Publications

Arbitration or the Code of Civil Procedure: Which is more likely to bar your claim?

By Adam D.H. Grant
Calif. Bar Law Practice Management & Technology Section’s The Bottom Line - Fall 2011

City of Los Angeles Needs ‘Unpolitician’

Op-Ed By David W. Fleming and Lee Kanon Alpert
Los Angeles Business Journal – August 22, 2011

Bankruptcy Court Decisions Limit Debtor’s Lien Stripping Options Under Chapter

By Mark S. Blackman, Esq., Alpert Barr & Grant
United Trustees Association - Winter 2010

More Than Just Rules

By Lee Kanon Alpert
California Bar’s Practice Management’s The Bottom Line - August 2011

Still Searching for That Safe Harbor, Revising Your ADR Provisions: Look Before You Leap

By Gary L. Barr and Terry Sternberg
California Mortgage Association’s “Points of Interest” – Sumer 2011

Arbitration or the Code of Civil Procedure: Which Is More Likely to Bar Your Claim?

By Adam D.H. Grant
Daily Journal - June 8, 2011

Gary L. Barr Featured in CMHI Publication

ManuFacts, March/April 2011

The Art of Collections in a Down Economy

By Alex S. Kasendorf
California Bar’s Practice Management’s The Bottom Line - February 2011

Chapter 13 Plans Containing Unsupported Provisions May Still Be Enforceable If Creditor Fails to Make A Timely Objection

By Mark S. Blackman
United Trustees Association - Summer 2010

Referral Sources: Think Outside The Box

By Lee Kanon Alpert
California Bar’s Practice Management’s The Bottom Line - August 2010

Sorting Out Lien Priority

By Mark S. Blackman
The Daily Journal – November 19, 2009

Has Technology Changed the Practice of Law for the Better?

By Gary L. Barr
The Bottom Line – June 2009
State Bar of California, Law Practice Management & Technology Section

Now What? Calm Urged When Theft Hits Your Company

By Adam D.H. Grant
From the San Fernando Valley Business Journal, February 16, 2009

By Mark S. Blackman
On July 8, 2008, the California Legislature adopted, and the governor signed Senate Bill 1137 finding that California was facing an unprecedented threat to the state economy and local economies because of skyrocketing residential property foreclosures.

From the Daily Journal, July 2008

Loan Stars

By Mark S. Blackman
In July 2008, the California Legislature attempted to stem the rising tide of foreclosures by enacting Senate Bill 1137, which amended California’s foreclosure statutes and required that loan servicers and lenders contact their borrowers to discuss their financial condition and the alternatives to foreclosure before they could commence a foreclosure.

From the Daily Journal, March 2009

Waste Land

By GARY BARR
The antideficiency rules in foreclosures does not apply in cases of bad faith waste.

From the Los Angeles Lawyer, February 2008

Anti-Deficiency Laws in California

By LEE KANON ALPERT AND MARK S. BLACKMAN
As the real estate market slows, California is experiencing an increase in foreclosures. Some lenders are starting to see a repeat of the early 1990s: The real property, which secured payment of a promissory note, does not have sufficient equity to satisfy the debt.

From the California Real Estate Journal Daily, May 2007