2/28/2023 5:11:00 AM San Francisco’s Downtown: What Does the Future Hold? By Farella Braun and Martel Farella's CJ Higley with guest speakers, Marc Babsin with Emerald Fund, Jim Hakes with Handel Architects, Sujata Srivastava with SPUR,...
9/1/2020 11:27:00 PM Construction Dispute Resolution By Richard Van Duzer Farella's Real Estate Webinar Series features Adam Dawson and Rick Van Duzer discussing "Construction Dispute Resolution." Construction...
4/1/2020 7:05:03 PM San Francisco Bay Area Counties Issue Stricter Limits on Commercial Activities in Updated COVID-19 Shelter-In-Place Orders By Anthony Schoenberg To combat the growing number of coronavirus cases in the Bay Area, six local counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San...
1/14/2019 9:07:47 PM Alert: Construction Managers on Private Projects Need Not Be Licensed in California By Farella Braun and Martel A case of first impression decided by the Second District Court of Appeal on March 27, 2009, resolves the long-running debate over...
1/14/2019 9:05:24 PM EPA's New Lead-Based Paint Renovation, Repair and Painting Requirements Take Effect By Farella Braun and Martel The US Environmental Protection Agency's Lead-Based Paint Renovation, Repair and Painting Program (RRP), originally published in the...
1/14/2019 9:02:13 PM Creative Use of Receiverships to Solve Environmental, Construction and Other Problems in Distressed Projects By Gary Kaplan Appointment of a receiver is a flexible remedy for solving serious business problems in distressed projects while reducing delay and...
1/14/2019 9:02:09 PM Lien Away as It’s an Absolutely Protected Right in California By Farella Braun and Martel The California Court of Appeal recently held that the recording of a lis pendens in connection with a mechanic’s lien foreclosure action...
1/14/2019 9:02:08 PM Changing Legal Landscape for Public Project Delivery By Farella Braun and Martel Published in California Constructor Few areas in the construction industry have received as much attention during the last five years,...
1/14/2019 9:02:07 PM Variations in an Entity’s Name Will Not Bar a Contractor’s Suit By Farella Braun and Martel The California Court of Appeal recently issued another opinion on contractor licensing that has important implications to contractors and...
1/14/2019 9:02:00 PM Opening the Doors to Receivership Success: A Roundtable Discussion By Gary Kaplan Receivers Roundtable Presentation Outline Receivership Sale Issues CCP 568.5: “A receiver may, pursuant to an order of the court, sell...
1/14/2019 9:01:57 PM Reducing Development Agreement Risks in Municipal Bankruptcies By Gary Kaplan Published in the spring edition of Commercial Real Estate Developement As part of a bankruptcy, a city can assume or reject “executory...
1/14/2019 9:01:54 PM Do Construction Managers Need to be Licensed? Most Likely, Yes By Farella Braun and Martel Published in the May/June 2013 issue of California Constructor Owners’ reliance on professional construction managers (CMs) has...
1/14/2019 9:01:47 PM Construction ADR - A Comprehensive Resource from the Top Legal Minds in the Construction Industry By Kelly Matayoshi Published by the American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry Construction Partner Charles Sink, co-editor, author, “Types...
1/14/2019 9:01:46 PM Best Practices for Public-Private Partnerships By Farella Braun and Martel Published in the March/April 2014 issue of AGC California's California Constructor Public-private partnerships (“P3s”) for public...
1/14/2019 9:01:44 PM Newly-Published Regional Steel Case Raises More Questions Than It Answers By Erica Villanueva In May, California’s Second Appellate District affirmed a summary ruling that a Commercial General Liability insurer did not have a duty...
10/7/2014 8:01:00 PM New California Law Holds Employers Liable for Labor Contractor’s Wage Violations By Doug Dexter Kelly Matayoshi Holly Sutton California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law A.B. 1897, significantly expanding the potential liability of employers who use...