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Congratulations to our EG&H Best of the Bar Attorneys!

 

The San Diego Business Journal  recently showcased the top San Diego attorneys in private practice as nominated by their peers. Epsten Grinnell & Howell are proud to announce that Jon Epsten, Lori Bessler, Pejman Kharrazian and Mandy Hexom have all been honored among the 2015 "Best of the Bar." 
EVENTS

Save the Date!

Our 2015 Legal Symposium dates have been confirmed.

SAN DIEGO
November 20th
Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center

COACHELLA VALLEY
December 4th
Agua Caliente Resort & Casino

Click here for more information. Registration begins September 1st.
Join EG&H Attorney 

David Bruce with fellow speakers Mary Herrick of Prime Association Management and Charlie Magnan of Avalon Management for the next Advanced Essentials Course for board members.

 

Taught in two parts on 

May 30 and June 6 
at the CAI-GRIE office in Riverside.
Upcoming Events
To view upcoming participation at industry-wide events and speaking engagements, please click here.
May 2015 
Shareholder Insight
Over the years, I've seen clients waste time (and money) on legal fees which could have been avoided by following these five simple rules:
  1. Know the facts before you contact counsel. 
  2. Figure out what you really want to know. 
  3. If the incident or situation at issue has a history, send the entire history right off the bat. 
  4. If you have a "ballpark" number of hours in mind for a project, share it at the outset. 
  5. If you ask at the last minute, it just may not be possible to meet a time frame you have in mind. If you have a deadline at your end, share it.  

And if you haven't heard from your attorney in a reasonable amount of time, get on the line and figure out what's going on.  

 


Mary M. Howell

Shareholder
Chair, Senior Communities Practice Group 

Practice Areas: 
Community Association Counsel, Senior & Fair Housing and Civil Litigation
Records to Keep
By Karyn Larko, Esq.
Updated March, 2015
 

"Unfortunately, there are few laws that say exactly what records an association should keep or for how long..."  

 

Read this article for a great checklist of Records to Keep. 

 

Continue reading...

Perpetual Calendar of Board Duties

By Jay W. Hansen, Esq.

        Member of the College of Community Association Lawyers

 

For a board to be sure that it carries out its duties in a timely manner, it needs to know not only what duties are required of it, but also when those duties must be performed. 

 

We have prepared a checklist that each board can use to assist it in determining those duties, but it is ultimately up to the board to make sure that it performs those duties in a timely manner. The use of a "perpetual" calendar with reminders of upcoming and current duties will help the board to ensure that it doesn't miss any deadlines. 

 

View the complete article.

 

Internal Dispute Resolution Procedures
IDR: Ethics, Effective Dialogue & Maximizing Potential for Resoltion

Civil Code section 5915 gives community associations and their members a default procedure for conducting informal dispute resolution (IDR).  Legislation effective January 1, 2015, revised both this default procedure and the specific minimum criteria required for separately adopted, association-specific IDR procedures.  (Civil Code section 5910)  These criteria include the requirement that IDR agreements must be in writing and signed by both parties, and the provision that a member and an association may be be assisted by an attorney or another person in explaining their position at their own cost. 

 

The default IDR procedure of section 5915 can be useful for some associations and their members.  However, others may find that by instead adopting association-specific, reasonable and legally compliant IDR procedures, several important objectives can be accomplished.  Continue reading...

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For nearly 29 years, the attorneys of Epsten Grinnell & Howell have practiced community association law and provided common interest developments with counsel, legal strategies, rapid assessment recovery, construction defect and other civil litigation assistance, interpretation of fair housing issues, and alternative dispute resolution throughout Southern California. 

We serve associations throughout San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange and Los Angeles counties. Our attorneys have recovered more than $250 million for clients in complex construction defect litigation cases, including community associations, condominium towers and commercial buildings.
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