Baker Manock & Jensen’s industry expertise is known throughout the Central Valley. Responsive and always putting your business first, we can handle all your legal needs.

Agribusiness

  • Drafting and negotiating contracts and leases
  • Handling real estate transactions and financings
  • Advising on employment matters
  • Maintaining corporate minutes and stock book
  • Negotiating and litigating disputes, including intellectual property infringements and anti-trust issues
  • Obtaining appropriate licenses and permits
  • Tax advice
  • Counseling on environmental issues
  • Estate planning for the business owners and executives
  • Structuring operations to maximize federal benefits
  • Compliance with Bureau of Reclamation regulations
  • Compliance with Farm Service Agency rules and procedures
  • Cooperative matters, including tax issues and the anti-trust exemption
  • Water rights due diligence
  • Advising on compliance with water rights and water quality laws, rules and regulations

Construction

  • Enforcement of rights of Mechanics Liens, Stop Notices, Payment Bonds, and Performance Bonds
  • Pre-Liens
  • Home Improvement Contracts
  • Commercial Construction Contracts
  • Construction Defect Litigation
  • Licensing issues
  • Advising general contractors, sub-contractors, and homeowners before, during, and after construction projects

Distributors & Dealers

  • Drafting and negotiating contracts and leases
  • Handling real estate transactions and financings
  • Advising on employment matters
  • Maintaining corporate minutes and stock book
  • Negotiating and litigating disputes, including intellectual property infringements and anti-trust issues
  • Obtaining appropriate licenses and permits
  • Tax advice
  • Estate planning for the business owners and executives

Food Processors

  • Drafting and negotiating contracts and leases
  • Handling real estate transactions and financings
  • Advising on employment matters
  • Maintaining corporate minutes and stock book
  • Negotiating and litigating disputes, including intellectual property infringements and anti-trust issues
  • Obtaining appropriate licenses and permits
  • Tax advice
  • Counseling on environmental issues
  • Estate planning for the business owners and executives
  • Special knowledge and experience handling allegations of contamination

Manufacturing, Energy & Transportation

  • Drafting and negotiating contracts and leases
  • Handling real estate transactions and financings
  • Advising on employment matters
  • Maintaining corporate minutes and stock book
  • Negotiating and litigating disputes, including intellectual property infringements and anti-trust issues
  • Obtaining appropriate licenses and permits
  • Tax advice
  • Counseling on environmental issues
  • Estate planning for the business owners and executives

Property Development & Management

  • Negotiating and drafting contracts, leases, and sales and option agreements
  • Representation before planning commissions, governmental boards, and governmental staff
  • Negotiation and litigation of disputes
  • Tax advice
  • Counseling on environmental issues
  • Special knowledge and experience in finding solutions to your water supply needs

Physicians

We help physicians and their medical groups with their general legal matters, such as:

  • Drafting and negotiating contracts and leases
  • Handling real estate transactions and financings
  • Advising on employment matters
  • Maintaining corporate minutes and stock book
  • Negotiating and litigating disputes
  • Providing tax advice
  • Defending physicians against claims of professional negligence
  • Defending physicians and nurses against Medical Board actions
  • Helping physicians with their estate planning

Other Professionals

We help professionals with their general legal matters, such as:

  • Drafting and negotiating contracts and leases
  • Handling real estate transactions and financings
  • Advising on employment matters
  • Maintaining corporate minutes and stock book
  • Negotiating and litigating disputes
  • Providing tax advice
  • Defending professionals against claims of professional negligence, and helping them in investigations by their licensing board
  • Helping professionals with their estate planning

Investors and Retirees

  • We help you with your contracts, leases, and real estate transactions.
  • We provide estate planning services, including the preparation of wills, living trusts, durable powers of attorney, and advance health care directives.
  • We counsel you about other estate planning techniques, such as family limited partnerships, personal residence trusts, installment sales, and grantor retained annuity trusts.
  • We help you with the legal, tax, and practical issues of trust administration, probate administration, and conservatorships.
  • We can prosecute lawsuits on your behalf, for personal injuries, fraud, or elder abuse.
  • We help you structure your charitable giving to maximize tax benefits.

Services Offered

Governing Board

  • Ralph M. Brown Act compliance
  • Conflicts of interest and disclosure statements
  • Public Records Act and privacy issues
  • Governing Board regulations and policies
  • Legislative issues

Real Property

  • Acquisition, development, and disposition of real property
  • CEQA and zoning issues
  • LAFCO Law
  • Purchase and sale agreements, leasing and easement issues
  • Eminent domain litigation

Employment

  • Development and implementation of personnel policies
  • Employment agreements
  • Employee discipline and litigation

Public Contracts

  • Negotiation and drafting of contracts for public improvements, professional services, and other operating requirements
  • Compliance with competitive bidding laws
  • Contract disputes and construction claims, including arbitration, litigation and alternative dispute resolution

Business and Financial Issues

  • Imposition of fees, assessments and taxes
  • General counsel representation on financing mechanisms, including bonds and certificates of participation

Environmental Regulations

  • Counseling and litigation services in a wide array of environmental issues, including water quality, wastewater discharge, air quality, toxics, and CEQA

Water Law

  • General Counsel to irrigation districts, water districts, flood control districts and levee districts
  • Formation and reorganization of districts
  • Negotiating water supply agreements
  • Advising on compliance with water rights, water quality, and environmental rules and regulations
  • Advising and litigating numerous water rights issues in both state and federal courts