Price, Postel & Parma was a proud sponsor of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association‘s annual 2015 Bench and Bar Conference on January 24, 2015. The keynote address was provided by Nate Cardozo, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”). The EFF presentation was well received, sparking lively discussions between participating members. Numerous presentations…
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…
June 25, 2014: Christopher Haskell, a member of the firm, spoke at the SBCA seminar in Santa Barbara, California on Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Mr. Haskell’s presentation was entitled: Collecting Your Money – An Introduction to California Mechanic Lien Law.”
The homeowner’s associations and their respective boards for residential common interest developments are governed by the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act (“DSA”). The DSA was recently revised and restated and placed in a new division in the Civil Code. The changes took effect January 1, 2014 and include substantive changes, grouping related provisions in a…
Craig Parton successfully defended an employment case on behalf of a firm client located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The matter involved a highly contentious retaliation claim that sought a seven figure recovery.
Attorneys Sam Zodeh and Ian M. Fisher were instrumental in negotiations in the Estate of Huguette M. Clark, resulting in the creation of the Bellosguardo Foundation. In 2011, copper heiress Huguette M. Clark died at age 104. Clark’s Will established the Bellosguardo Foundation to foster the arts and directed that the Foundation receive Bellosguardo, the…
