Recently I’ve come across a number of articles reporting on what I will refer to as the “bliss” factor for employees, measuring, for example, happiness with their current career path, with the city in which they work, etc. CareerBliss has published a number of bliss lists, evaluating what it considers…
Co-head of Pillsbury’s Energy Industry team Rob James and project finance partner Philip Tendler recently published 2014 Project Finance – United States. In it, they discuss collateral, how security interests are perfected and prioritized, liens, and enforcement of collateral. In addition, they touch on bankruptcy, foreign exchange, remittances, repatriation, offshore…
The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced that the following 20 collegiate teams have been selected to compete in the U.S. Solar Decathlon 2015 that will be held at the Orange County Great Park, located between Los Angeles and San Diego, in Irvine, California: California Polytechnic State University California State…
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System — the largest concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in the world — officially opened on February 13, 2014. According to its website, “[l]ocated in the Mojave Desert, Ivanpah has 347,000 garage door-sized mirrors distributed across 173,500 heliostats. The heliostats track with the sun so…
UPDATE: Chief Executive Magazine, Best & Worst States for Business (May 2014) — In the 10th annual survey of CEOs, over 500 CEOs across the U.S. graded states with which they were familiar on a variety of measures, including the tax and regulatory regime, the quality of the workforce and…
You can never be 100% sure of what you will find below the surface when you begin excavating on a construction project. But I’m willing to bet construction workers in Seattle, Washington never anticipated finding a very rare 10,000 year old mammoth tusk. An employee of a plumbing subcontractor uncovered…
Today, Pillsbury attorneys William M. Sullivan, Jr., and Benjamin J. Cote published their advisory titled Feds’ Reliance on Environmental Activism Underscores Need for Lacey Act Compliance. This advisory discusses the search warrant recently executed by U.S. Customs and Fish and Wildlife Service agents on a Virginia-based flooring wholesaler premised on…
Privacy has and continues to be a hot topic in California and across the nation. On February 13, 2014, the California Office of the Attorney General confirmed that the “[c]ontinuous videotaping surveillance of truck drivers during their on-the-job driving does not constitute a misdemeanor under [California] Labor Code section 1051
Brewer Corporation v. Point Center Financial, Inc. Fourth Appellate District, Division 1 (San Diego County) January 31, 2014 Direct contractors who fail to serve a preliminary 20-day stop payment notice on the project’s construction lender do so at their own peril. The California Court of Appeal (hereinafter, the “Court”) recently…
New Jersey’s State Board of Examiners of Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) Contractors (Board) has extended the operative date of its regulations, N.J.A.C. 13:32A, implementing the “State Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contracting License Law”, N.J.S.A. 45:16A-1 et seq. (Act), to March 1, 2014. The Board will…