Get your reservations in now! December 5, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Paradise Pier Hotel, 1717 South Disneyland Drive, Anaheim This seminar, taught by the book’s author and construction attorney Robert A. Weissman and his construction paralegal, co-author and co-seminar instructor for 17 years, Susan Shaffner, will discuss the new procedures and laws […]
Read more »Get your reservations in now! December 5, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Paradise Pier Hotel, 1717 South Disneyland Drive, Anaheim This seminar, taught by the book’s author and construction attorney Robert A. Weissman and his construction paralegal, co-author and co-seminar instructor for 17 years, Susan Shaffner, will discuss the new procedures and laws […]
Read more »December 5, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Paradise Pier Hotel, 1717 South Disneyland Drive, Anaheim This seminar, taught by the book’s author and construction attorney Robert A. Weissman and his construction paralegal, co-author and co-seminar instructor for 17 years, Susan Shaffner, will discuss the new procedures and laws that went into effect on […]
Read more »December 5, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Paradise Pier Hotel, 1717 South Disneyland Drive, Anaheim This seminar, taught by the book’s author and construction attorney Robert A. Weissman, will discuss the new procedures and laws that went into effect on July 1,2012. (The old laws often referred to as the “Mechanics’ Lien” law […]
Read more »In Eggers Industries v. Flintco, Inc., (2011) the Court found a new interpretation of who is a subcontractor and significantly altered the long standing view that a supplier to a supplier generally does not have lien rights. In Eggers, Flintco, the prime contractor for the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science at UC […]
Read more »SB 136 expands the definition of “public works” and the resulting prevailing wage requirements to certain private works related to renewable energy. Specifically, any construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under private contract that satisfies the following conditions will be subject to prevailing wage rates: (a) the work is performed in connection with […]
Read more »In P&D Consultants, Inc. v. City of Carlsbad, a December, 2010, an unpublished (can’t be cited as authority) Court of Appeal decision involving a breach of contract action pertaining to a redesign of defendant-city’s municipal golf course, The Court of Appeal reversed a trial court’s decision awarding $109,093.81 to P&D for extra work because there […]
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2010 may have marked a year with historic lows in construction but it was quite the opposite in our busy appellate Courts. As has been the case in recent years, cases dealing with the interpretation of the Contractors License Law provisions were dominant, putting new spins of prompt payment penalties and Business and Professions Code […]
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