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Attorneys Michael Murray and Sunny Lee recently obtained a summary judgment against former NBA All Star and current President of the South Sudan Basketball Federation Luol Deng.  The case arose from a dispute over a development project in New York....More

Congratulations to Associate Attorney Emily Gifford for obtaining a low settlement for a general contractor client. Lanak & Hanna’s general contractor client received a six-figure demand from a former employee threatening a lawsuit for wage and hour violations. Lanak &...More

Congratulations to Principal Attorney Mac W. Cabal for securing the holy grail of litigation practice – a trial court reversal on appeal. The case involved entry of an adverse judgment against the client. Recognizing trial court error and flawed reasoning...More

Lanak & Hanna’s Judgment Enforcement Team, including Attorney Lauren B. Stec and Senior Paralegal Sara Villalobos, recently secured full recovery on a year-old judgment for a supplier client. After obtaining judgment through a successful Motion for Summary Judgment and Motion...More

Congratulations to Attorney Amber Kim for successfully recovering all attorney fees, costs and interest incurred in defending against a Petition for Surcharge in probate court and also ultimately a dismissal of that same Petition for Surcharge. In a California conservatorship,...More

Congratulations Attorney David Johnson and Erica Loftis Pacheco in successfully defending against and seeking recovery on behalf of a subcontractor client on a public works project.  Lanak & Hanna filed suit against the general contractor who terminated the subcontractor when...More

Congratulations to Attorney Erica Loftis Pacheco!  Lanak & Hanna was asked to step into a case for a general contractor on an emergency basis just two months prior to trial.  Despite strong opposition by the homeowner Defendant, Mrs. Loftis Pacheco...More

Congratulations to Attorney Lauren Stec for obtaining a six-figure settlement for Lanak & Hanna’s steel subcontractor. The steel subcontractor client performed over half a million dollars of work on a storage facility project in Solano County. Unfortunately, the general contractor...More

Congratulations to Principal Attorney Natasha Buchanan for obtaining a complete recovery for a subcontractor client.  Lanak & Hanna’s subcontractor client recorded a mechanics lien against a project when the prime contractor stopped making payments.  Ms. Buchanan made demands on the...More

Attorney Michael Murray recovered full payment for a drone supplier against a former reseller out of Australia. Lanak & Hanna’s client designated a new partner as the exclusive seller of the client’s drones in Australia, but the relationship quickly soured...More

Supplier client at Lanak & Hanna was waiting many years to receive payment from a contractor who had refused to even acknowledge the debt until attorneys Michael Murray and Sunny Lee filed a lawsuit on the client’s behalf. Though the...More

Lanak & Hanna Principal Attorney Colin K. McCarthy successfully prevailed in an administrative proceeding against the City of Long Beach on a sizable airport construction project.  At stake was a multi-million contract for significant improvements to airport water operations for...More

Attorney Michael Murray recovered payment for a contractor who had installed solar systems at two golf courses. After the general contractor absconded with the payments that were owed to Lanak & Hanna’s client, Mr. Murray filed multiple lawsuits against both...More

In a testament to the firms tenacity and never give up attitude, Principal Attorney Michael Murray recovered payment for a client on a judgment that had been entered almost four years ago. When the client, a roofing subcontractor, was not...More

Attorneys Michael Murray and Sunny Lee recently obtained a settlement for a supplier client on a nearly $900,000 debt that the customer had been refusing to pay for years. When Mr. Murray and Ms. Lee filed the lawsuit on behalf...More

Attorney Michael Murray recently recovered nearly half a million dollars for a supplier client after their customer went out of business. By perfecting and enforcing the client’s mechanics lien rights, Mr. Murray forced the owner of the project to step...More

Congratulations to Attorney David R. Johnson for obtaining a complete victory on a performance bond issued by a surety client.  The project’s owner asserted a high six figure claim against a Lanak & Hanna surety client in state court litigation...More

Congratulations to Principal Attorney Natasha Buchanan for obtaining a complete recovery for her general contractor client and their subcontractors and suppliers.  Lanak & Hanna’s general contractor client recorded a mechanics lien against a project when the tenant of the property...More

Congratulations to Attorney Lauren Stec for obtaining a complete victory at arbitration for a steel subcontractor client. The case involved a general contractor’s failure to pay Lanak & Hanna’s steel subcontractor client on a project in Banning, CA. The general...More

Congratulations to Trial Attorney and Principal Mac W. Cabal for securing a prompt payment penalty construction victory for the client in arbitration. The client was a subcontractor who entered into a construction contract with a general contractor. The contract did...More

Attorney Lauren Stec obtained a complete victory at trial for a supplier client. The case involved a customer’s failure to pay Lanak & Hanna’s supplier client under a credit agreement. The customer took the position that it never signed the...More

Congratulations to Trial Attorney and Principal Mac W. Cabal for winning a trademark infringement case for the client. The client was a prominent non-profit sports association that hosted and managed a well-known and attended national athletic tournament in Southern California...More

Erica Loftis Pacheco of Lanak & Hanna successfully defended a general contractor and project owner, a local university, from a subcontractor’s attempt to triple its contract price. Subcontractor filed suit on a one-time fee contract alleging that it had completed...More

Congratulations to Associate Attorney, Charles Stec, for being victorious at trial for Lanak & Hanna’s contractor client. The general contractor client filed suit for the unpaid balance on a home improvement project. In turn, the homeowner filed a cross-complaint alleging...More

Congratulations to Senior Counsel David Johnson and Principal Attorney Mac W. Cabal for causing a United States District Court case to be dismissed out of hand. A complete defense judgment entered in favor of the client. The federal case concerned...More

Principal Attorney Natasha Buchanan successfully responded to two bid protests on two separate public works projects, which resulted in the awarded contract to Lanak & Hanna’s general contractor clients. Lanak & Hanna’s general contractor client was the lowest bidder on...More

Lanak & Hanna recently obtained a favorable settlement in a complex alter ego case against the former CEO and CFO of a recycling company. The firm opposed a contractor who sought to hold the executives personally liable for $1.8 million...More

Lanak & Hanna’s supplier client recorded mechanics liens and stop payment notices against two projects when their customer stopped paying and stopped responding to calls and messages. Michael Murray made demands on the owner and general contractor to pay or...More

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Principal Attorney Natasha Buchanan successfully defended her contractor client in a case before the Labor Commissioner’s office where a former employee made claims that the contractor wrongfully terminated the employee for seeking leave.  The hearing officer found that the employer...More

Surety counsel, Tracy Stevenson, Esq. (ret. senior associate), and Amber Kim, Esq., were successful in preventing a $353,000 Co-Trustee bond loss. In a long awaited week long trial that spanned over a year given the court’s impacted schedule, the court...More

Attorney Lauren Stec obtained a complete dismissal in favor of her homeowner client who was being sued for Foreclosure of Mechanics Lien. Ms. Stec’s client is a homeowner who had solar work performed on his home. Despite the homeowner paying...More

Congratulations to Principal Attorney Mac W. Cabal in securing a complete appellate victory on behalf of a surety client for Lanak & Hanna. The case came to Lanak & Hanna on appeal from another law firm. In doing so, Lanak...More

Our law firm, Lanak & Hanna, recently represented a shareholder of a prominent construction corporation in a complex legal dispute involving construction law. The case involved allegations of breach of contract and fraud brought by a homeowner against both the...More

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Associate Attorney Lauren Stec successfully protested two bids on behalf its general contractor client on a 2-million-dollar city police department renovation project. Lanak & Hanna’s general contractor client was originally the fourth lowest bidder on the project. The lowest bidder...More

After successfully winning a four-day bench trial on behalf of a public works general contractor client, Lanak & Hanna Senior Counsel Mark Johnson obtained an attorney’s fees award for 100% of the fees incurred in taking the matter through trial. ...More

Lanak & Hanna Senior Counsel Mac Cabal secured a dismissal of a case at the outset of trial.  At issue, was a long-running dispute between a taxpayer advocate and a general contractor over baseless allegations that the general contractor had...More

For the fifth time in a row this year, Lanak and Hanna’s trial team has prevailed on behalf of its clients in the courtroom.   Senior Counsel Mark Johnson secured a six-figure judgment against a general contractor and its surety on...More

Associate Attorney Lauren Stec has prevailed in an administrative hearing challenging the validity of an unsupported and inflated stop payment notice.   A subcontractor filed an unsubstantiated $150,000 stop notice against the prime contractor client.  Utilizing the provisions of Civil Code...More

Lanak & Hanna trial lawyers Michael Murray and Thomas Padian have prevailed again in trial, this time in a breach of contract lawsuit between two business partners.  The client loaned money to a former employee to start his own business....More

Cal Trans Bid Lanak & Hanna Senior Counsel Mac Cabal represented a general contractor in connection with a California Department of Transportation (“Caltrans”) public works project.  The general contractor was the low bidder.  However, shortly after bid opening, Caltrans deemed...More

Lanak & Hanna attorney Lauren Stec successfully protested a multi-million-dollar school construction bid. After denial of the original client protest, Ms. Stec was brought in to challenge the school district’s original position. She was able to convince the District of...More

Lanak & Hanna attorney Amber Kim successfully prevailed in trial on behalf of a surety after opening statements and motions in limine. Ms. Kim was able to preclude any liability on the surety’s bond and also successfully recovered the surety’s...More

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In the representation of a surety who issued a mechanic’s lien release bond on a residential project, Lanak & Hanna Associate Attorney Lauren B. Stec was victorious on demurrer defeating a time barred and previously released bond claim recloaked as...More

In the representation of a general contractor who was building a new $500,000.00 residential home for two homeowners, Ms. Stec defeated the homeowner’s Petition to Release the general contractor’s Mechanics Lien and obtained an award for attorney fees after being...More

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Lanak & Hanna represented a general contractor in an action with the Division of Labor Standards & Enforcement (DLSE). The DLSE issued a Civil Wage and Penalty Assessment to the general contractor claiming unpaid wages, penalties and failure to submit the DAS...More

Lanak & Hanna is often asked to draft a contract for our client or review a contract that has been presented to our client by the owner or prime contractor. We have attorneys who are well versed in drafting and...More

The key to successful recovery is invoking the right remedy for each situation. This makes the commercial collections process far more sophisticated and ultimately rewarding (professionally to the attorney, and monetarily to the client), at least this is the case...More

After a collection lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Contractor (represented by L&H), the Owner began publishing negative posts about the Contractor. L&H amended the lawsuit to include a defamation claim. In response, the Owner challenged the claim, arguing that...More

As a commercial supplier (often referred to as a creditor), it can be hard enough to turn accounts receivable into revenue. This is especially true when the particular client or debtor goes out of business and closes its doors. But...More