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Legal Alert 5/22/2013
Lenders Beware: Debt Can Now Be Recharacterized as Equity in the Ninth Circuit
Legal Alert 5/21/2013
Commercial and Residential Developers, Builders and Landlords Face New Storm Water Regulations
Legal Alert 5/6/2013
Prevailing Wages: Beware of Fee Waivers Even When They are Not Waived
Labor & Employment Legal Alert 5/1/2013
Employers Must Update Several Policies, Forms and Posters
Legal Alert 4/22/2013
California Commercial Building Owners Must Disclose Energy Usage of the Building During Sale, Lease or Financing after July 1, 2013
Legal Alert 4/16/2013
New California Court of Appeal Decision May Affect Administration of Foreclosure-Avoidance Actions
Legal Alert 4/12/2013
Action Required by California Commercial Landlords: New California Law Goes Into Effect July 1, 2013, Requiring Accessibility Disclosures in Commercial Leases
Legal Alert 4/8/2013
Certain Residential Developments Exempt from CEQA Review: Greenhouse Gas Emission Issues Do Not Constitute New Information
Legal Alert 2/25/2013
Commercial Landlords in San Francisco Beware
Legal Alert 2/19/2013
Energy Use Disclosure Requirements Go Into Effect for Owners of Nonresidential California Buildings
Legal Alert 12/17/2012
Will Your Indemnity Clauses be Unenforceable on January 1, 2013?
Labor & Employment Legal Alert 12/3/2012
New California Employment Laws For 2013
Legal Alert 9/27/2012
California Property and Business Owners Gain Protection from Predatory ADA Lawsuits
Legal Alert 9/21/2012
Coalition for Clean Air: Filing an NOE Before Project Approval Does Not Trigger CEQA's 35-Day Statute of Limitations
Legal Alert 9/17/2012
Recent Ninth Circuit Decision Emphasizes Importance Of Remaining Vigilant – And Current – In Connection With Consumer Finance Regulation Compliance
Legal Alert 8/16/2012
Developers Earn Major Victory in California Supreme Court Regarding Enforcement of Arbitration Provisions in CC&Rs
Legal Alert 8/1/2012
Proposed Safer Consumer Product Regulations Will Be Transformative
Legal Alert 7/30/2012
For Housing Developers Seeking Enforcement of ADR Provisions, the Line Forms at the Rear
Legal Alert 7/20/2012
"Who is going to pay for this?"
California Court of Appeal Highlights Receiver Compensation Issues

Legal Alert 7/6/2012
California Supreme Court Rules that Prevailing Wage Laws Do Not Apply to Charter Cities
Healthcare Summit Reveals Industry Movement Independent of Reform 6/27/2012
Healthcare Summit Reveals Industry Movement Independent of Reform

Regardless of the outcome of the anticipated June 28, 2012, Supreme Court decision on healthcare reform, leaders in the industry say that they are already focused on cost containment. Panelists at a recent healthcare summit say they are looking to take some services out of the hospital and put them in more convenient (and cheaper) locations. Calling it the “retailing of medical office real estate,” healthcare companies are now providing some services in retail buildings or repurposing other types of real estate instead of building the more costly typical medical office building.

Standards of Care for Due Diligence in Company Acquisitions - Clark Libenson 5/9/2012
Standards of Care for Due Diligence in Company Acquisitions

The board of directors is entitled to rely upon input of experts, including outside legal counsel and independent accountants, as well as reports prepared by management of the company. The due diligence checklist covers a broad array of topics that are designed to elicit responses from the target company so the target company will either prepare narratives describing certain items of interest to the acquiror or furnish documentation that the acquiror will have the opportunity to review.

Legal Alert 5/3/2012
Sierra Club v. Napa: Sequential Lot Line Adjustments are Consistent with the Subdivision Map Act and are Exempt from CEQA
Legal Alert 4/25/2012
Appellate Court Upholds Use of Future CEQA Baseline in Neighbors for Smart Rail and Rejects Sunnyvale Holding
Legal Alert 4/25/2012
FTB Reverses Course on Mello-Roos Taxes - For Now
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