Best Practices for Construction Sites in the Age of COVID-19
Get recommendations and guidelines that contractors, trades, and others have developed to allow California to continue to build during COVID-19.
Category: Law Practice
Learning from the 2015 Berkeley Balcony Collapse: SB 326 Creates New Inspection Requirements and Opportunities for Addressing Construction Defects
Just after midnight on June 16, 2015, a fifth-floor balcony collapsed in Berkeley, California. Six young people were killed and another seven were injured. The tragedy sparked national interest in construction practices.
Tips from the Bench: Interview with Judge Kevin A. Enright
Do not lose sight of your desire to change the world.
Montrose Again: California Adopts Vertical Exhaustion Theory of Access to Upper Level Excess Insurance Policies
In the latest iteration of the Montrose Chemical v. Superior Court[1] litigation, the California Supreme Court unanimously adopted the “vertical exhaustion” rule allowing policyholders to tap excess policies after having exhausted the underlying excess policies with lower attachment points in the same policy period.
Message from the Chair of the New Lawyer Division
Hi NLDers, I hope you all are still safe, healthy, and remembered to send your mom flowers and zoom with her on Mother’s Day.
COVID-19 Legislation Protecting Renters and Buyers May Be Unconstitutional
The COVID-19 pandemic is testing landlord-tenant relationships in California like never before.
COVID-19 and Me: The Impact of the Novel Coronavirus on Employment
As lawyers, our typical response of “it depends” seems insufficient in this already tenuous atmosphere.
COVID-19 Has Altered the Practice of Law, but Not Your Ethical Obligations
Although the San Diego Superior Court is scheduled to reopen for more than emergency services on May 26, 2020, the changes wrought by COVID-19 upon the legal profession will reverberate for the foreseeable future.
Advance Fees and Loan Modification
May a lawyer require clients to pay advance fees for valid litigation services in matters concerning loan modification?
Special President’s Message to the SDCBA Membership
We all are feeling the tremendous impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our work and our personal lives.