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

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

Tribes and Tribal Members

  • We have experience with, and knowledge of, sovereign immunity as it affects tribes and their members.
  • We have substantial experience in advising tribal members about their California income tax liabilities, and negotiating with the Franchise Tax Board on members’ behalf.

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

  • Formation and reorganization of Districts
  • Negotiation of long-term water supply contracts with state and local agencies as well as with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation

General counsel to public agencies

  • Litigation of numerous water rights issues in both state and federal courts
  • Advising clients in connection with issues arising under the Federal Endangered Species Act