SMTD Law will hold their 2020 Holiday Lunch on December 22 at 12:30pm. This year’s celebration will be socially distanced and held via Zoom and will be followed by SMTD’s First Annual Ugly Holiday Sweater Competition! NO stylish sweaters allowed! Happy Holidays from SMTD Law LLP and stay tuned for [...]
SMTD Law LLP is excited to announce the addition of attorney Jennifer A. Needs to the Firm's Irvine Office. Jennifer A. Needs has diverse legal experience, but she focuses her practice in the areas of business, real estate, construction, surety, and lending law. Ms. Needs has experience in all phases [...]
SMTD Law LLP is pleased to announce the addition of attorney Jason Quimby to the Firm's Irvine Office. Jason Quimby focuses on representing and advising owners, developers, general contractors, and sureties in the areas of commercial claims and defects, whether in trial, arbitration, or alternative dispute resolution. Mr. Quimby also [...]
Join NAWIC LA Chapter #42 on October 20 for their virtual board installation ceremony, presided over by Marilyn Klinger, construction law partner at SMTD Law. The fun includes a virtual Treasure Trivia Hunt, and cocktail lessons demonstrated by hostess extraordinaire and mistress of mixology, Aly Proano. This event is free [...]
SMTD Law LLP partners Jonathan Dunn and Ali Salamirad will be discussing the Crosno decision and its impact on contractors and sureties in California at the September 23, 2020 National Association of Surety Bond Producers Virtual Event. Learn more about the event here: https://learn.nasbp.org/virtual-event-2020
SMTD Law’s Mike Timpane and Ed Stepans recently obtained a Final Award in favor of its general engineering contractor client who was pursuing direct claims and delay related damages on a $35M municipal composting facility. After six days of hearing, the arbitrator awarded SMTD Law’s client 201 days of compensable [...]
SMTD LAW LLP is seeking a senior attorney or partner level attorney with experience in handling complex litigation, especially in construction, surety and/or business litigation matters to join the team in our Irvine, California office. Our firm has grown into one of the most experienced and highly regarded group of [...]
Breaking News: Is the claim untimely? Maybe Not! On April 6, 2020, by order of the Judicial Council of California all statutes of limitations for civil actions are tolled until 90-days after the California Governor’s State of Emergency order concerning COVID-19 is lifted. For more information, please feel free to [...]
Ali Salamirad, SMTD Law LLP Founding and Managing Partner will be the guest speaker at the NAWIC OC General Meeting on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at 5:30PM. The general meeting will be held at the Embassy Suites in Anaheim, CA. Mr. Ali Salamirad will be discussing how to identify and [...]
Southern California attorney Jonathan J. Dunn of the law firm SMTD Law LLP has been selected as a Fellow of the Construction Lawyers Society of America. Mr. Dunn is a senior partner at SMTD Law, which focuses on construction, surety and business law and related litigation and transactional law. Mr. [...]