Today, Pillsbury attorney Ray Sweigart posted his advisory titled English Contract Law: Your Word May Still be Your Bond. The advisory discusses English law on oral contracts and the English courts’ willingness to find that binding contracts have been made despite the lack of a final writing and signature.
Construction is set to begin in April on a highway bypass south of College Station, Texas. But a group of ancient oak trees sits near the site where the road will run. The Texas Department of Transportation (“TxDOT”) intended to remove four of the trees, each 200 to 300 years…
Not surprisingly, after the cyber-attacks that occurred at a couple (or perhaps few) large retailers over the holidays there has been much discussion about the need to ramp up efforts to protect against such attacks. According to a Guide entitled Cybersecurity in the Golden State that was recently issued by…
Not only is the government out to sting contractors (as noted by G2G’s Amy Pierce here), now Hollywood is too. Rima Suqi’s New York Times interview, “Getting Contractors to Man Up” (subscription required if you’ve used up your free articles) notes that SpikeTV has a new show about bad apple…
One of the first tactical lessons most litigators learn is not to overstate your position. Another lesson is to always remain civil, even in the face of an un-civil opponent. These lessons are sometimes difficult for young lawyers, brimming with aggression, to digest. Most of the time when one of…
You’d be surprised at how often we find mistakes at the beginning of projects that, if not caught, would put most of a client’s insurance coverage at risk. Clients frequently ask us to review their controlled insurance programs (often referred to as “CIPs” or “Wrap-Ups”) before implementing them. Brokers do…
Recently a California Court of Appeal affirmed a superior court’s judgment and order confirming that the City of San Leandro (City) had not abused its discretion by waiving a bid defect and awarding the public project contract to that bidder. The court, in Bay Cities Paving & Grading, Inc. v.…
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, 2014 Women in Construction Week (Mar. 2, 2014) — “NOW, THEREFORE, I, Terence R. McAuliffe, do hereby recognize March 2-9, 2014, as WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION WEEK in the COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, and I call this observance to the attention of all our citizens.”
Star Equipment, Ltd., Manatt’s, Inc., and Short’s Concrete Cutting Co. recently secured a victory in the Iowa Supreme Court when the Court, in Star Equipment, Ltd., v. State of Iowa, Iowa Department of Transportation, Case No. 12-1378 (Jan. 31, 2014), reversed the district court’s ruling on the scope of remedies…
Today, Pillsbury attorneys Lawrence L. Hoenig, Craig A. Becker, Richard E. Nielsen, Dianne L. Sweeney, Matthew F. Burke and Breann Robowski posted their advisory titled 70 Days and Counting: Clock Is Ticking to Claim Embedded Software Tax Exemption. The advisory encourages companies to review California’s embedded software exemption, an established…