Attorneys Olivia Marr, Marcus Kocmur, and Doug Large attended the Santa Barbara Courthouse Legacy Foundation miniature golf tournament last Friday. http://ow.ly/uts7305kVtl
May 2019 Perhaps you’ve invested in an apartment building as a source of retirement income. Maybe you inherited a second home from a relative, and are debating whether renting the…
June, 2019 When starting a business, it’s easy for owners to make legal mistakes that can prove costly down the road. Avoiding these missteps will keep your new venture…
September 2019 “PAGA” is the acronym for California’s fifteen-year-old Private Attorneys General Act. This Act allows an individual, on behalf of himself and other employees, to recover civil penalties for…
November 2019 Nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements can be an essential part of your business. These agreements protect the confidentiality of the trade secrets and important data for your company. They…
December 2019 Two months ago Governor Newsom signed AB 1482, bringing statewide rent control to California. The new law goes into effect January 1 and includes both a cap on…
February 2020 On September 18, 2019 Governor Newsom signed AB-5, codifying the now-infamous Dynamex decision as law. This new law radically changes the legal test for who is an employee…
When real property changes hands, California imposes two separate taxes – the annual real property tax and a documentary transfer tax. The annual real property tax is reassessed to fair…
Family controlled entities, which often take the form of a limited partnership or limited liability company, (FLP) are useful estate planning tools to help consolidate the ownership of multiple assets…
December 2016 “ADR” is the acronym for Alternative Dispute Resolution — usually mediation and/or binding arbitration as a means of resolving legal disputes. BFAS has been promoting ADR instead of…
