Arbitration provisions are increasingly common in construction contracts. Indeed, the boilerplate AIA contract documents include a...

I think it's safe to say that we're well past any lingering economic impacts of COVID-19 although it has undoubtedly left an indelible...

The 2025 Southern California wildfires – the Palisades Fire (January 7, 2025), Eaton Fire (January 7, 2025), Hughes Fire (January 22,...

It’s that time of year again. The second half of the 2023-2024 legislative session saw the introduction of 2,124 bills, of which, 1418...

For both private works projects and state and local public works projects in California, higher-tiered contractors can find themselves...

In CBRE v. Superior Court , 102 Cal.App .5th 639 (2024), the 4th District Court of Appeal grappled with a thorny and not-so-thorny issue...

Attorneys will commonly add a Code of Civil Procedure section 664.6 provision in their settlement agreements to ensure that courts have...

For a number of years we have had the honor to serve as update authors for several publications of California’s Continuing Education of...

As most public works contractors know, Labor Code section 1777.5 requires the hiring of apprentices on public works projects and, under...

What’s in a word? When it comes to insurance policies, a word, can potentially mean millions of dollars. In California Specialty...

If you’re like me and many others you’ve probably been watching the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. We were in Paris last year and...

Wage and hour laws dictating how employers must compensate their employees for time worked can, given the innumerable ways that employees...

It’s not quite Baskin Robbin’s “31 Flavors” but the panoply of statutory construction payment remedies available to contractors,...

In a bit of a major freak-out this past Friday, June 28, 2024, public works contractors with Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”)...

Nomos LLP Partner Garret Murai has been recognized as a 2024 Northern California Super Lawyers honoree in the area of Construction...

We got the productivity bug this Memorial Day weekend and updated and added a few new  statutory construction payment forms to our...

Sometimes the small stuff matters. And when it comes to legal disputes this can pose a problem for clients as well as their attorneys...

Back in the day, if someone had a problem with you the rules of school yard jungle dictated that they had better tell it to your face or...

If you work on state or local public works projects in California you should have at least a basic understanding of the Government Claims...

In November 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved amendments to . . . wait for it . . . its "In-Use Off-Road...