If you're a contractor, getting paid promptly is a very important part of staying in business. The same is true for subcontractors, who must often wait on a contractor to be paid before they can be paid for a completed…
Lanak & HannaJanuary 19, 2023
Associate Attorney Lauren Stec has prevailed in an administrative hearing challenging the validity of an unsupported and inflated stop payment notice. A subcontractor filed an unsubstantiated $150,000 stop notice against the prime contractor client. Utilizing the provisions of Civil Code…
Lanak & HannaNovember 17, 2021
Lanak & Hanna trial lawyers Michael Murray and Thomas Padian have prevailed again in trial, this time in a breach of contract lawsuit between two business partners. The client loaned money to a former employee to start his own business.…
Lanak & HannaJuly 29, 2021
Cal Trans Bid Lanak & Hanna Senior Counsel Mac Cabal represented a general contractor in connection with a California Department of Transportation (“Caltrans”) public works project. The general contractor was the low bidder. However, shortly after bid opening, Caltrans deemed…
Lanak & HannaJuly 28, 2021
Associate Attorney Lauren Stec assisted Lanak & Hanna’s general contractor client in protesting a school project award for $2.3 million. After reviewing the bid protest, the school district determined that the other bids were non-responsive, and awarded our client the…
Lauren StecFebruary 12, 2021
Senior Counsel Natasha Buchanan successfully obtained an ex parte Writ of Attachment for nearly $6 million dollars on behalf of a large surety client against a corporate defendant in United States District Court. Ms. Buchanan successfully convinced the Federal Court…
Natasha BuchananFebruary 5, 2021
In the representation of a surety who issued a mechanic’s lien release bond on a residential project, Lanak & Hanna Associate Attorney Lauren B. Stec was victorious on demurrer defeating a time barred and previously released bond claim recloaked as…
Lanak & HannaNovember 18, 2020
In the representation of a general contractor who was building a new $500,000.00 residential home for two homeowners, Ms. Stec defeated the homeowner’s Petition to Release the general contractor’s Mechanics Lien and obtained an award for attorney fees after being…
Lanak & HannaOctober 27, 2020
In a matter of first impression, on May 22, 2020 the Paris Commercial Court in Paris, France ruled that a group of restaurants claims for revenue loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic were covered under business interruption insurance policies issued…
Colin McCarthyJune 17, 2020
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