Mar 10: "Top Ten Tips to Help You and Your Officers Avoid Litigation" seminar in Desert Hot Springs. Speakers: Kim Colwell and Kevin Gilbert. For more information contact city attorney, Ruben Duran

Mar 11: Visit us at the California Redevelopment Association's Annual Conference in Pasadena. We'll be in Booth No. 207. For information about the Conference and to register, visit the CRA website.

Mar 16: Climate Action Plans help local governments promote sustainable communities through programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This topic will be covered in "Creating Green Cities: Action Planning for Sustainability" at the Green California Summit at the Sacramento Convention Center. The panel presentation includes Tim Cremin and Hon. Mark Green, mayor of Union City. For program and registration information, visit the Summit website.

Recent legal developments provide guidance to analyze environmental impacts of greenhouse gases for land use projects under the CEQA. Read article authored by Tim Cremin.

Meyers Nave is proud to be a founding member of the Guardians of Justice Campaign.

Meyers Nave's win in Retired Employees Association of Orange County v. County of Orange featured in the Daily Journal's Top Defense Verdicts of 2009. Read Daily Journal article.

Thanks in part to a brief written by Meyers Nave attorneys Joseph Quinn and Nancy Thorington, the U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it will hear City of Ontario v. Quon. Read the press release "Supreme Court to Hear Case Following Brief Written by Meyers Nave." Read about this case on the LOCC website.

Art Hartinger and Geoff Spellberg successfully defended the City of Tracy against a wrongful termination suit brought by Tracy's former head of personnel, Kathy McFall. Read the article, "Jury hands Tracy victory in wrongful firing lawsuit" published by the Tracy Press.

On the heels of their victorious settlement in the Vidrio Development matter for the City of Pittsburg, Ruthann G. Ziegler and Kevin Gilbert authored an article for the Daily Journal discussing the creative solutions that government agencies can implement when redevelopment projects are abandoned. Click here to read the Daily Journal article titled, "Jump-starting Stalled Redevelopment Projects."