April 13, 2016: Christopher Haskell, a member of the firm’s business litigation department, will present a seminar to the Santa Barbara Contractors Association addressing contractor’s licenses and the Contractor State License Board. The seminar will be directed to home improvement contractors interested in protecting their licenses and avoiding disciplinary actions by the CSLB. The presentation…
February 25, 2016: Melissa Fassett, a member of the firm’s Employment Litigation Department, presented a seminar to the Santa Barbara County Bar Association addressing the legal developments in employment law effective in 2016. The seminar discussed the new laws recently enacted which affect employers and also discussed recent developments in case law which alter the…
January 23, 2016: Price, Postel & Parma is a proud Gold Sponsor of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association’s 2016 Bench & Bar Conference. This year’s conference features a “State of the Bar” address by David J. Pasternak, President of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association and a keynote address on the “State of Immigration…
January 1, 2016: Price, Postel & Parma is pleased to announce that Kristen M. R. Blabey has become a partner of the firm. Ms. Blabey’s practice includes estate planning, probate, trust administration, taxation, and conservatorship matters. She focuses on all aspects of estate planning including creating trusts, wills, charitable trusts, directives, durable powers of attorney,…
November 11, 2015: Firm partner Todd Amspoker and other firm lawyers represented the East Bay Regional Park District in successful eminent domain litigation against the United States of America. The Park District operates Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda, California. The United States owned land adjacent to Crown Beach, and sought to sell part of…
May 8, 2015: Craig Parton was part of a panel addressing the topic of “Groundwater Adjudications in the Age of Sustainable Groundwater Management.” The presentation took place on May 6th at the Spring conference of the Association of California Water Agencies in Sacramento and discussed the impact of California’s new Sustainable Groundwater Management Act on…
April 28, 2015: Christopher Haskell, a member of the firm’s real estate litigation department, will speak at the Sterling Education Services’ Fundamentals of Landlord-Tenant Law Seminar in Santa Barbara, California. Mr. Haskell’s presentation will address Eviction and Judicial Process. Sterling Education Services, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA),…
March 27, 2015: Trusts and Estates specialist Kristen Blabey was recently interviewed by KEYT News in Santa Barbara for a segment focusing on the recent Germanwings jetliner crash in the French Alps and how, given the many uncertainties in life, it is prudent to have a conversation about estate planning and to set up a…
Craig Parton just completed representing one of the largest water producers in the West Coast Basin (Los Angeles County) in court proceedings relating to amending a judgment concerning water rights. The original judgment dates back to 1945. The case involved numerous municipalities, public agencies and related entities, water purveyors, and overlying right holders and was…
Price, Postel & Parma, one of Santa Barbara’s oldest and most respected law firms, is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Martindale-Hubbell as a 2014 Top Ranked Law Firm in California. Martindale-Hubbell chooses the top law firms by identifying those firms in which at least one out of five of their lawyers…
