HB in the news
Calfornia Greenin': CBSA Creates New Building Requirements to Decrease Global Warming Emissions
Jonathan Storper, partner and group chair of the sustainable business practice group, reviews California's efforts to decrease global warming emissions in this month's edition of The Registry... Read More
(PDF, reprinted with permission from The Registry)
Bill Would Alter Legal Landscape for Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements
In this Nursing Home Litigation Reporter article, Senior Counsel Lori Ferguson discusses the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act of 2008... Read More
(PDF, reprinted with permission from Andrews Litigation Reporter)
Sustainable Business Leadership Forum Highlighted in GreenBiz
Hanson Bridgett's September Sustainable Business Leadership Forum with California State Treasurer, Bill Lockyer and Executive Editor of GreenBiz, Joel Makower was recently highlighted in GreenBiz... Read More
(External link provided with permission of GreenBiz.com)
Building Information Modeling: A Framework for Collaboration
In this Construction Lawyer article, Partner Howard Ashcraft discusses the attributes of building information modeling that conflict with traditional notions of responsibility and proposes alternative business and legal structures that support using BIM in a collaborative environment... Read More
(Published in Construction Lawyer, Volume 28, Number 3, Summer 2008 © 2008 by the American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission.)
California Bill Vets Triple Bottom Lines
In this Sustainable Industries article, Partner Jonathan Storper advocates for AB 2944, California legislation allowing CEOs to consider factors other than shareholder profits when making business decisions... Read More
(PDF, reprinted with permission from Sustainable Industries)
San Francisco's Green Building Ordinance: All That Glitters...
David Longinotti, partner and chair of the real estate practice group, reviews the impact of the City's new green initiative in this month's edition of The Registry... Read More
(Reprinted with permission from The Registry)
Green Business Innovators Interview HB Partner
Jonathan Storper, partner and chair of the sustainable business practice, explains both the business and personal benefits of becoming a more sustainable law firm... Read More
After 17 Years, Hanson Bridgett Attorneys Claim Victory at Pine Creek
Hanson Bridgett Attorneys Ladd Bedford, Michael Van Zandt and Dennis McQuaid are highlighted in Range Magazine article titled "Victory at Pine Creek"... Read More
(Reprinted from RANGE magazine, 1-800-RANGE-4-U (726-4348).)
Is It Time for Your Business to Go Green?
Whether it's because it's the right thing to do, the market and customers are demanding it or there are cost savings to be realized, the reality is this: everyone is doing it... Read More
(Reprinted with permission from North Bay Business Journal)
In an Appellate First, Attacks on Will Barred after Estate Owner Dies
For the first time, a California appellate court has said that when a conservator seeks court approval of an estate plan, while the subject is living, any challenge to the will must be raised at that hearing—not when the person dies... Read More
(Reprinted with permission from The National Law Journal)
Estate and Transfer Tax Planning
Trusts and Estates Legal Strategies: Leading Lawyers on Drafting an Estate Plan, Implementing Clients' Objectives, and Understanding Tax Complications... Read More
(Reprinted with permission from Aspatore Books)
Adding the Environment to the Scales of Justice
In this GreenBiz.com article, partner Jonathan Storper and Hanson Bridgett are highlighted for green leadership... Read More
(External link provided with permission of GreenBiz.com)
Prop G: Coming To a Neighborhood Near You
Partner David Longinotti writes that cities may adopt legislation that discriminates among competitors to further a legitimate legislative purpose... Read More
(Reprinted with permission from The Registry)
McQuaid Firms Closes Its Doors
Hanson Bridgett Expands Real Estate, Water, Environmental and Business Practices by Bringing on McQuaid Attorneys... Read More
(Reprinted with permission from The Recorder. © 2008 NLP IP Company.)
Shielding the Green
Partner Jonathan Storper advocates for "socially responsible" California constituency statute in this San Francisco Recorder story... Read More
(Reprinted with permission from The Recorder. © 2008 NLP IP Company.)
Contesting the No Contest Clause
Where there's a will — and a no contest clause — there's way too much litigation. At least that's the view shared by many attorneys who practice within the trust and estate bar in California... Read More (PDF, reprinted with permission of the San Francisco Daily Journal)
Taxing Questions on House of Rep's Legislation
In June of last year, far-reaching legislation was proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives that would have significantly changed the manner in which general partners and managers of private equity funds are taxed. H.R. 2834, proposed by Rep. Sander Levin, would have... Read More (PDF, reprinted with permission of the San Francisco Business Times)
Employment Law Roundtable
Hanson Bridgett Partners Dorothy Liu and Jahmal Davis discuss two cases pending before the California Supreme Court regarding recent shifts in employment law relating to individual responsibility in harassment and retaliation allegations, as well as major developments in disability law... Read More (PDF)
TOD Projects Result From Creative Approaches to Land Acquisition
In this article published by the California Transit Association, Hanson Bridgett partners David Miller and Michael Conneran, along with Brian Fitzpatrick of the San Mateo County Transit District, outline land acquisition strategies for transit oriented development (TOD) projects... Read More (PDF, reprinted with permission)
Hanson Bridgett Woos Top Talent
Hanson Bridgett's uncanny knack for recruiting and keeping talent relies on something more than deep pockets. Read The San Francisco Daily Journal's article on the firm's approach... Read More (PDF)
Thinking Outside of the Box
In this North Bay Business Journal article, Former Senator Jackie Speier offers a roadmap for policymakers and concerned citizens seeking traffic relief in Marin... Read More (PDF)
A Matter of Trusts: Transportation Law
On May 7, 2007, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board published decision STB-656; this new policy may sound the death knell for the last vestiges of antitrust immunity regarding collective rate making in the trucking and household- goods-moving industries... Read More (PDF)
SEC Proposes Significant New Rules
After being told by the D.C. Court of Appeals that the SEC had overstepped its bounds as regards hedge fund registration requirements, the SEC proposed new accredited investors rules that would impact private equity and hedge funds. See Hanson Bridgett Partner Scott Smith's analysis of this impact, as originally appeared in the February 15 edition of the San Francisco Business Times... Read More (PDF, reprinted with permission of the San Francisco Business Times)
