of the California Public Utilities Commission’s Joint Utilities Initiative, will be hosting a free forum on how to…
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…
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…
A new unit within the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) – the Compliance Monitoring Unit (“CMU”) – will begin operations on January 1, 2012. …
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…
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…
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…
