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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 &…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…